EASY
What does OSH stand for?
Occupational Safety and Health
The five areas checked during a workplace inspection, represented by the acronym PEPME, are called ___.
People, Environment, Physical Conditions, Machinery/Materials, and Equipment
A committee that must be establish within one (1) month from the start of mining operation.
Central Safety and Health Committee (CSHC)/ Occupational Safety and Health Committee (OSHC)
During a workplace inspection, a safety officer notices that a worker is not wearing the required safety helmet. What is the safety officer identifying?
Unsafe Act
The equipment worn by workers to protect themselves from workplace hazards is called ______.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
During a monthly safety review, the safety officer reports the number of safety meetings conducted, training sessions completed, and workplace inspections performed. What type of safety indicator is being measured?
Leading Indicator
A government program designed to provide employees and their families with income benefits, medical, and other benefits in the event of work-connected sickness, injury or death.
Employees' Compensation Program
A real safety and health inspection. It is deliberate, thorough, and systematic by design.
Planned inspection
The type of inspection conducted continuously by employees, supervisors, and maintenance personnel as part of their duties is called ______.
Unplanned Inspection
A company reviews the number of recordable injuries and lost workdays recorded during the previous month. What type of safety indicator is being measured?
Lagging Indicator
A workshop has a machine with a dangerous exposed moving part. The company decides to remove the hazardous machine and use a process that no longer requires it. Which level of the hierarchy of controls is being applied?
Elimination
Workers are exposed to excessive dust in a work area. Instead of relying only on masks, the company installs an effective dust-extraction system to control exposure at its source. Which control measure is being applied?
Engineering Control
The inspection conducted before starting an operation.
Pre-operation inspection
A supervisor regularly checks the workplace as part of daily duties without waiting for a scheduled inspection. What type of inspection is this?
Unplanned or Continuous Inspection
During an inspection, a safety officer identifies a hazard that requires immediate corrective action. The officer prioritizes it ahead of less serious findings in the report. What should guide this prioritization?
Hazard Severity or Risk Priority
It helps the investigator determine the sequence of events that ultimately led to the incident/accident
Event analysis
The document containing items or conditions that must be checked during an inspection
Checklist
During a safety meeting, a supervisor reminds workers to expect safe performance, demonstrates safe behavior, and consistently reinforces safety standards. What three Es of Safety are being applied?
Expect, Exhibit, and Emphasize
An inspector identifies an unsafe condition, but the same problem keeps happening. What problem-solving technique to identify its root cause?
The 5 Whys technique.
An inspection report identifies a recurring unsafe condition. Instead of merely recommending that workers be reminded of the rules, the safety team investigates why the condition keeps occurring and recommends measures to address its underlying cause. What approach is being applied?
Root Cause Analysis