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76 Cards in this Set
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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.
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Homeland Security Act
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Group that rules on contested OSHA citations.
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Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC)
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Statement in Occupational Safety and Health Act that requires employers subject to OSHA to provide employees with a safe and healthy work environment.
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General Duty Clause
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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.
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Modified-duty program
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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.
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OSHA's Form 300
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Incidents that result from unsafe behavior on the part of the employee, such as operating equipment at high speeds.
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Unsafe acts
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Undesired event that results in physical harm to a person or damage to property.
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Accident
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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.
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Terrorism
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Vision problems such as headaches and blurred vision that are associated with video display terminals.
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Computer vision syndrome (CVS)
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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.
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Control of Hazardous Energy standard
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Branch of medicine that investigates the causes and control of diseases in a population.
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Epidemiology
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OSHA standard that provides guidelines for preparing an emergency action plan and includes specifications regarding exits and maintenance of emergency systems.
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Emergency Exit Procedures (Means of Egress) standard
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Insurance that protects directors, officers, employees, and organizations against claims of negligence in the performance of professional services.
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Professional liability insurance
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Agency that provides health and safety information.
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
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Injury and Illness Incident Report; supplemental record that covers the details of each occupational injury and illness.
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OSHA's Form 301
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Security risk factors.
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Vulnerabilities
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Violation of an OSHA standard that would probably not cause serious physical harm or death.
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Other-than-serious violation
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Products that affect a fetus but not the pregnant mother.
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Teratogens
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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.
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Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
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Physical/procedural measures used to protect people, property, and information in the workplace.
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Security
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Must be provided by manufacturers for every hazardous substance; employers must evaluate chemicals and inform employees of hazardous properties.
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Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
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Violation of an OSHA standard that is likely to cause death or serious injury on the job.
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Serious violation
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Situation in which building occupants experience acute health and comfort effects that can be attributed directly to airborne building contaminants.
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Building-related illness (BRI)
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Safety and health policies and procedures that states have adopted and have been approved by OSHA.
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State plans
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Virus that may lead to the development of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
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Established mandatory safety and health standards for underground and surface Unsafe conditionsmin
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Mine Safety and Health Act
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Mechanical or physical hazards that may lead to injury, such as defective equipment or improper lighting.
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Unsafe conditions
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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.
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Disaster recovery plan
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Revision to Bloodborne Pathogens standard that requires employers to minimize employees' exposure to blood through sharps injuries.
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Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act
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OSHA standard that requires employers to reduce unsafe noise levels in the workplace.
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Occupational Noise Exposure (Hearing Conservation) standard
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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).
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Musculoskeletal disorder (MSD)
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Software systems that help identify and manage operational risk across an organization.
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Enterprise risk management (ERM)
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Medical condition or disorder, other than one resulting from an occupational injury, caused by exposure to environmental factors associated with employment.
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Occupational illness
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Bloodborne pathogen transmitted through intimate contact.
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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
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Tool used to make calculated judgments based on the probability that a circumstance will occur and the potential consequences.
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Risk management scorecard
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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.
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Confined Space Entry standard
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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.
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Employee assistance programs (EAPs)
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Microorganisms in human blood that can cause disease in humans.
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Bloodborne pathogens
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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.
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Personal Protective Equipment standard
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Intervention strategy that focuses on job performance.
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Constructive confrontation
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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.
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Sick building syndrome (SBS)
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Judge who conducts the formal procedures for OSHA citations.
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Administrative law judge (ALJ)
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Airborne contagious disease caused by a bacterial infection.
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Tuberculosis (TB)
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OSHA standard aimed at preventing or minimizing the effect of catastrophic releases of toxic, reactive, flammable, or explosive chemicals.
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Process Safety Management standard
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OSHA standard that requires employers to protect employees from potentially infectious materials.
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Bloodborne Pathogens standard
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Attempts to protect the fetus from workplace hazards.
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Fetal protection policies
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Freedom from hazard, risk, or injury.
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Safety
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Violation of an OSHA standard that is a repeat of a violation found under a previous inspection.
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Repeat violation
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EAP program benefits offered to international employees and the non-U.S.-based workforce to support their unique cultural adjustment needs.
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International employee assistance programs (IEAPs)
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Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses; shows the totals of work-related injuries and illnesses for the year in each category.
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OSHA's Form 300A
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Composed of workers from different levels and departments who are involved in safety planning and programs.
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Safety committees
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Form of professional liability coverage that protects against employment claims.
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Errors and omissions (E&O) insurance
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Injury that results from a work-related accident or exposure involving a single incident in the work environment.
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Occupational injury
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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.
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Early-return-to-work program
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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.
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Risk management
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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.
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Risk management
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Agency that administers and enforces the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
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Refers to installing a lock, disconnect switch, or shutoff valve so equipment cannot be energized by mistake.
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Lockout
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Signs or labels attached to equipment to warn others not to activate it.
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Tagout
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Mental and physical condition that results from a real or perceived threat and the inability to remove it or cope with it.
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Stress
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Protects directors, officers, and corporations from claims such as shareholder class actions and SEC violations for fraud and mismanagement.
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Directors' and officers' (D&O) liability insurance
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Design of the work environment to address the physical demands experienced by employees.
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Ergonomics
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Violation of an OSHA standard that does not have a direct impact on employees' safety and health on the job.
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De minimis violation
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Depletion of physical/mental resources caused by excessive striving to reach an unrealistic work-related goal.
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Job burnout
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State of well-being, free of illness or disease.
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Health
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Voluntary group of employers that promotes and recognizes effective safety and health programs.
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Voluntary protection program (VPP)
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Emergence of a disease new to the population; the agent infects humans, causing serious illness, and spreads easily and sustainably among humans.
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Pandemic
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Violation of an OSHA standard that is considered intentional
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Willful violation
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Preventive health programs offered by employers designed to improve the health and physical well-being of employees both on and off the job.
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Wellness programs
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Any deviation from an acceptable standard.
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Incident
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Requires federal contractors with contracts of $100,000 or more to certify that they are maintaining a drug-free workplace.
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Drug-Free Workplace Act
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Sensitive information owned by a company that gives the company certain competitive advantages.
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Proprietary information
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Form of intervention in which the emphasis is on the cause of a problem rather than on job performance.
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Counseling
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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.
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Business continuity planning
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OSHA standard that provides general requirements for all machinery to protect operator and other employees.
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Machine Guarding standard
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Incident without adequate controls applied.
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Hazard
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