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15 Cards in this Set
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What does OSE stand for? |
Occupational safety and ergonomics |
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True or false: safety is multi-disciplinary |
True |
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In a facility, who owns safety, ergonomics, or Human Factors? |
Nobody |
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True or false: products and systems must be designed for reasonably foreseeable use and misuse. |
True |
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**True or false: accidents have single causes and can usually be classified strictly into one category |
False. They are multi-factorial and cannot be classified strictly into one category |
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What is an accident? |
An undesirable event that interferes with normal work process and carries the potential for physical injury, property damage, or product loss. An accident may be attributed to a human factor (both intentional and unintentional), a situational factors (operations, tools, equipment and/or materials), or an environmental factor (both physical and psychological). |
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What is a hazard? |
A condition that has the potential to cause injury (It doesn’t have to cause injury), damage to equipment or facilities, loss of material or property, or a decrease in the capability to perform a prescribed function. |
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What is danger? |
The probability of loss. It is dependent on the relative exposure to a hazard. i.e. transformer in a vault is a high hazard but people cannot easily access it. |
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What is damage? |
The severity of injury or magnitude of loss that results from an uncontrolled hazard. i.e. walking on a balance beam 10 feet above the ground versus 100 feet above the ground may present similar exposure, levels of damage. |
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What is risk? |
A function of the probability of loss (danger) and the magnitude of potential loss (damage). Probability of loss * magnitude of potential loss |
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What is safety? |
The control of hazards to an acceptable level Safety is the function of the industry or environment you are in. i.e. soldier in war. Person on ski slope. |
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True or false: safety is the absence of something bad happening. |
False |
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What is the hierarchy of safety controls? |
1) Engineering controls 2) Administrative controls 3) Personal protective equipment Engineering Controls are at the top of the hierarchy. |
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________ is an intangible but important aspect of any overall safety effort. |
Safety culture |
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True or false: personal protective equipment can increase other risk factors. |
True. Factors such as heat stress and required force. PPE should be carefully chosen. |
