Risk Management Flashcards
What are the key components of the workplace violence prevention program (5 total)?
- a workplace violence prevention policy;
- violence risk assessment;
- violence risk control;
- worker education and training; and
- response to incidents.
What are the organizational measures can be summarized as the ‘four-C’s’ that support the development of a positive safety culture?
- Control
- Communication
- Cooperation
- Competence
What are the five components to the ICS organization?
Command: Setting response objectives and coordinating
Operations: Provision of tactical response actions
Planning: Developing and assessing the technical basis of the action plans
Logistics: The provision of equipment and services supporting the plan actions, and
Finance: Responsible for the management of financial resources and response administration
What factors increase risk for workplace violence (9 total)
- Contact with the public.
- Exchange of money.
- Delivery of passengers, goods, or services.
- Having a mobile workplace (such as a vehicle).
- Working with unstable or volatile people.
- Working alone or in small numbers.
- Working late at night or during early morning hours.
- Guarding valuable property or possessions.
- Working in community-based settings (for example, Home Care).
ALARA
Decision making principle:
“As Low As Reasonable Achievable”
Pragmatic technology based approach to minimizing heath risks that seeks to reduce potentially harmful exposures to known hazards to the greatest possible extent, consistent with technical feasibility and “reasonable achievable” costs.
Precautionary principle
Decision making principle:
Approach that implies that decision-makers take timely preventative action when a serious hazard is believed to exist, and scientific information is incomplete or contradictory
Describe the 4 steps of business continuity planning
- Business impact analysis
- Recovery Strategies
- Plan Development
- Testing & Exercises
What percentage of injuries result in lost work time?
What percentage of accident victims are young Canadians aged 15 to 29?
Over half of the injuries result in lost work time—more than 16 million days of work lost each year—the equivalent of the average annual work of 67,000 people.
Particularly at risk are young, inexperienced workers. About 30% of all accident victims compensated for time lost are young Canadians aged 15 to 29.
What is the optimum number of supervisory responsibilities managed by 1 individual under the ICS?
Under ICS, the number of supervisory responsibilities managed by one individual should be between three and seven team members, with five being the optimum number
Cumulative Burden
The annual ‘cumulative burden’ of workplace injuries and illnesses can be expressed as the number of days lost due to accidents and sick days due to work-related illnesses (i.e. severity without the rate plus the number of sick days due to work-related illnesses)
De Minimis Risk
Insignificant Risk Level
Numerical Definition: 1 in million to 1 in 10,000 for a working lifetime.
What is the fundamental purpose of the Incident Command System (ICS)?
A fundamental principle of ICS states that every individual participating in an operation reports to only one individual. This is designed to minimize conflicting supervisory directions, and to improve the unity of command. The command structure is designed to be “scalable”.
What workplaces need to have shelter-in-place management plans in place according to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Evacuation Planning Matrix?
The OSHA recommendation is for Yellow (significant in 1/3 below factors) and particularly the Red Zone (significant in 2/3 below factors) workplaces and facilities to have evacuation and/or shelter-in-place management plans in place.
1) “vulnerability”, an estimate of value of the site as a target for a terror event. For example, sites that contain hazardous materials, provide essential services to the public, high-rise buildings that have limited means of egress, and transportation carriers such as ships and airplanes.
2) “threat”, an estimate of the presence of an adversarial person or group with the intent to harm
3) “significant impact” and estimate of the “perceived success” of an attack, in terms of casualties, media attention, civil disruption, and terror.
Describe the PDCA model and who is associated with it
Plan — includes Policy, Planning, and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
Do — includes Implementation and Operation
Check — includes Performance Assessment (active monitoring and reactive incident reporting) Act — includes Review and Continual Improvement
This type of PDCA model was first developed many decades ago, largely by the pioneering efforts of Deming and his collaborators in the field of ‘quality management’ and ‘continual improvement’ for industrial production processes. The Deming approach to quality management was adopted early by Japanese companies, and much later by North American and European companies. By 1986, the first ISO-9000 standard was issued, which codified best-practice in quality management.
Risk = _______ x _________
Risk = Severity x Frequency
