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Basic Safety Flashcards

1
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Who’s ultimate responsibility is it to keep you safe?

A

yourself

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2
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Subcontractor

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subs electrical or plumbing

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3
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experience modification rate (EMR)

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leads to winning more bids and keeping workers employed (lowers by a strong safety culture).

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4
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Worker’s Comp Insurance

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5
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Contractor - subcontractor -

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6
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audit

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keeps track of everyone that’s paid

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7
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Safety culture

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created when the whole company sees the value of a safe work environment

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8
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What causes accidents?

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  • Failure to communicate
  • Poor work habits
  • Alcohol or drug abuse
  • Lack of skill/experience
  • Intentional acts
  • Unsafe acts
  • Rationalizing risks (quick task completion, but not thinking about safety)
  • Unsafe conditions
  • Management system failure
  • Housekeeping (keep spaces clean)
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9
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Toolbox talks

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10
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Blue sign

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Information sign

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11
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Green sign

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Safety sign

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12
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Yellow/Orange and black sign

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Caution sign

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13
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Red and black sign

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Danger sign

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14
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OSHA and purpose

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  • Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  • Save lives
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15
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Retaliation

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  • Fire
  • Take off work hours (don’t need you tomorrow)
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16
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Competent person vs Qualified person

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  • has experience to carry out a certain task
  • has been trained via education, school
  • more clought will come from a competent person (they have to know risks, soil (cave-ins), etc.)
  • trust a competent person more than a qualified person
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17
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Record Keeping

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  • All accidents must be reported
  • worker comp
  • sounds silly, but still report in case of infection and festering
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18
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Hazard-Four

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Falls - #1 cause of accidents
Struck-by - hit by something
Caught in between - confined spaces and can’t move
Electrical - Shock

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19
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JSA - Job Safety Analysis and TSA - Task Safety Analysis

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  • Review tasks at hand and hazards
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20
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How do you protect yourself from falls?

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  • Fall protection: body harness and laniard attached
  • chains guard rails
  • 6ft or more above the ground fall protection is required
  • put a barricade on trenches
  • guard rails on places without windows and just a hole in the wall
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21
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How do you guard a hole in the ground?

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  • a cover plate must be able to hold 2 times the intended weight
  • Guard rails
  • Caution tape
  • fence
  • construction fences
  • caution that there’s a temporary cover
22
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What is the toeboard on a scaffold?

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prevents equipment/material from falling off the scaffold.

23
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Laniard info

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  • must have shock absorb
  • needs to be short enough to protect you from a fall
24
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Ladders

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  • have a weight length
  • Aluminum step ladder 300lbs
  • Fiberglass step ladder 375lbs
  • ladders are not all made the same
25
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What kind of ladder must be used when working with electricity?

A

Fiberglass step ladder

26
Q

volts to stop heart

A
27
Q

Where does electricity naturally want to go?

A

return back to the ground

28
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Step ladder and extension ladder

A

the safest standing height on the extension ladder is 4 rungs from the top
2 rungs from the top on step ladder is the safest
Get a bigger ladder is standign on the top of a step ladder.

29
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Ladder ratio

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4 to 1
every 4 ft on a wall the ladder must go out 1 foot

30
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ladder must extend 3 ft past the roof

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31
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one limb at a time on a ladder

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32
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Never climb a ladder carrying material instead pull the material up after climbing

A
33
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Self supporting scaffold

A
34
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Manufactured Scaffold

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35
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Rolling Scaffolds

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36
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Inspecting Scaffolds

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37
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Scaffolds have to be tagged

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  • green safe to climb
  • yellow usable, but use caution because it may be altered to complete a certain task
  • red do not use because it’s being put up or taken down
38
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On equipment vehicles

A
  • backup alarms must work
39
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every 25 ft, if the trench is 4 feet, there has to be a ladder or stairs (some way) for going in and out

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40
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Trench box
Bench/slope (excavate at an angle, or make a set of stairs)

A
  • protects workers as they work in a trench
  • The trench box has to be above the excavation
41
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Dirt being brought out

A

is called spoil

42
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Type A soil

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Cohesive soil that has a high unconfined compressive strength of 1.5 tons per square foot or greater. Examples: clay, silty clay, sandy clay, clay loam, and in some cases silty clay loam and sandy clay loam. Often used for gardening, farming, and construction projects that require a strong and stable foundation.

43
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Type B soil

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a soil that has medium stability and strength. It has an unconfined compressive strength of more than 0.5 tons per square foot (tsf) but less than 1.5 tsf. Examples: angular gravel, silt, silt loam, and some types of clay loam. Ofte n used for construction projects that do not require a very strong foundation.

44
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Type C soil

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least stable and productive soil. It has an unconfined compressive strength of 0.5 tons per square foot or less. Examples: gravel, sand, loamy sand, submerged soil, soil with seeping water, and unstable rock.
Not suitable for construction projects that require a strong foundation, and it poses a high risk of vace-ins or collapses in excavations.

45
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Access and Egress

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46
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Soil has to be 2 ft from the edge of the trench

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47
Q

How many amps of current does it take to kill somebody?

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less than 1 amp has the ability to kill somebody

48
Q

Use a chord wiht a ground wire

A

pass through ground not through body

49
Q

GFCI (ground fault circuit interrupter

A

trips before you get electrocuted

50
Q

When should you work on an energized circuit?

A

never; always disconnect power first

51
Q

Never use chords with cuts/revealed wire

A

must reinsulate the chord correctly in order to fix it.

52
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A

BC (7 decks)

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