CPE 045: Basic Occupational Health and Safety 1st Period: QUIZ 1.1 Flashcards
It is a discipline with a broad scope involving protecting and improving the health of people at their workplace.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
It deals with understanding the causes of accidents at work and ways to prevent unsafe act and unsafe conditions in any workspace.
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
A broad concept which explains how the different hazards and risks at work may cause an illness and emphasizes that health programs are essential in controlling work-related and/or occupational diseases.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
A source or situation with a potential to cause harm in terms of injury, ill health, damage to property, damage to the environment or a combination of these.
HAZARD
This is referred to as “any human action that violates a commonly accepted safe work procedure or standard operating procedure”.
UNSAFE / UNHEALTHY ACT
These are materials that ignite easily and burn rapidly at relatively low temperatures such as gasoline, alcohol and acetone.
FAMMABLE MATERIALS
. A condition where broken stairs, slippery surfaces, or loose cables create tripping hazards.
UNSAFE CONDITIONS
It is an unexpected, unforeseen, unplanned and unwanted occurrence or event that causes damage or loss of materials or properties, injury or death.
ACCIDENT
There are three classifications of accident, where does death, injury, pain, disease, damage, loss or fear belong to?
IMMEDIATE
The type of hazard that includes improper storage of combustible materials or faulty electrical wiring.
FIRE HAZARD
Accumulated clutter in a workspace that presents fire, tripping or health hazards.
POOR HOUSEKEEPING
This is defined as the physical or chemical property of a material, machine or the environment which could possibly cause injury to people, damage to property, disrupt operations in a plant or office or other forms of losses.
UNSAFE / UNHEALTHY CONDITION
This type of fire extinguisher can extinguish fire class A, B, C and D.
ABC FIRE EXTINGUISHER OR ABC POWDER
There are three classifications of accident, where does disability, suffering and lost income belong to?
LONG TERM
According to Herbert William Heinrich, there are three direct causes of accidents namely unsafe conditions, unsafe acts and ___________.
ACTS OF GOD or NON-PREVENTABLE
This type of fire results from igniting cooking oils or fats and requires specialized extinguisher.
CLASS K
Activities undertaken to create or maintain an orderly, clean, tidy and safe working environment.
WORKPLACE HOUSEKEEPING
This term describes the three elements – heat, fuel and oxygen that sustains a fire.
. FIRE TRAINGLE
Flammable materials such as paper, wood, or fabric are categorized as hazards under what fire class?
CLASS A
Open flame, smoking, hot surfaces and static charge are all sources of?
HEAT
These are materials that ignite easily and burn rapidly at relatively low temperatures such as gasoline, alcohol and acetone.
FAMMABLE MATERIALS
A source or situation with a potential to cause harm in terms of injury, ill health, damage to property, damage to the environment or a combination of these.
HAZARD
. A Japanese concept that aims to optimize time for production, is a very practical, simple and proven approach to improving housekeeping in a workplace.
5S
Failing to report hazard.
UNSAFE ACT
Accumulation of waste and debris.
HOUSEKEEPING
Using equipment for purposes other than intended.
UNSAFE ACT
. Improperly discarding smoking materials.
FIRE SAFETY
Operating machinery without proper training.
UNSAFE ACT
Overloading electrical circuits.
USAFE CONDITION
. Spills and leaks not cleaned up promptly.
HOUSEKEEPING
In adequate ventilation.
UNSAFE CONDITION
. Improper storage of flammable materials.
FIRE SAFETY
Cords and hoses running across walkways.
UNSAFE CONDITION
