Mid Term Flashcards
What is a safety hazard?
Actue effects of hazards or sudden reaction like a hand guard on a grinding wheel.
What is a health hazard?
Give an Example.
Chronic effects of hazards or long term deterioration due to prolonged exposure to a milder adverse condition.
Asbestos
What is a safety and health hazard? What is the decibels?
Noise in the workplace. 90-100 decibel amd a sudden 200 decibel single sound.
What are some roles of a safey manager?
Security, personal manager, Liason, Legal department staff.
What are some standard institutes and trade associations?
ANSI (American national stanfards institute)
NFPA (National Fire Protection Agency)
API (American Petroleum Institute)
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
What are some government agencies?
NIOSH (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health)
OSHA
CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission)
When were the first workers compensation laws introduced and was it originally called?
1909 and it was called Workmens compensation laws
Whose duty is it to implement the workers compensation system within the plant?
The safety and health manager
Who pays workers compensation?
The insurance
Self insured companies use consultants referred to as???
Loss - Control Representative
What does a Loss - Control Representative do?
Make employees feel like an outside entity is on their side, investigate all claims, uncover fradulent claims, keep lawsuits down and provides encouragement to the honest claimant.
What is considered first aid and will it be recorded if given?
It is a one time treatment and subsequent observation minor stuff.
First aid will not be recorded
What type of injury becomes a recordable?
Any injury that involves loss of consciousness, restriction of work or motion or transfer to another job.
What do the following acronyms stand for? TRC LWDI DART DAFWII
Total recordable cases
Lost Workday Cases Incident rate
Days Away restricted rate
Days Away from Work Injury and Illness Case Rate
What is the “Tip of the iceberg?”
Direct costs (premium and directly identified costs are under the tip)
What costs are UNDER the “Tip of the iceberg?”
Cost of training new employee
Investigations/Audits, overtime costs.
Match the following percentages to their respective cause:
88%
10%
2%
Unsafe Acts
Unsafe Conditions
Unsafe Causes
What are the Three Lines of Defense?
- Engineering controls
- Administrative or work practice controls
- PPE
What are the three fail safe principles?
General fail-safe principle
Fail safe principle of redundancy
Principle of worst case
What is an OSHA Horizontal and Vertical Standard?
Horizontal is generalized standards by Hazards
Vertical standard is for each specific industry
In the 19080’s the Righ to Know did what?
Created MSDS, labels for haxardous materials, helped employers spread information of hazards to employees which shifted some responsibility to the hands of employees.
What does Hazard Communication Standard do for manufacturing?
Required them and importers to label containers that they ship and provides MSDS for each hazardous chemical they produce or import and required them to maintain communication programa.
What is some info that can be found MSDS
First aid measures, fire fighting measures, handling and storage, ecological info, regulatory information, hazard identification.
When is a medical surveillance program required?
Employees may be exposed to health hazards dor 30 days or more; Employees wear a respirator for 30 days or more a year; employees designated by the employer plug, patch, or otherwise temporarily stops leaks from HAZMAT!
