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De minimis Violation
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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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Other-than-serious violation
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Violation of an OSHA standard that would probably not cause serious physical harm or death.
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Emergency Exit Procedures (Means of Egress) standard
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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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Musculosketal disorder (MSD)
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Disease cause by repetitive motion that affects muscles, nerves, tendons, ligaments, joints, cartilage, blood vessesls, and spinal disks; also called cumulative trauma syndrome (CTS), cumulative trama disorder (CTD), or repretitive stress injury (RSI).
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OSHA's Form 300
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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 301
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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 300A
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Summary of Work-related Injuries and Illnesses; shows the totals of wore-related injuries and illnesses for the year in each category.
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Bloodborne Pathogens
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Microorganisms in human blood that can cause disease in humans
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Bloodborne Pathogens standard
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OSHA standard that requires employers to protect employees from potentially infectious materials.
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Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act
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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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Risk managment scorecard
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Tool used to make calculated judegements based on the probability that a circumstance will occur and the potential consequences.
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Proprietary inforamation
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Sensitive information owned by an oranization that gies the organization certain competitive advantages.
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Pandemic
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Emergence of a disease new to the population;the agent infects humans, causing serious illness and spreads easily and sustainably.
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Occumpational Noise Exposure (Hearing Conservation) standard
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OSHA standard that requires employers to provide controls to reduce unsafe noise levels in the workplace
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Terrorism
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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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State plans
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Safety and health policies and procedures that states have adopted and that have been approved by OSHA
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Security
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Physical/procedureal measures used to protect people, property, and information in the workplace.
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Risk managment
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Identification, evaluation and control of risk that may affect an organization, typically incrpaorating the use of insurance and other strategies.
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USA Patriot Act
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Act that gives federal officials greater authority to take measures to combat terrorism
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Heath (NIOSH)
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Agency that provides health and ssafety information
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Occupational Safety and health (OSH) act
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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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Repeat Violation
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Vilation of an OSHA Standard that is a repeat of a vilation found under a previous inspection
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Personal Protective Equipment Standard
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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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Sick building syndrome (SBS)
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Situation in which building occupants experienc 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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Safety
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Freedom from hazard, risk or injury
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Unsafe Acts
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Indidents that result from unsafe behavior on the part of the employee, such as operationg equipment at high speeds.
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Tagout
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Signs or labels attached to equipment to warn others not to activate it.
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Process Safety Management standard
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OSHA standard aimed at preventing or minimizing the consequences of catastrophic releases of toxic, reactive, flammable, or explosive chemicals.
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
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Agency that administers and enforces the Occpational Safety and health Act of 1970
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Wellness programs
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Preventitive health programs offered by employers designed to imporve the health and physical well-being of employe both on and off the job.
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Social engineering
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Collection of manipulative techniquies used to gain access to private or confidential information, often without face-to face interaction.
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Safety committees
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Composed of workers from differnt levels and departments who are involved in safety planning and programs.
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Return-to -work programs
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Programs that offer employees less-strenuous jobs until they are fit to return to their regular jobs;also know as modified-duty programs.
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Teratogens
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Products that affect a fetus but not the pregnant mother
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Occupational illness
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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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Unsafe conditions
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Mechanical or physical hazards that may lead to injury, such as defective equipment or improper lighting.
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Willful violations
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Violation of an OSHA standard taht is considered intentional
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Occupational Inury
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Injury that results from a work-related accident or exposure involvinig a singel incident in the work environment.
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Occupational Safety and health Review Commission (OSHRC)
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Group that rules on contested OSHA citations
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Machine Guarding standard
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OSHA standard that provides general requirements for all machinery to protect operator and other employees.
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Homeland Security Act
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Act designed to secure the United States against terrorist attacks and other thearts and hazard and ensure safe and secure borders.
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General Duty Clause
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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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Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
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Employer-sponsored programs that deliver a vairiety of health-related and personal servcies, which are provided by licensed professionals or organizations and offer employees a high degree of confidentiality.
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Control of Hazarous Energy Standard
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OSHA standard that requires action so equipment cannot be activated (lockout) and signs or labels (tagout) are attached to dangerous quipment atha should not be activated.
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Business continuity planning
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Management process that identifies potential threats and impacts to an organization and provides a framework for ensuring that it is able to withstand disruption, interruption or loss of normal business functions/operations.
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Biometric verification
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Use of an individuals physical characteristics such as fingerprints and voice patters to allow access to computers databases.
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Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB)
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Form of tuberculosis that is resistanct to current drug therapy.
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Job burnout
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Depletion of physical/mental resources caused by excessive striving to reach an unrealistic work-related goal.
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Fetal protection policies
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Attemts to protect the fetus from workplace hazards
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Counseling
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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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Constructive confrontation
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Intervention strategy that focuses on job performance
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Building-related illness
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Situation in which buildin occupants experience acute health and comfort effects that can be attributed directly to airborne building contaminants
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Disaster recover plan
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Guidelines and procedures to be used by an organization for the recovery of business operations whenlost due to disasters such as earthquakes, fies, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, terrorism, or epidemics.
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Health
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State of well-being, free of illness or disease
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Hazard
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Potential for harm, often associated with a condition or activity that, if left uncontrolled, can result in injury or illness.
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Epidemiology
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Brand of medicine that investigates the causes and control of fiseases in a population
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Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
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Must be provided bmanufacturers for every hazardous substance;employers must evaluate chemicals and inform employees of hazardous properties
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
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Virus that may lead to the developement of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome AIDS
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Accident
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Undesired event that results in physical harm to a person or damage to property
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Corporate Espionage
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Act of spying or using spies to obtain secret or confidential infromation about a business competitor for commercial purposes
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Computer vision syndrome (CVS)
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Vision problems such as headaches and blurred vision that are associated with video display terminals
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Professional liability insurance
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Insurance that protects directors, officers, employees and organizations against clais of negligence in the performance of professional services
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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
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Caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, which kills or damages cells of the body's immune system by progressiely destroying the bodys ability to fight infrctiosn and certain cancers.
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Mine Safety and Health Act
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Established mandatory safety and health standards for underground and surface mines
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Independent medical exam
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Legal term referring to anexamination and assessment of an injured employee performed by an appropriately qualified, impartial doctor for the purpose of determining fitness for duty.
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Hazard Communication Standard (Employee Right-to-Know Law)
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OSHA standard that requires labeling, Material Safety Data sheets, training, orientation for new and transferred employees, and hazard communication programs to inform employees of hazardous chemicals in the workplace.
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Ergonomics
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Design of the work environment to address the physical demands experienced by employees
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Drug-Free Workplace Act
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Requires federal contractors with contracts of $100,000 or more as well as recipients of grants from federal government to certify they are maintaining a drug-free workplace.
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Corporate sabotage
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Act of deliberately hampering, subverting, or otherwise hurting the efforts of another organization
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Confined Space Entry standard
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OSHA standard designed to protect workers in confined spaces from hazardous atmospheres, entrapment, or engulfment by liquids or small particles.
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Vulnerabilities
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Security risk factors
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Tuberculosis (TB)
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Airborne contagious disease caused by a bacterial infection
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Stress
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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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Serious Violation
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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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