Reading the FHA
This is the name of the job class that our FHA applies to.
What is a Measurement, Automation, and Communications Technologist?
This is the Elimination Control prescribed to reduce the risk to employees of lithium batteries leaking &/or causing fires.
What is "do not carry unless required?"
BONUS 100: A critical electrical safety rule requiring you to verify that a circuit is completely de-energized with a tested meter before you touch any wires or components.
This is the Engineering Control present on many of our rotating or hot equipment which reduces risk to employees from Medium to Low.
What are Guards?
This the chief Administrative Control prescribed to reduce the risk presented by poor Vehicle Condition.
What is the Fleet Preventative Maintenance Schedule?
These three pieces of PPE are prescribed for loading & unloading materials on shelves and racking.
What are Work Gloves, Long Pants/Sleeves, and Steel Toed Boots?
This is a rating which aims to capture the potential for harm BEFORE mitigations are put into place.
What is Initial Risk?
This is the Elimination Control prescribed to reduce the risk of natural gas igniting off of live electrical power in a station.
What is explosion proof housing in class-1/div-1 areas?
BONUS 200: A violent electrical explosion caused by a current jumping through the air between conductors or to the ground.
This is the chief Engineering Control prescribed to reduce the risk of H2S from entering our stations (pipes or atmosphere).
What is the ESD valve and fixed H2S monitoring.
BONUS 200: what is the 3rd control prescribed that should be eliminated in future versions of the FHA?
This is one of the two Administrative Controls prescribed to reduce the risk presented by high noise levels to employees.
What is "Signage if > 85 dBa" or "GD 00481 Noise Exposure?"
These are the PPE our FHA recommends to reduce the risk created by pinch points from Medium to Low.
What are steel toed boots and work gloves?
This is the rating which aims to capture the potential for harm AFTER mitigations are put into place.
What is Residual Risk?
This is the primary Elimination Control prescribed to reduce the risk created by Natural Gas across many activities & tasks in the FHA.
What is "Shut off the gas if safe to do so?"
This is the chief Engineering Control present in control valves (as an add-on) to reduce the risk created by excessive noise.
What is Whisper Trim?
This is the ATCO website where many of our work procedures can be found which act as an Administrative Control for many hazards listed in the FHA.
What is the Standards Sharepoint?
These are the 2 primary pieces of PPE prescribed to reduce the risk to operators of H2S in a station.
What are the Blackline and SCBA?
BONUS 200: This one should not be listed, but it is!
This is the item or event which could cause harm (financial, material, personal, reputational, etc) to ATCO or its employees.
What is the Hazard?
BONUS 400: Electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, chemical, nuclear, thermal, gravitational or any other form of energy that could cause injury due to the unintended motion, energizing, start-up or release of such stored or residual energy in machinery, equipment, powered mobile equipment (PME), piping or pipelines.
This Elimination Control is prescribed as a mitigation for Moving Parts and Electrical hazards, and it could also be considered an Administrative Control.
What is Lock-Out/Tag-Out?
This Engineering Control is repeatedly listed as a risk mitigation for hazards presented by natural gas and fumes.
What is ventilation?
This ATCO work procedure has a two-word title and is listed as an Administrative Control for both Driving and Working On Site
What is WP 00572 Working Alone?
These are the 5 pieces of PPE prescribed in the FHA for falls associated with ladder use (excluding fall protection, as required).
What are:
1. Steel Toed Boots
2. Safety Glasses
3. General Work Gloves
4. Hard Hat
5. Long Pants
What are:
1. Elimination
2. Substitution
3. Engineering
4. Administrative
5. PPE
Installing/Maintenance of TEGs lists four Hazards: Natural Gas, Live Power, Slips/Trips, and this hazard, which is missing an Elimination from its Controls column.
What is Hot Surfaces?
BONUS 500 - This is the missing Elimination Control previously described.
This is the prescribed minimum number of tiedown points for securing vehicle loads.
What is 4?
This is the Administrative Control for reducing the risk assciated with insecure vehicle loads
What is regular load inspections?
This is the minimum height for steel toed boots frequently prescribed in the FHA.
What is 6"?
BONUS 500: Is often called “lockjaw” because the person affected cannot open their jaw due to severe muscle contractions.