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Act designed to secure the United States against terrorist attacks and other threats and hazards and ensure safe and secure borders.
Homeland Security Act
Group that rules on contested OSHA citations.
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC)
Statement in Occupational Safety and Health Act that requires employers subject to OSHA to provide employees with a safe and healthy work environment.
General Duty Clause
When an employer offers an employee a less-strenuous job until they are fit to return to their regular job; also known as early-return-to-work program.
Modified-duty program
Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses; used to classify work-related injuries and illnesses and to note the extent and severity of each case.
OSHA's Form 300
Incidents that result from unsafe behavior on the part of the employee, such as operating equipment at high speeds.
Unsafe acts
Undesired event that results in physical harm to a person or damage to property.
Accident
Use of force or violence against persons or property in violation of the criminal laws of the United States for purposes of intimidation, coercion, or ransom.
Terrorism
Vision problems such as headaches and blurred vision that are associated with video display terminals.
Computer vision syndrome (CVS)
OSHA standard that requires action so equipment cannot be activated (lockout) and signs or labels (tagout) attached to dangerous equipment that should not be activated.
Control of Hazardous Energy standard
Branch of medicine that investigates the causes and control of diseases in a population.
Epidemiology
OSHA standard that provides guidelines for preparing an emergency action plan and includes specifications regarding exits and maintenance of emergency systems.
Emergency Exit Procedures (Means of Egress) standard
Insurance that protects directors, officers, employees, and organizations against claims of negligence in the performance of professional services.
Professional liability insurance
Agency that provides health and safety information.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Injury and Illness Incident Report; supplemental record that covers the details of each occupational injury and illness.
OSHA's Form 301
Security risk factors.
Vulnerabilities
Violation of an OSHA standard that would probably not cause serious physical harm or death.
Other-than-serious violation
Products that affect a fetus but not the pregnant mother.
Teratogens
Act that established the first national policy for safety and health and continues to deliver standards that employers must meet to guarantee the health and safety of their employees.
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
Physical/procedural measures used to protect people, property, and information in the workplace.
Security
Must be provided by manufacturers for every hazardous substance; employers must evaluate chemicals and inform employees of hazardous properties.
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
Violation of an OSHA standard that is likely to cause death or serious injury on the job.
Serious violation
Situation in which building occupants experience acute health and comfort effects that can be attributed directly to airborne building contaminants.
Building-related illness (BRI)
Safety and health policies and procedures that states have adopted and have been approved by OSHA.
State plans
Virus that may lead to the development of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Established mandatory safety and health standards for underground and surface Unsafe conditionsmin
Mine Safety and Health Act
Mechanical or physical hazards that may lead to injury, such as defective equipment or improper lighting.
Unsafe conditions
Guidelines and procedures to be used by an organization for the recovery of data lost due to severe forces of nature, such as earthquakes, fires, tornadoes, floods, or hurricanes.
Disaster recovery plan
Revision to Bloodborne Pathogens standard that requires employers to minimize employees' exposure to blood through sharps injuries.
Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act
OSHA standard that requires employers to reduce unsafe noise levels in the workplace.
Occupational Noise Exposure (Hearing Conservation) standard
Disease caused by repetitive motion that affects muscles, nerves, tendons, ligaments, joints, cartilage, blood vessels, and spinal disks; also called cumulative trauma syndrome (CTS), cumulative trauma disorder (CTD), or repetitive stress injury (RSI).
Musculoskeletal disorder (MSD)
Software systems that help identify and manage operational risk across an organization.
Enterprise risk management (ERM)
Medical condition or disorder, other than one resulting from an occupational injury, caused by exposure to environmental factors associated with employment.
Occupational illness
Bloodborne pathogen transmitted through intimate contact.
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Tool used to make calculated judgments based on the probability that a circumstance will occur and the potential consequences.
Risk management scorecard
OSHA standard that requires space-entry restrictions, rescue procedures, and a written safe-entry program to address concerns over adequate oxygen content in the air, toxic substance exposure, and physical exposures for workers in confined spaces.
