Safety and Hazard Recognition
The four leading causes of death in Construction Work.
What are/is:
1. Falls, Struck-by, Caught in/between, Electrical shock
2. Big Four / Focus Four / Fatal Four
4:1
What is the vertical to horizontal ratio used to attain the proper angle for extension or fixed ladders?
What is equipment rollover?
The most common safety grounding system and is required unless tools are double insulated.
The three wire system.
Inhalation, Ingestion, Absorption (Injection)
What are the routes of exposure?
A measure of probability, consequences, and exposure related to an event.
What is a Risk Assessment?
Concerning floor holes; this is the type of protection is preferred to guarding, must be able to withstand twice the weight of the maximum intended load, be clearly marked and securely fastened.
What is a Hole Cover?
What is Cover(ed)?
benching, sloping, shoring and shielding
What are types of cave in prevention?
A formal safeguard that protects workers against unexpected releases of energy by requiring the person who applied a lock be the person who removes it.
What is Lockout/Tagout?
LOTO
A life-threatening condition where the body's temperature control system stops working and body temperature can rise so high as to cause brain damage and death.
What is heat stroke?
Excessive noise, poor lighting, inadequate warning systems, and unguarded parts.
What are unsafe conditions?
The person who should inspect PFAS on a monthly basis.
Who is the Competent Person?
This requires 1.21 gigawatts of power and allows for time travel once a vehicle gets to 88mph.
What is a Flux Capacitor?
When the noise level is so great that you have to raise your voice to be heard by someone 2 feet away.
What is an indicator that you need to be wearing hearing protection?
Swollen eyes, the feeling of sand in your eyes, impaired vision and/or trouble opening your eyes.
What are symptoms of flash burn?
Fact Sheet prepared by a chemical manufacturer or importer and required for each product used on a construction site.
What is an SDS (formerly MSDS)?
Similar to fall arrest except; this type of connection uses lanyards that connect to D-rings on a harness located other than your chest or between your shoulder blades. It requires a 3,000 lb anchor point as opposed to 5,000 lbs and does not take the place of fall arrest equipment.
What is Positioning and/or Fall Restraint?
Keeping spoil piles 2 feet from the edge of excavations and providing a means of egress every 25 feet for trenches over 4' deep.
What are trench safety practices.
Because it does not cover your eyes; this type of respirator cannot protect you from exposure to dangerous gases or fumes no matter how briefly you are exposed to them.
What is the Half Mask?
SCBA and Supplied Air - Long term
Full facepiece with chemical canisters - bried
A space large enough to work in but has limited means of entry or exit, not designed for human occupancy and with limited ventilation.
What is a confined space?
A simple work habit that helps reduce the chances for incidents such as slips, fires, explosions and falling objects
What is Housekeeping?
The color flag you would find on scaffolding that you use only if you're wearing a safety harness attached to a lanyard.
What is Yellow?
The only type of soil that benching systems cannot be used.
What is type C?
The material that, if encountered or even suspected, stops all work in an area until a supervisor is notified and the material is either seal off or removed by licensed professionals.
What is Asbestos?
The main reason why Class A fire extinguishers cannot be used on Class C fires.
What is the risk of electrocution?