estrada set 1 & 2 Flashcards
Otherwise known as the Labor Code of the Philippines. This policy issuance institutes consolidated labor and social laws to afford protection to labor, promote employment and human resources development and insure industrial peace based on social justice.
Presidential Decree No. 442
An act strengthening compliance with occupational safety and health (OSH) standards and providing penalties for violations
thereof.
Republic Act No. 11058
This policy issuance defines and enumerates the implementing rules and regulations of the act strengthening compliance with
OSH standards.
DOLE Department Order No. 198, s. 2018
This entity shall set and enforce mandatory occupational safety and health standards to eliminate or reduce occupational safety and health hazards in all workplaces.
DOLE Secretary
This entity is responsible for the conduct of continuing studies and research to develop innovative methods, techniques, and approaches for dealing with occupational safety and health problems.
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)
This entity shall be solely responsible for the administration and enforcement of OSH laws, regulations and standards in all establishments and workplaces.
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)
This entity may collect reasonable fees for the inspection of steam boilers, pressure vessels and pipings and electrical installations, the test and approval for safe use of materials, equipment and other safety devices and the approval of plans for such materials, equipment, and devices
DOLE Secretary
Any person trained and duly certified to administer first aid by the Philippine Red Cross or any organization authorized by DOLE Secretary.
First Aider
A qualified first-aider, nurse, dentist, or physician engaged by the employer to provide occupational health services in the establishment, project, site, or workplace.
OSH personnel
A qualified Safety Officer 4 or its equivalent, duly certified by DOLE to perform and/or render consultative services on Occupational Safety and health in at least two (2) fields of specialization ask determined by DOLE.
OSH consultant
A qualified Safety Officer 3 or its equivalent, duly certified by DOLE to render Occupational Safety and health services in a defined and specific scope or core competency
OSH Practitioner
A set of rules issued by DOLE which mandates the adoption and use of appropriate practices, means, methods operations or processes, and working conditions reasonably necessary to ensure safe and healthful employment.
OSH standards
A regular and critical examination of project sites, safety programs, records, and management performance on program standards on safety and health conducted by the safety officer.
Safety and health audit
A body created within the workplace tasked with the authority to plan, develop and implement OSH policies and programs, monitor, and evaluate the OSH program, and inspect and investigate all aspects of the work pertaining to the safety and health of workers.
Safety and health committee
A set of detailed rules to govern company policies, processes, and practices in all economic activities to conform with OSH standards, including the personnel responsible, and penalties for any violation thereof.
Safety and health program
Establishments, projects sites, and all other places where work is being undertaken wherein the number of employees, nature of operations, and the risks or hazards involved in the business required compliance with the provisions of RA 11058.
Covered workplace
A workplace where there is low level of danger or exposure to safety and health hazards and not likely or with low probability to result in accident, harm or injury, or illness.
Low-risk establishment
A workplace where there is moderate exposure to safety and health hazards and with probability of an accident, injury or illness, if no preventive or control measures are in place.
Medium- Risk Establishment
A workplace, like construction sites, wherein the presence
of hazard or potential hazard within the company may affect
the safety and/or health of workers not only within but also
persons outside the premises of the workplace. There is a high
level of exposure to safety and health hazards, and
probability of a major accident resulting to disability or death,
or major illness is likely to occur if no preventive or control
measures are in place.
High-Risk Establishment
Specialized clothing or equipment designed to protect workers against safety and health hazards that may cause serious workplace injuries and illness, i.e., protection for the body, eyes, head, face, hands, feet, ears, etc.
Personal protective equipment
COLOR: to call attention to fire protection equipment
apparatus and facilities.
red
COLOR: designating safety
green
COLOR: white, black, or a combination of these for
designation of traffic and housekeeping
Traffic
COLOR: to designate caution and for marking physical
hazards.
yellow
COLOR: to designate dangerous parts of machines or energized equipment which may cause injury/hazard
orange
COLOR: to designate caution limited to warning against starting, use of, or movement of equipment under repair or being worked upon.
blue
COLOR: to designate radiation hazards
purple
Primary cause of accident that is characterized by the human action that departs from a standard or written job procedure or common practice, safety rules, regulations, or instructions.
Unsafe act
The physical or chemical property of a material, machine or the
environment which could result in injury to a person, damage or destruction to property or other forms of losses.
Unsafe condition
A risk associated with poorly guarded or dangerous equipment and machinery that may cause injury
Safety hazard
A risk associated with exposure to dangerous substance or conditions that may cause illness/ disease.
Health hazard
In demolition safety, this control is characterized by ensuring separation between the public and the demolition activities.
Elimination
Which control is demonstrated by the use of power shears, in place of grinding or oxy-acetylene cutting, where there is a risk of fire?
Substitution
Installation of scaffolds, platforms, guardrails, shoring and bracing to support loads are examples of this type of risk control
Engineering control
This type of risk control includes limiting the amount of time a person is exposed to a particular hazard, implementing safe working procedures for all hazardous tasks, and training all personnel.
Administrative control
An engineering control or set of PPEs prevents you from falling like guardrails, covers, restraints, etc.
Fall protection system