Safety/Regulations Flashcards
What is the average cost of a Partner injury?
$18,000
Explain the financial impact of an average Partner injury at your location. What’s the AWV needed to pay for 1 Partner injury at your location?
Over 12 month = The other answer is towards profitability.= 18000 x 16%=AWV. Cost of the claim or injury divide it by the profit percentage for our location (16%) then divide by 52 weeks to get the weekly cost.
What is the Cintas Safety Vision and what does each tenet mean?
- *Every Cintas location is injury, illness, collision, and fire free. We have a culture that is lead by safety and therefore we will work without incident. This wis done through training and engagement by all partners. 2. Every Cintas Partner is continuously improving Safety. We have a culture of Positive discontent. In other words we are never satisfied with the status Quo. We look for continuous improvement. 3. Cintas is widely known as world leader in safety. Self explanatory.
Describe the purpose of an Accident/Near Miss Investigation? Where can you find the form to be used? And who is to conduct?
This is an investigation in partnership with the front line partners to be engaged in continuously improving safety. We will investigate all incidents in order to prevent further issues. Intranet Home Page-Corporate Departments-Incident Reporting Forms.
What is the purpose of a HOP Learning Team? Where can you find the field guide to be used? Who should be part of the Learning Team?
Human & Organizational Performance (HOP) focuses on enhancing organizational processes and systems to better understand and address risk. Leading companies are using HOP to prevent workplace injuries and illnesses, significantly improve their employee engagement, work quality and system reliability, and achieve overall operational excellence. Intranet Home Page-Corporate Dept-Safety and Health-incident Reporting Resources.
What is the function of the Safety Improvement Committee? Who should be members?
“drive Safety and Health improvement through hazard recognition, S&H training, workplace inspections, and sustainable solutions to prevent adverse S&H incidents. A. Each Cintas Rental operation will have an SIC comprised of appointed partners from all departments and various work areas in the facility.”
What does safety “Compliance” mean? Why is it important?
Being in accordance with established guidelines or specifications. We believe that every accident is preventabel and that all partners are responsible for continously improving safety.
Explain transactional versus transformational safety and give examples of each. Tell me about the transformational activities you have in your current role?
Transaactional –meaning to take action. For example completing the fire extingusiher safety checklist every month. Transformational is to innovate and then execute on the deidired plan. For example changing over to Human & organizational Standards. Currently working with partnersfrom an educational standpoiint vs the micro managing style that they are used to, I’ll call it partner empowerment.
What is the difference between an OSHA recordable and first aid incident?
Using a nonprescription medication at nonprescription strength (for medications available in both prescription and non-prescription form, a recommendation by a physician or other licensed health care professional to use a non-prescription medication at prescription strength is considered medical treatment for recordkeeping purposes); B) Administering tetanus immunizations (other immunizations, such as Hepatitis B vaccine or rabies vaccine, are considered medical treatment); (C) Cleaning, flushing or soaking wounds on the surface of the skin; (D) Using wound coverings such as bandages, Band-Aids™, gauze pads, etc.; or using butterfly bandages or Steri-Strips™ (other wound closing devices such as sutures,staples, etc. are considered medical treatment);(E) Using hot or cold therapy; (F) Using any non-rigid means of support, such as elastic bandages, wraps, non-rigid back belts, etc. (devices with rigid stays or other systems designed to immobilize parts of the body are considered medical treatment for recordkeeping purposes); (G) Using temporary immobilization devices while transporting an accident victim (e.g.,splints, slings, neck collars, back boards, etc.). (H) Drilling of a fingernail or toenail to relieve pressure, or draining fluid from a blister; (I) Using eye patches; (J) Removing foreign bodies from the eye using only irrigation or a cotton swab;(K) Removing splinters or foreign material from areas other than the eye by irrigation,tweezers, cotton swabs or other simple means; (L) Using finger guards; (M) Using massages (physical therapy or chiropractic treatment are considered medical reatment for recordkeeping purposes); or (N) Drinking fluids for relief of heat stress.
What are the two primary areas at Cintas where fires occur?
Dryers, Soiled non garment goods
Name several key components of a good fire prevention program and explain each one.
Soil separation, designated formulas for wash, Bulk cool down program, Good closing time procedure.
What role does soil separation play in Quality and Fire Prevention?
Being able to provide the customer with a clean in tact product. Innerm ixing product types poses risk for spontaneous combustion. Also mixing it ensures that they will not be clean as some of the product will be washed on the wrong Formula.
What role do the Reliability and Quality Sections of the RSQ Scorecard play in a good safety program?
This ensures that scheduled preventative maintence is completed on time, it also enusres that all pother maintenance is compoleted in accordance to our programs. Quality is done and accurate. This demonstrates are dedication to safety as both reliability and quality play a role in our safety program. Such as sending out product that is clean and meets our standards. If not we find those items and educate our partners on what right looks like.
Name the 3 main types of wash alleys - what are the general hazards associated with each?
Automatic, manual, and Semi automatic
Explain the safety pyramid.
At the base is Unsafe behaviors, next level up is Near Misses, First Aid, Lost work days, Fatality.
