About the HPSC Assistant Director Industrial Safety and Health Syllabus 2026
The Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) has released an announcement detailing the scheme, pattern, and syllabus for the Subject Knowledge Test for the post of Assistant Director Industrial Safety and Health. This information is crucial for candidates who applied against advertisement number 26/2022, which was published on 14 September 2022. The announcement, dated 11 August 2026, provides a comprehensive guide to the examination process.
Examination Scheme and Pattern
The selection process for the Assistant Director Industrial Safety and Health post includes a Subject Knowledge Test and an Interview. Here are the key details for the Subject Knowledge Test:
- Duration: 03 hours
- Language: English only
- Total Marks: 150
- Type: Subjective
- Qualifying Marks: Candidates must secure a minimum of 35% marks in the test to be eligible for the interview.
- Weightage: The Subject Knowledge Test carries a weightage of 87.5% in the final merit list.
Selection Process Overview
The recruitment process involves two main stages, each with a specific weightage:
- Subject Knowledge Test: This written examination is the primary assessment, accounting for 87.5% of the total selection weightage.
- Interview: Candidates who qualify the Subject Knowledge Test will be called for an interview. The number of candidates invited for the interview will be three times the total advertised posts, including any bracketed candidates, provided they meet the minimum cut-off marks. The interview carries a weightage of 12.5%.
Attendance at both the Subject Knowledge Test and the Interview is mandatory for all candidates. The final merit list will be prepared by combining the marks obtained in both stages.
Detailed Syllabus for Subject Knowledge Test
The syllabus for the Assistant Director Industrial Safety and Health post covers a wide range of topics, including skill development, management, engineering, and basic sciences.
1. National and International Scenario of Skill Development
This section covers the Vocational Education System in India, the Current National Policy on Skill Development, the objectives and need for skill development, recommendations from various committees on vocational education, and the overall scope of skill development.
2. Academic and Administrative Management
Topics include the organizational structure of Government ITIs, reporting systems, general administration, SWOT analysis, vision and mission, strategic planning, internal/external environment management, resource mobilization, library management, maintenance of academic facilities, problem-solving techniques, personal management, value analysis, and faculty norms.
3. Skill Development Schemes
This section focuses on various skill development schemes implemented by Central and State Governments. It includes the Craftsmen Training Scheme, Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF), State Skilling Schemes, Crafts Instructor Training Schemes (CITS), National Apprentice Promotion Schemes (NAPS), SANKALP Scheme, and STRIVE Scheme.
4. Engineering Mechanics and Engineering Drawing
Key concepts in engineering mechanics such as force systems, equilibrium of rigid bodies, free body diagrams, Lami's theorem, laws of Coulomb friction, belt friction, centre of gravity, and moment of inertia are covered. Stress and strain concepts, simple stresses (tensile, compressive, shear, bending, torsion), stress-strain curves, and elastic constants are also included. For engineering drawing, topics involve drawing equipment, instruments, conventions, dimensioning, scales, and theory of projection for planes and solids (Orthographic Projection).
5. Fundamentals of Thermal Science
This part of the syllabus introduces thermodynamics, properties, forms of energy, thermodynamic systems, steady flow systems, types of work, thermodynamic processes, laws of thermodynamics, and the Carnot theorem. It also covers the concept of enthalpy and entropy, an introduction to I.C. Engines (two-stroke, four-stroke S.I. and C.I. engines, Otto cycle, Diesel cycle), and basic ideas of refrigeration and air conditioning cycles.
6. Basic Knowledge on Workshop Science
This section delves into measuring instruments and gauges, manufacturing processes, basic terminology, material properties and their applications, different engineering materials, properties, nomenclature, and basics of heat treatment. Specific workshop practices covered include fitting (tools, measuring, marking, sawing, filing, tapping, die, drills), welding (electric arc, gas welding, soldering, brazing, types of sheets, tools used in sheet metal), and metal cutting (machine tools, cutting tools, basic operations on lathe, drilling, shaper, milling, cutting tool material, work-holding devices, cutting parameters). Casting (pattern types, moulding sand, properties, process, defects) is also included.
7. Basic Electrical Science
This section covers network laws and theorems for D.C. networks (Kirchhoff's laws, Superposition, Thevenin's, Norton's, Maximum Power Transfer). Single-phase A.C. circuits (EMF generation, form factor, peak factor, rms value, average value, phasor diagrams, resistive, inductive, capacitive circuits, RLC-series and parallel circuits, resonance, Q factor, three-phase A.C. circuits) are included. Magnetic circuits and transformers (analogy, B-H curve, hysteresis loop, inductances, hysteresis and eddy current losses, constructional details, EMF equation, rating, phasor diagram on no-load and loaded conditions) are also part of the syllabus. Electrical machines (three-phase induction motors, construction, principle, applications) and electrical instruments (basic principles of moving iron, PMMC, dynamometer, induction type instruments, torque equation, dynamometer type wattmeter) are also covered.
8. Basic Electronics & Communication Science
Topics include electronics instruments (CRO, CRT, semiconductor diodes and applications, PN junction diode, V-I characteristics, ideal diodes, LED, tunnel diode, photodiode), halfwave, fullwave and bridge rectifiers, passive filters, regulators, Zener diode, SMPS, Bipolar Junction Transistor, FET, MOSFET. Operational amplifiers (applications as summing amplifier, differentiator, integrator), digital electronics (number system, logic gates, NAND/NOR, SR/JK flip-flops) are also covered. Introduction to computers (generation, characteristics, classification, components, types of memory, software, operating system, algorithm, flow chart) and computer networks & communication (LAN, MAN, WAN, topologies, modes of data communication, internet, safeguards, router, switches, hub, bridges) are also part of the syllabus.
9. CIVIL
This section includes surveying instruments and their uses, various civil engineering surveys, building by-laws, properties and tests on construction materials (bricks, cement, course aggregate, steel reinforcement). Units of different fluid properties, types of fluid and flow, flow measurement, construction management techniques (bar chart, milestone, network CPM/PERT, construction equipment, notice inviting tender, administrative approval, technical sanction, specification). Test on water and waste water, environment protection act, sources of air pollution, National clean air program, types of dams and canals, rainfall measurement, safe bearing capacity of soil, methods of building estimates, and forms used in public works department are also covered.
Important Dates
The syllabus announcement was made on 11 August 2026. The original advertisement for this recruitment (No. 26/2022) was published on 14 September 2022. Candidates should refer to the official HPSC website for any further updates regarding exam dates or other stages of the recruitment.
