Leadership for Safety Excellence Flashcards
- Recognize three essential actions of an effective safety leader. (p.6)
Mentoring
Motivating
Monitoring
- Recognize three goals of corporate culture. (p.8)
Workers:
Hold safety as a value
Take responsibility for their own safety and the safety of others
Willing to act on their own sense of responsibility
- Describe three main sources of supervisor health and safety responsibilities. (p.9)
Company H&S Program
Safety Team
Safety Tasks
- Identify common purposes of the three main components of Alberta’s OHS legislation. (p.11)
OHS ACT - permits government to legally regulate an area/assigns obligations to people or organizations
OHS Regulation - clarifies some items from the Act
OHS Code - assigns specific responsibilities to individuals/describes actions to be taken by individuals/outlines specific procedures to be followed/references adopted standards from other organizations
- Describe the obligations of a supervisor under the OHS Act. (p.12)
Take all precautions to protect the health and safety of workers they are supervising
Ensure that workers under their supervision are in compliance with the OHS Act, Reg and Code
Ensure none of the workers are subjected to or participate in violence or harassment
Report any unsafe or harmful work site act to employer
Cooperate with anyone exercising a duty imposed by the Act, Regulation or Code
- Identify the three groups that make up a company’s safety team. (p.19)
Management
Supervisors
Workers
- Recognize one responsibility for each group on a company’s safety team. (p.19)
Management - ensure an H&S program is established
Supervisors - mentor by working with others to do their work in a safe way
Workers - participate in training, hazards assessments, inspections
- Describe the three types of supervisor safety tasks. (p.20)
Pre-job planning considerations
Scheduled or periodic tasks
Continuous or ongoing tasks
- Identify at least three best practices for a daily logbook entry. (p.21)
Indicate location or project, important times and date of entry
Include events that occurred on the date of entry
Contain facts of the events that occurred
Include people involved and their particular task or role in the event
Include decisions reached to resolve recorded issues
- State the two supervisor obligations related to hazard assessments. (p.23)
Must advise workers of all hazards that may impact their health and safety
Must report all unsafe or harmful acts and conditions to the employer
- State the two factors most risk assessment models evaluate. (P. 25)
Likelihood x Severity
- List the five steps in the site-specific hazard assessment process in the correct order. (p.27)
- List tasks
- Identify health and safety hazards
- Eliminate or control hazards
- Communicate the hazards and follow controls
- Repeat the process until f there is a change in conditions
- Identify the four contributing factors of hazards at a work site. (p.27)
People
Equipment
Materials
Environment
- Distinguish between hazards and outcomes. (p.30)
A hazard is what needs to be eliminated or controlled
An outcome is what could happen if the hazard is not eliminated or controlled
- Identify examples of controls used for each level of the hierarchy of controls. (p.32)
Engineering Controls
mechanical transport/lift, automation, enclosures, ventilation
Administrative Controls
safe job procedures/practices, safe work permits, code of practice, orientation, OTJ training
Personal Protective Equipment
hard hat, bump cap, hearing protection, gloves, glasses/goggles