Confined Space Entry standard
Company-sponsored programs that deliver a variety of health-related services, which are provided by licensed professionals or organizations and offer employees a high degree of confidentiality.
Employee assistance programs (EAPs)
Microorganisms in human blood that can cause disease in humans.
Bloodborne pathogens
OSHA standard that protects employees from environmental, process, chemical, mechanical, or radiological hazards capable of causing injury or impairment and sets criteria for acceptable equipment designs.
Personal Protective Equipment standard
Intervention strategy that focuses on job performance.
Constructive confrontation
Situation in which building occupants experience acute health and comfort effects that appear to be linked to time spent in a building but no specific illness or cause can be identified.
Sick building syndrome (SBS)
Judge who conducts the formal procedures for OSHA citations.
Administrative law judge (ALJ)
Airborne contagious disease caused by a bacterial infection.
Tuberculosis (TB)
OSHA standard aimed at preventing or minimizing the effect of catastrophic releases of toxic, reactive, flammable, or explosive chemicals.
Process Safety Management standard
OSHA standard that requires employers to protect employees from potentially infectious materials.
Bloodborne Pathogens standard
Attempts to protect the fetus from workplace hazards.
Fetal protection policies
Freedom from hazard, risk, or injury.
Safety
Violation of an OSHA standard that is a repeat of a violation found under a previous inspection.
Repeat violation
EAP program benefits offered to international employees and the non-U.S.-based workforce to support their unique cultural adjustment needs.
International employee assistance programs (IEAPs)
Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses; shows the totals of work-related injuries and illnesses for the year in each category.
OSHA's Form 300A
Composed of workers from different levels and departments who are involved in safety planning and programs.
Safety committees
Form of professional liability coverage that protects against employment claims.
Errors and omissions (E&O) insurance
Injury that results from a work-related accident or exposure involving a single incident in the work environment.
Occupational injury
When an employer offers an employee a less-strenuous job until they are fit to return to their regular job; also known as modified-duty program.
Early-return-to-work program
Use of insurance and other strategies in an effort to prevent or minimize an organization's exposure to liability in the event a loss or injury occurs.
Risk management
Agency that administers and enforces the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Refers to installing a lock, disconnect switch, or shutoff valve so equipment cannot be energized by mistake.
Lockout
Signs or labels attached to equipment to warn others not to activate it.
Tagout
Mental and physical condition that results from a real or perceived threat and the inability to remove it or cope with it.
Stress
Protects directors, officers, and corporations from claims such as shareholder class actions and SEC violations for fraud and mismanagement.
Directors' and officers' (D&O) liability insurance
Design of the work environment to address the physical demands experienced by employees.
Ergonomics
Violation of an OSHA standard that does not have a direct impact on employees' safety and health on the job.
De minimis violation
Depletion of physical/mental resources caused by excessive striving to reach an unrealistic work-related goal.
Job burnout
State of well-being, free of illness or disease.
Health
Voluntary group of employers that promotes and recognizes effective safety and health programs.
Voluntary protection program (VPP)
Emergence of a disease new to the population; the agent infects humans, causing serious illness, and spreads easily and sustainably among humans.
Pandemic
Violation of an OSHA standard that is considered intentional
Willful violation
Preventive health programs offered by employers designed to improve the health and physical well-being of employees both on and off the job.
Wellness programs
Any deviation from an acceptable standard.
Incident
Requires federal contractors with contracts of $100,000 or more to certify that they are maintaining a drug-free workplace.
Drug-Free Workplace Act
Sensitive information owned by a company that gives the company certain competitive advantages.
Proprietary information
Form of intervention in which the emphasis is on the cause of a problem rather than on job performance.
Counseling
Management process that identifies potential threats and impacts to an organization and provides framework for ensuring that it is able to withstand disruption, interruption, or loss of normal business functions/operation.
Business continuity planning
OSHA standard that provides general requirements for all machinery to protect operator and other employees.
Machine Guarding standard
Incident without adequate controls applied.
Hazard