Safety Procedures

Question 1

What are the 4 main areas of safety?

Answer 1

1. Personal Safety
2. Component Safety
3. Electrical Safety
4. Chemical Safety

Question 2

What does Personal Safety consist of?

Answer 2

Trip Hazard avoidance
Proper Lifting Techniques
Safety gear usage

Question 3

What is Component safety?

Answer 3

The action taken to prevent damage to the components that you’re going to be working with.

Question 4

What is Electrical Safety?

Answer 4

Protecting yourself against the threat of electrocution and ensuring that your equipment is properly grounded, and the equipment is plugged into a surge protector. To prevent damage to your equipment during a high-voltage event.

Question 5

What is Chemical Safety?

Answer 5

The proper handling and disposal of hazardous materials and chemicals.

Question 6

What is a Trip Hazard?

Answer 6

Occurs when there is an object where people walk.

Question 7

What is a Proper Lifting Technique?

Answer 7

Always lift with your legs and not your back when lifting heavy equipment.

Question 8

What is Safety Gear Usage?

Answer 8

Using safety goggles, gloves and mask

Question 9

What is the biggest threat to your components?

Answer 9

ESD or Electrical Static Discharge.

Question 10

How does ESD occur?

Answer 10

When a path allows electrons to rush from a statically charged body into a component that doesn’t have a charge.

Question 11

How do you prevent damage to your equipment during a high-voltage event?

Answer 11

If working inside:
Your computer should always be unplugged before you start working inside the case.

If using:
The equipment is plugged into a surge protector.

Question 12

Knowing how to properly handle and dispose of hazardous materials and chemicals, is an example of what Safety protocol?

Answer 12

Chemical Safety.

Question 13

To prevent someone from tripping over a cord or cable, is an example of what Personal Safety practice?

Answer 13

Trip Hazard Avoidance.

Question 14

If you hurt your back lifting heavy equipment by not using ur legs, what is this not an example of?

Answer 14

Proper Lifting Techniques.

Question 15

When working around certain components you may be using chemical compounds, what Personal Safety practice should you follow?

Answer 15

Safety Gear Usage

Using safety goggles, gloves and mask.

Question 16

Break down how a component gets a ESD.

Answer 16

If you were to walk on a carpet floor, you would be building up static electricity in your body.
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Then, if you were to touch a Motherboard, Expansion Card, or other Circuit Board.
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You could discharge that static electricity from your body into that component and it will damage it.

Question 17

What are some hazardous materials and chemicals, you need to properly know how to handle?

Answer 17

Lithium batteries, Toner from Laser Printers.

Hazardous materials and components such as: Lead, Mercury, Arsenic, etc.

Question 18

How do you prevent ESD from damaging your components?

Answer 18

Always carry your components around in an anti-static bag that protects it from ESD.

Question 19

How does anti-static bags protect your components?

Answer 19

It prevents static electricity from discharging from you, through the bag, to the component by using a coding inside the bag that is a conductive material.

Question 20

When handling components for installing what ESD protections should you have?

Answer 20

ESD wrist strap and a ESD mat.

Question 21

What is a ESD wrist strap?

Answer 21

When handling components a ESD wrist strap discharges static electricity from your body into a ground.
It prevents ESD from going into the component instead.

Question 22

What does a ESD mat do?

Answer 22

It holds the computer and the components when you go to install into a given system.