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#1 - Unit A - Basics Flashcards

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Who is OSHA and what is its role?

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“Occupational Safety and health administration”

  • A Government agency of the US department of labor
  • To ensure safety in a workplace/ setting and enforcing standards by providing training, outreach, education, and assistance.
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Who is NIOSH?

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“National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health”

- Responsible for conducting research and make recommendations to osha

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What are employee rights on the job?

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  • Be in a safe workplace
  • Raise Safety or health concerns
  • Request an OSHA inspection of the workplace
  • File a complaint with OSHA
  • Participate or have an OSHA representative participate in the OSHA inspection
  • Request copies of personal medical records
  • Employer Provide training for dangerous jobs in an understandable language
  • Employer Provide fall protection
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How does an employee stay safe on the job?

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Following Safety Signs, rules, and regulations.

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What is PPE?

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Personal protective equipment

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PPE:

These are used for protection of the eyes against physical, chemical and biological hazards

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Protective glasses - PPE

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PPE:
They protect the doctor/assistant & patient from bacteria /viruses & other harmful pathogens and biological agents, via hands.

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Latex or vinyl gloves - PPE

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PPE:
Protects the patient and the attending
doctor/assistant from exchanging harmful airborne pathogens

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Surgical mask - PPE

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PPE:

Employees working in large animal production facilities and operating equipment, head protection.

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Hard hat - PPE

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PPE:

Includes work boots (livestock facilities) & surgical boots &disposable boots

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Protective Footwear - PPE

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PPE:
Often needed when operating loud and large
Equipment & animal production facilities

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Hearing protection - PPE

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PPE:

Necessary when working with harsh chemicals

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Respirator - PPE

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PPE:

Used when performing x-rays

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Lead apron - PPE

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Safety Sign:
required when people are working
in an area where there is a danger of foot injury

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Blue Protective footwear required Sign

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Safety Sign:

Required generally in veterinary sciences, refers to latex or vinyl gloves.

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Blue Protective gloves required Sign

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Safety Sign:
required in a location that is likely
to have substances like chemicals, biological hazards (e.g., blood, contaminated fluid) or objects enter the eye

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Blue Eye protection required Sign

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Safety Sign:

required in location has excessively loud noises that may damage the ear.

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Yellow/Blue Hearing protection required Sign

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Safety Sign:
Often required when the employee would be coming in contact with human or animal fluids, chemicals or other biological hazards. provides a protective barrier.

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Blue Lab coat required Sign

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Safety Sign:

Employees required to wash hands before and/or after leaving the location.

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Blue Hand washing required Sign

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Safety Sign:
Required in locations that are deemed more likely to have objects falling or locations in which a person could come in contact with objects that might cause head injury.

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Blue Hard hat required Sign

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Safety Station Sign:

marks the location in which a first aid kit can be found

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Red/White First aid station sign

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Safety Station Sign:

used to flush eyes if a harmful substance (e.g., chemical) or object enters the eye

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Green/White Eye wash station sign

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Safety Sign:

a risk to human health or the environment arising from biological work, especially with microorganisms.

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Yellow Biohazard Sign ☣️

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Safety Sign:
identifies a source or container of radioactive material or an area that may potentially have radiation exposure (e.g., x-ray room)

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Yellow-B/W Radioactive Sign ☢️

