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Farm Machinery Training & Testing Institutes Human Engineering, Ergonomics & Safety: practice questions

Farm Machinery Training & Testing Institutes (Budni, Hisar, Anantapur, Biswanath Chariali) · India · Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India

Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papers
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15written to this exam in this subject
7syllabus units

About Farm Machinery Training & Testing Institutes

Farm Machinery Training & Testing Institutes (Budni, Hisar, Anantapur, Biswanath Chariali) is a professional certification run by Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India, for candidates in India. Not an exam: short training courses and machinery testing (commercial, batch, confidential, CMVR).

Official site: nerfmtti.nic.in.

We have not been able to confirm these details against the exam body's own specification, so fees, dates and pass marks are left out on purpose. Check the current format, eligibility, fees and dates on the official site.

Human Engineering, Ergonomics & Safety in Farm Machinery Training & Testing Institutes

Designing machines around the people who use them, and measuring the noise, vibration and work load they face.

Our 15 Farm Machinery Training & Testing Institutes questions in this subject: 1 easy, 11 medium, 3 hard, across 7 units.

10 practice questions, worked

Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.

These 10 were written to Farm Machinery Training & Testing Institutes and are not shown on any other exam's page.

Question 1 · medium

Seat width is designed from

  1. popliteal height of large users
  2. hip breadth of small users
  3. hip breadth of large users plus a clothing allowance
  4. shoulder breadth of small users
Answer and working

C. hip breadth of large users plus a clothing allowance

Width is a clearance, so the large user governs, with an allowance for clothing. Small-user values would make the seat too narrow for many operators.

Question 2 · medium

In tractor standards, the seat index point (SIP) is used as

  1. the reference from which control positions and the ROPS clearance zone are set
  2. the point at which seat vibration is measured on the cab floor beneath the operator
  3. the centre of gravity of the operator and seat
  4. the point where the seat belt is anchored to the floor of the operator's platform
Answer and working

A. the reference from which control positions and the ROPS clearance zone are set

SIP is a seat reference point located with a standard loading device; control locations and the protective-structure clearance zone are dimensioned from it. It is not the belt anchorage or the floor measurement point.

Question 3 · medium

With a grain dryer running, the level at the operator's position is 92 dB; with it switched off, the background is 86 dB. The noise of the dryer alone is about

  1. 89.0 dB
  2. 92.0 dB
  3. 90.7 dB
  4. 6.0 dB
Answer and working

C. 90.7 dB

L = 10 log(10^9.2 − 10^8.6) = 90.74 dB. Subtracting 86 from 92 arithmetically gives 6 dB; subtracting 3 dB assumes equal sources; ignoring background overstates the machine. Subtracting 3 dB gives 89.0 dB.

Question 4 · medium

In controlling tractor noise exposure, the measure generally regarded as most effective is

  1. noise control at the source
  2. issuing earplugs to drivers (receiver protection)
  3. putting a warning sign on the fender
  4. limiting the time each driver operates
Answer and working

A. noise control at the source

The hierarchy puts source control first, then path (sealed cabs), then receiver measures such as time limits and hearing protectors, which depend on consistent use.

Question 5 · medium

A personal sampler draws 2.2 L/min for 8 hours during grain handling and the filter gains 0.84 mg. The time-weighted dust concentration is about

  1. 47.7 mg/m³
  2. 0.00080 mg/m³
  3. 0.80 mg/m³
  4. 6.36 mg/m³
Answer and working

C. 0.80 mg/m³

Volume = 2.2 L/min × 480 min = 1056 L = 1.056 m³; C = 0.84/1.056 = 0.795 mg/m³. Using 8 as minutes gives 47.7; using one hour gives 6.36; leaving volume in litres gives a per-litre figure mislabelled per m³. Leaving volume in litres gives 0.00080.

Question 6 · medium

A farm worker in hot weather becomes confused and collapses, with hot skin and a very high body temperature. The correct interpretation is

  1. heat cramps from salt loss, treated by rest in the shade and oral salt intake only
  2. mild heat rash
  3. normal fatigue that resolves after a meal
  4. heat stroke, a medical emergency needing immediate cooling and medical help
Answer and working

D. heat stroke, a medical emergency needing immediate cooling and medical help

Altered mental state with high core temperature indicates heat stroke, which can be fatal. Heat cramps involve muscle cramps with normal mental state.

Question 7 · medium

Among the OECD Standard Codes for tractor testing, the static test of protective structures and the measurement of noise at the driver's position are, respectively,

  1. Code 4 and Code 5
  2. Code 1 and Code 2
  3. Code 2 and Code 3
  4. Code 5 and Code 4
Answer and working

A. Code 4 and Code 5

Code 4 covers the static test of protective structures and Code 5 driver-position noise; Code 2 is the performance test. Other codes cover dynamic ROPS tests and narrow-track and tracklaying tractors.

Question 8 · easy

An interlocked guard is one that

  1. can be removed only with a tool
  2. keeps the body away by distance only
  3. is adjusted by the operator to the size of each workpiece fed in
  4. stops the machine while open
Answer and working

D. stops the machine while open

An interlock links the guard position to the machine control. A tool-removable guard is a fixed guard; distance and adjustable guards are other types.

Question 9 · hard

In a static ROPS test, the essential pass criterion throughout loading is that

  1. no part of the structure enters the clearance zone defined relative to the seat index point
  2. the tractor's engine keeps running
  3. the structure absorbs exactly the tractor's kinetic energy at 30 km/h before the first crack appears
  4. the structure does not deform at all
Answer and working

A. no part of the structure enters the clearance zone defined relative to the seat index point

ROPS are designed to deform and absorb energy; what matters is that the survival (clearance) zone around the seated operator is preserved, and that the structure meets the specified energy and overload requirements.

Question 10 · medium

A known hazard for women operating threshers and PTO-driven machines, which designers and trainers must address, is

  1. excessive grip diameter of sickle handles
  2. hearing loss from hand tools such as sickles, khurpis and spades used over long hours each day
  3. entanglement of loose clothing such as saris or dupattas in shafts and feed openings
  4. sunburn from reflective paint applied to the thresher body to improve visibility
Answer and working

C. entanglement of loose clothing such as saris or dupattas in shafts and feed openings

Loose clothing can be caught by rotating parts and pull the wearer in; guards over shafts and belts and training on clothing are required.

A study plan for Human Engineering, Ergonomics & Safety in Farm Machinery Training & Testing Institutes

This plan follows where our questions actually fall, so the time goes where the marks are likely to be. It is our reading of the syllabus, not the exam body's weighting.

  1. First, the heavy units (60% of the 15 questions): Safety standards and ROPS (4, 27%); Vibration: transmissibility and damping (3, 20%); Design of controls and seats (2, 13%).

    Read the manual chapters for these first and do every worked question you can find on them.

  2. Then the middle band: Dust and thermal stress (2, 13%); Noise: decibels and exposure (2, 13%); Anthropometry (1, 7%).

    Aim for one sitting per unit, then mixed questions across them.

  3. Then the lighter units: Tools designed for women workers (1, 7%).

    Learn the definitions, classifications and standard numbers; these units are more often recalled than worked.

  4. Leave time for the hard ones: Anthropometry (1 hard of 1), Vibration: transmissibility and damping (1 hard of 3), Safety standards and ROPS (1 hard of 4).

    Come back to these after a first pass, untimed, and read every explanation, including for the options you rejected.

  5. Bank the easy marks: Safety standards and ROPS (1 easy of 4).

    Do these early in revision so they are fast on the day.

  6. Finish timed. Sit the subject as a timed set without notes, mark it, and send each wrong answer back to its unit above.

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