Risk Management Flashcards

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3 Most commonly used Risk management Frameworks in Canada

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CSA-Q850
Health Canada - Health protection branch: risk determination
Treasury board of canada: framework for risk management

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2
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This ISO standard is the national standard for risk management

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ISO 31000

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3
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PACED

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Proportionate
Aligned
Comprehensive
Embedded
Dynamic

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4
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Risk Management frameworks for an organization must involve: (IDIEI)

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Integration
Designing
Implementing
Evaluating
Improving

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5
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The practical steps of Risk Management Process (IAET)

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Identification
Analysis
Evaluation
Treatment

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6
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Factors that influence likelihood of risk are:

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Nature of the exposure
How a person is exposed
Severity of the effect

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7
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The American Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that to implement ALAR, you need to consider the 3 basic protective measures in radiation safety.

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Time
Distance
Shielding

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8
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The ALARP Level is reached when the time, trouble and cost of further reduction measures become unreasonably disproportionate to the risk reduction blank

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obtained

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9
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The quantitative risk analysis method was developed in 1917 by …

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Henry Gantt, in the form of a gantt chart

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10
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This ‘provides a practical means of ranking the overall severity of a risk by multiplying the likelihood of risk occurrence against the impact of the risk, should it occur’.

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Risk Analysis

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11
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This technique is a form of risk brainstorming. It makes use of expert opinion.

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Delphi technique

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12
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This analysis ‘structured what-if technique’ is a simplified version of HAZOP. It applies a systematic team bsed approach in a workshop where the changes to an approved design (for example) may effect a project through a series of what’if considerations

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SWIFT Analysis

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13
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This is one of the most practical techniques in helping identify risk mitigations. It looks at a risk event and then projects this in two directions. Potential causes and potential consequences.

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Bow tie technique

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14
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This simulation (MC) is a computerized mathematical technique that allows people to account for risk in a quantitative analysis and decision making.

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Monte Carlo simulation

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15
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This analysis is most often used to help determine the best course of action wherever there is uncertainty in the outcome of events or proposed plans

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Decision tree analysis

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16
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this is defined as a control measure that is crucial to preventing an event or mitigating the consequences of the event.

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Critical control

17
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CCOHS hierarchy of controls

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Elimination (including substitution)
Engineering
Administrative
PPE

18
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CSA Hierarchy of controls

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Elimination (including substitution)
Engineering
Systems
Administrative
PPE

19
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This is the coordinated and comprehensive set of strategies which include programs, policies, benefits, environmental supports and links to the surrounding community.

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Workplace Health Programs

20
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Workplace health PROMOTION programs, are also known as?

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Workplace wellness programs

21
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Developed by the Canadian Public Health Association, the Health promotion framework, sometimes referred to as blank, helps us formulate ways of dealing with day to day health issues.

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Jake Epp Model

22
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IWHM

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Integrated Workplace health Management program

23
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This is a dynamic balance of physcial, emotional, social, spiritual and intellectual health.

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Optimal health

24
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For every 1$ spent on creating a mentally healthy workplace, it can on average, result in a positive return on investment of…

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2.30$

25
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The 4 essential elements of effective workplace programs and policies for improving worker health and wellbeing

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Org Culture and Leadership
Program design
Program implementation and resources
Program evaluation

26
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Types of crises to consider:

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Financial
Personnel
Organizational
Technological
Natural

27
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This refers to the orderly line of authority within the ranks of the response.

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Chain of command

28
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Biological agents can cause three types of disease:

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Infections
Allergies
Poisoning

29
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Electricity can be blank or blank

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Static or dynamic

30
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The following factors determine the severity of the effects of electric shock

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Level of voltage
Amount of body resistance
the Path the current takes
the length of time the current flows

31
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This is defined as ‘any electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, chemical, nuclear, thermal, gravitational, or other energy that can harm personnel’.

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Hazardous energy

32
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The hazards at work that we need to be concerned with are the ones with the aspects of work and situations that may cause a stress response which in turn can cause a stress response which can lead to psychological or physical harm. THese often stem from what 3 things?

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Organizational Context
Work/Task demands
individual