Safety Procedures Flashcards
What are the 4 main areas of safety?
- Personal Safety
- Component Safety
- Electrical Safety
- Chemical Safety
What does Personal Safety consist of?
Trip Hazard avoidance
Proper Lifting Techniques
Safety gear usage
What is Component safety?
The action taken to prevent damage to the components that you’re going to be working with.
What is Electrical Safety?
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.
What is Chemical Safety?
The proper handling and disposal of hazardous materials and chemicals.
What is a Trip Hazard?
Occurs when there is an object where people walk.
What is a Proper Lifting Technique?
Always lift with your legs and not your back when lifting heavy equipment.
What is Safety Gear Usage?
Using safety goggles, gloves and mask
What is the biggest threat to your components?
ESD or Electrical Static Discharge.
How does ESD occur?
When a path allows electrons to rush from a statically charged body into a component that doesn’t have a charge.
How do you prevent damage to your equipment during a high-voltage event?
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.
Knowing how to properly handle and dispose of hazardous materials and chemicals, is an example of what Safety protocol?
Chemical Safety.
To prevent someone from tripping over a cord or cable, is an example of what Personal Safety practice?
Trip Hazard Avoidance.
If you hurt your back lifting heavy equipment by not using ur legs, what is this not an example of?
Proper Lifting Techniques.
When working around certain components you may be using chemical compounds, what Personal Safety practice should you follow?
Safety Gear Usage
Using safety goggles, gloves and mask.
Break down how a component gets a ESD.
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.
What are some hazardous materials and chemicals, you need to properly know how to handle?
Lithium batteries, Toner from Laser Printers.
Hazardous materials and components such as: Lead, Mercury, Arsenic, etc.
How do you prevent ESD from damaging your components?
Always carry your components around in an anti-static bag that protects it from ESD.
How does anti-static bags protect your components?
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.
When handling components for installing what ESD protections should you have?
ESD wrist strap and a ESD mat.
What is a ESD wrist strap?
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.
What does a ESD mat do?
It holds the computer and the components when you go to install into a given system.
