Common Core: General Safety Fundamentals Flashcards
Define Risk
The probability and severity of accident or loss from exposure to hazards.
Define Hazard
Any condition with the potential to negatively impact mission accomplishment or cause injury, death, or property damage.
What is ORM?
Operational Risk Management: reduce or offset risk by systematically identifying hazards, assessing and controlling risk, and making decisions based on weighing risk against mission benefits.
What are the four principles of ORM
- Accept risk when benefits outweigh the cost.
- Accept no unnecessary risk.
- Anticipate and manage risk by planning
- Make risk decisions at the right level.
What are the five steps of ORM?
- Identify Hazards
- Assessing Hazards
- Making Risk Decisions
- Implementing Controls
- Supervising
Four ways to implement controls in ORM
Engineering Controls
Administrative Controls
Personal Protecting Equipment
Supervising
Definition of Hazard Severity
An assessment of the worst credible consequence that can occur as a result of hazard.
Hazard Class I
Hazard may cause death, loss of facility/asset or result in grave damage to national interests.
Hazard Class II
Hazard may cause severe injury, illness, and property damage, damage to national or service interests or degradation to efficient use of assets.
Hazard Class III
Hazard may cause minor injury, illness, property damage, damage to national, service or command interests or degradation to efficient use of assets.
Hazard Class IV
Hazard presents a minimal threat to personnel safety or health, property, or other national interests.
Mishap Probability
The probability that a hazard will result in a mishap or loss.
Mishap Sub-Category A
Likely to occur immediately or within a short period of time
Mishap Sub-Category B
Probably will occur in time.
Mishap Sub-Category C
May occur in time.
Mishap Sub-Category D
Unlikely to occur.