Mid Term

Question 1

What is a safety hazard?

Answer 1

Actue effects of hazards or sudden reaction like a hand guard on a grinding wheel.

Question 2

What is a health hazard?

Give an Example.

Answer 2

Chronic effects of hazards or long term deterioration due to prolonged exposure to a milder adverse condition.

Asbestos

Question 3

What is a safety and health hazard? What is the decibels?

Answer 3

Noise in the workplace. 90-100 decibel amd a sudden 200 decibel single sound.

Question 4

What are some roles of a safey manager?

Answer 4

Security, personal manager, Liason, Legal department staff.

Question 5

What are some standard institutes and trade associations?

Answer 5

ANSI (American national stanfards institute)
NFPA (National Fire Protection Agency)
API (American Petroleum Institute)
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)

Question 6

What are some government agencies?

Answer 6

NIOSH (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health)
OSHA
CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission)

Question 7

When were the first workers compensation laws introduced and was it originally called?

Answer 7

1909 and it was called Workmens compensation laws

Question 8

Whose duty is it to implement the workers compensation system within the plant?

Answer 8

The safety and health manager

Question 9

Who pays workers compensation?

Answer 9

The insurance

Question 10

Self insured companies use consultants referred to as???

Answer 10

Loss - Control Representative

Question 11

What does a Loss - Control Representative do?

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

What is considered first aid and will it be recorded if given?

Answer 12

It is a one time treatment and subsequent observation minor stuff.

First aid will not be recorded

Question 13

What type of injury becomes a recordable?

Answer 13

Any injury that involves loss of consciousness, restriction of work or motion or transfer to another job.

Question 14

What do the following acronyms stand for?
TRC
LWDI
DART
DAFWII

Answer 14

Total recordable cases
Lost Workday Cases Incident rate
Days Away restricted rate
Days Away from Work Injury and Illness Case Rate

Question 15

What is the “Tip of the iceberg?”

Answer 15

Direct costs (premium and directly identified costs are under the tip)

Question 16

What costs are UNDER the “Tip of the iceberg?”

Answer 16

Cost of training new employee

Investigations/Audits, overtime costs.

Question 17

Match the following percentages to their respective cause:
88%
10%
2%

Answer 17

Unsafe Acts
Unsafe Conditions
Unsafe Causes

Question 18

What are the Three Lines of Defense?

Answer 18

1. Engineering controls
2. Administrative or work practice controls
3. PPE

Question 19

What are the three fail safe principles?

Answer 19

General fail-safe principle
Fail safe principle of redundancy
Principle of worst case

Question 20

What is an OSHA Horizontal and Vertical Standard?

Answer 20

Horizontal is generalized standards by Hazards

Vertical standard is for each specific industry

Question 21

In the 19080’s the Righ to Know did what?

Answer 21

Created MSDS, labels for haxardous materials, helped employers spread information of hazards to employees which shifted some responsibility to the hands of employees.

Question 22

What does Hazard Communication Standard do for manufacturing?

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

What is some info that can be found MSDS

Answer 23

First aid measures, fire fighting measures, handling and storage, ecological info, regulatory information, hazard identification.

Question 24

When is a medical surveillance program required?

Answer 24

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!

Question 25

When are medical examinations performed?

Answer 25

Annually, upon termination of hazardous duty unless one was completed within the last 6 months, completed prior to assignment to hazardous exposure.

Question 26

What are the 7categories of process safety?

Answer 26

Relief system design
Ventilation 
Design codes and standards 
Material and energy balances
Interlocks
Detection systems
Supression systems

Question 27

Were employers required to do background checks on contractors prior and after the 1989 disaster? What does the background check now include?

Answer 27

Prior to this incident, no, but after, yes.

Includes: safety record check, periodic evaluations required to inspect contractors job within with respect to OSHAs process safety standards.

Question 28

Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) describes what? And what is the new term.

Answer 28

This term was used to describe all worker related conditions of this type: carpal tunnel, rotor cuff syndrome, trigger finger, tendinitis and the new term is now called: Work Related Musculoskeletal disorders

Question 29

What does poison attack and what is the most common?

Answer 29

It attacks organs or systems of organs and hydrocarbons and lead are the most common.

Question 30

What are 2 routes of Entry for poison? They both start with the letter “I”

Answer 30

Ingestion and inhalation.

Question 31

What are the main air contaminants? There are 4

Answer 31

Gas
Vapor
Mist
Dust

Question 32

What is a PEL

Answer 32

Permissable exposure limit; A maximum exposure level as stated in a regulatory standard.

Question 33

What does TWA stand for and what does it measure?

Answer 33

Time weighted average concentration over an 8 hour shift. it is the most popular measure of air contaminant exposure.

Question 34

What are the 4 basic measure approaches to measure air contaminant exposure?

Answer 34

Direct reading instruments
Sampling with detector tubes
Sampling with subsequent lab analysis
Dosimeter

Question 35

What size are particles on the nanometer?

Answer 35

10 to -6mm