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45 Cards in this Set
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OSHA
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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PPE
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personal protective Equipment
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Ordinary Combustables: shape, letter, substance
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Triangle, A, paper-trash-wood
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Flammable Liquids: shape, letter, substances
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Square, B, liquids-grease
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Electrical Equipment (flammability): shape, letter, substances
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Circle, C, motors-transformers
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Combustable metals: shape, letter, substances
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star, D, zirconium-titanium
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NFPA: stands for, does what?
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National Fire Protection Association; provides guidelines in hazards of combustables, develops hazardous materials info, publishes National Electrical Code
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ANSI: stands for, does what?
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American National Standards Institute; ID industrial/public needs, national coordinator for consensus standards, activities in national standards development
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NEMA: stands for, does what?
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National Electrical Manufacturers Association; assists w/ info & standards for selections, ratings, construction, testing, performance of electrical equipment
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MSHA: stands for, does what?
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Mine Safety and Health Administration; develop/ensures compliance w/ safety and health standards
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NIOSH: stands for, does what?
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; acts in conjt w/ OSHA to develop exposure limits for hazards, recommends prevenative measures to reduce/eleminate health/safety
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UL: stands for, does what?
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Underwriters Laboratories Inc; Tests equipment to verify conformance to national codes/standards
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CSA: stands for, does what?
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Canadian Standards Association; tests equipment to verifty conformance to Canadian national standards
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EPA:
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Environmental Protection Agency
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DOT
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Dept of Transportation
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DHEC
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Dept of Health and Environmental Control
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Lockout/Tagout colors: (red, yellow, green, blue)
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Red: fire prevention
Yellow: Hazardous gas/liquids Green: non-hazardous liquids Blue: non-hazardous gas |
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Main Floor/2nd Floor Godfrey:
Fire Extinguishers |
13/6
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Main Floor/2nd Floor Godfrey:
fire alarm |
3/8
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Main Floor/2nd Floor Godfrey:
eye wash |
0/4
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Main Floor/2nd Floor Godfrey:
MSDS |
0/3
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Main Floor/2nd Floor Godfrey:
HMIG |
0/3
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Main Floor/2nd Floor Godfrey:
1st Aid: |
0/3
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Main Floor/2nd Floor Godfrey:
Telephone |
1/1
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Main Floor/2nd Floor Godfrey:
Hazardous cans |
0/7
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Types of penalties for safety disregard:
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Monetary fines, but sometimes more punishment is needed if the fine is less than the saving for breaking that law so then there is Incarceration.
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Officers (top managers) can delegate tasks to be accomplished, but can't delegate...
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responsibility for ensuring task completion.
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Court test of managment responsibilty:
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Forseeability: was reasonable effort made to anticipate accident?
Prudence: was action taken by management reasonable & prudent? (reasonable defined as ie: curling iron action: do not use while sleeping, Candle caution flammable) |
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Do managers bear ultimate responsibility even if faults are those of subordinates?
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YES!
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Accidents are not ___ events.
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RANDOM
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Avoidance of accidents requires a sustained, intergrated effort by managers of ALL depts, supervisors, and other employees at ALL LEVELS.
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Influence of management must be apparent in safety policies, it sets the degree to those policies are observed & concerned with which it treats any violation.
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Human nature=
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mistakes!
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Should equipment designers be able to defend their design?
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YES
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Specific areas for which management are responsible for safety (3)
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-hazardous operations
-personnel -PPE: Personal Protective Equipment (gloves, safety glasses, etc) |
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Monkey See, Monkey Do:
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Managers must take precautions seriously, otherwise employees will not take precautions seriously either.
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Managment and the Safety Info System allows management (2)
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-to determine if safety programs are adequate
-to accept, eliminate, or control risks (ie: ice pick at door way at eye level: accept this, (control it) by protective cover like cork/sign up/(eliminate) move it from doorway |
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Employee work does not improve with safety measures, because safety measure usually render fast work. T/F??
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FALSE! EMployee work improves, because employees are less scared/concerned with dying!
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Safety Info System (p115): 4 part: name and what they do
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-Safety Technical Systems: detailed descriptions of hazards, codes, manuals, etc
-Safety Management Info System: up-to-date, clearly stated commitment to providing a safe and healthy work place -Safety Administration Info System: budget, personnel info, etc -Safety Science & Engineering System: safety reviews of engineering design, etc. MSDS sheets |
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Almost every area in the management structure is required to have input into the Safety Info System: Areas include...(11)
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-personnel
-medical -production -plant engineering -Research and Development -Plant Maintenece -secruity -purchasing -legal -employee relations -records |
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Overcoming management Resistance to Safety, because their #1 priority is to make $$, + output, -cost
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Know when it's time to quit if you cannot change practices.
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Behavioral approach of change includes:
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-Stimulus (satisfaction/reward)
-Response (Conditioning and generalization). -Workers need to have sense of ownership here to instill pride/satisfaction. -Empowerment via Safety Committees |
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Regulatory means ____ must be established.
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safety rules must be established (Safety Info System), actually a combo of behavorial/response (easier than JUST response)
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Ways to create a safe work environment (4):
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-CIT: Critical Incident Technique, interviews
-Questionnaries: can just toss down answers, biases due to poor reading -Suggestions programs: IE suggestion box, contests -Safety Committees: should be made of employees (no managers) |
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Why are unions good?
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-produced safer/fair working enviornments: IE: min wage, avg work day, ventaliation & lighting
-can sometimes correct unsafe situations easier (less friction) than company reps |
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Safe working enviornments mean healthy workers that can pay union fees and produce work on the job.
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Unions usually grow where someone is unhappy about something.
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