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Safety Sign: | This sign depicts presence of chemicals that are found in the location marked.
Yellow Chemical Sign
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Safety Sign: | for the protection of the dog and surrounding people
Yellow Dogs must be kept on a leash Sign
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Safety Sign: | Barb Wire Fence
Yellow and black triangle with barbed wire
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Safety Sign: | !
DANGER
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What are the different types of hazards?
- Biological Hazards: - Chemical Hazards: - Ergonomic Hazards: - Physical Hazards: - Safety Hazards: - Workplace Hazards:
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Define: | Biological Hazards
Composed of living organisms that pose a threat to other living organisms, usually humans - Virus - Fungi - Prions - Bacteria These are usually transmitted through blood, urine, and other bodily substances Should wear Gloves, gowns, eye protection
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Define: | Chemical Hazards
Toxic substances that can cause a wide range of health effects when humans were exposed to them. Effects range from mild irritation to death methods of absorption can include: - Absorption through skin or membranes - Inhalation - Ingestion Possible things include cleaners and disinfectants, And Agriculture crop chemicals! ALWAYS check chemical sheet!!
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Define: | Ergonomic Hazards
Injuries usually caused by repetitive work, being in an awkward position to perform physical tasks, lifting heavy objects, or a combination changes can include: - Correct posture to lift - Ergonomically friendly tools - Personal protective equipment
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Define: | Physical Hazards
Hazards caused by factors in the environment that can cause injury to the body without necessarily touching the body (environmental hazards) - Physical hazards may include ergonomic injuries - Loud noises - Radiation - Temperature extremes - Ultra-violet exposure
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Define: | Safety Hazards
Unsafe work conditions that may cause injury. - Unguarded machinery - Slips on wet floors - Electric shock - Forklift injury
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Define: | Workplace Hazards
These injuries from emotional and mental stressors can cause health problems, especially when the employee is exposed to them long-term. Examples include the following: - Harassment - Workplace violence - Workload demands
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The steps to properly wash your hands
- Wet hands with water - Apply enough soap to cover all hand surfaces - Rub hands palm to palm - Rub back of each hand with palm of other hand with fingers interlaced - Rub palms with fingers interlaced - Rub back of fingers with opposing palms with fingers interlocked - Rub each thumb clasped in opposite hand using a rotational movement - Rub tips of fingers in opposite palm in circular motion - Rub each wrist with the opposite hand. - Rise hands with water - Use elbow to turn off tap - Dry thoroughly with a single use towel; - Entire process should take 15-30 seconds
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The steps to a proper surgical scrub
- Basic hand wash - Remove all jewelry - Adjust the water temperature to warm - Open scrub packet & remove nail file - Remove scrub brush & apply hand wash - Scrub fingertips in a circular motion for 30 seconds per hand - Perform 10 strokes on each plane of each finger & between - Scrub the inside of the palm in a circular stroke for 10 strokes - Scrub top portion of the hand for 10 strokes in circular motion - Perform 10 circular strokes up the arm including 2in above elbow - Rinse arms & hands from fingertips to elbows - Dry normally in the operating room with a sterile towel - Keep arms in the elevated position
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What is an SDS?
"Safety Data Sheet" It Is made by companies that make possibly hazardous materials, such as chemicals to inform and educate buyers, employers, and employees.
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What 6 pieces of information can be found on a SDS?
- physical and chemical properties - physical and health hazards - routes of exposure - precautions for safe handling and use - emergency and first-aid procedures - control measures.
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How and why would you use an SDS?
Employers use the SDS’s to provide their employees that are exposed to hazardous chemicals with effective information and training. They are also used to keep the environment safe by alerting an employer of the effects a chemical might have on the environment.
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What is the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) and how is it helpful?
awareness on Health Hazards and Physical and environmental Hazards GHS also recommends that information should be included labels, outlined, and updated.
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(GHS) Signs: | - Gasses under pressure
Gas Cylinder Hazard sign
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(GHS) Signs: - Skin corrosion/burns - Eye damage - Corrosive to metals
Corrosion Hazard sign
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(GHS) Signs: - Explosives - Self- reactive - Organic peroxides
Exploding bomb Hazard sign
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(GHS) Signs: - Flammables - Pyrophoric - Self heating - Emits flammable gas - Self-reactive - Organic peroxides
Flame Hazard sign
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(GHS) Signs: | - Aquatic Toxicity
Environment Hazard sign
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(GHS) Signs: - Acute Toxicity - Fatal or toxic
Skull and crossbones Hazard sign
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(GHS) Signs: - Carcinogen - mutagenicity - reproductive toxicity
Health Hazards, Hazard sign
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(GHS) Signs: - Mammables - Pyrophoric - Self-heating - Oxidizers
Flame over Circle Hazard sign
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(GHS) Signs: - Irritant - skin sensitizer - acute toxicity - narcotic effects
Exclamation Mark Hazard sign
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Terms: | Ethology
the study of animal behavior
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Terms: | Behavior
an action performed in response to stimulus
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Terms: | Communication
signaling between one animal and another
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Terms: | Habituation
learning based on habit
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Terms: | Learning
the development of behaviors through experience
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Anima behaviors include:
- Resting - Playing - Courting/Reproducing - Eating/Foraging - Territory Marking - Offensive/Defensive
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Type of Communication: Animals use sounds to communicate danger, feeding locations, reproductive readiness and species recognition and to mark and defend territory.
Auditory communication
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Type of Communication: Breath odor, urine, feces and body odor play a role in olfactory communication. Individual odor recognition and release of pheromones trigger immediate behaviors.
Olfactory communication
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Type of Communication: Touch is used in social bonding, infant care, grooming, courtship and mating. Mutual grooming helps to solidify and promote bonding.
Tactile communication
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Type of Communication: | Visual messages may be communicated by a variety of means, such as color, posture, shape or movement.
Visual communication
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Type of Communication: The immediate physical surroundings of the animal include cleanliness, temperature, humidity, lighting and noise, exercise, human contact and social interaction, enclosure size and access to food.
Environmental communication
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Type of Communication: | An animal’s state of physical and mental well-being can contribute to normal and abnormal behaviors.
Health communication
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Type of Communication: The way an animal is raised affects its behavior. Early enrichment and exposure to common situations should be encouraged.
Experience communication
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Type of Communication: plays a role in basic temperament and behavioral characteristics. Animal breeders have long recognized heritability of basic temperaments in familial lines.
Genetic communication
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Animal handling and restraints: Dogs - Carrying an injured dog * Small Dog * Big Dog - Muzzling a dog * Normal Dog * Short nosed (Brachiocephalic) Dog - Administering Medication * Pill * Liquid/Paste in tube syringe - Methods of restraint * Lateral Recumbency * Sternal Recumbency * Standing Restraint - Using elizabethan collars
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Animal handling and restraints: Cats - Carrying an injured Cat * Under the arm * vertical and horizontal - Muzzling a cat - Administering Medication * Pill * Liquid/Paste in tube syringe - Methods of restraint * Lateral Recumbency (cat stretch) * Sternal Recumbency - Cat Burrito
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