Ladders & Scaffolds, & Such
A ladder made of two straight ladders that are connected so that the overall length can be adjusted
What is an extension ladder?
A protective screen set up around a welding operation designed to safeguard workers not directly involved in that operation.
A shield that provides eye and face protection for welders by either connecting to helmet-like headgear or attaching directly to a hard hat.
What is a welding shield?
The conducting connection between electrical equipment or an electrical circuit and the earth.
What is a ground?
The Occupational Safety and Health Adminstration standard that requires contractors to educate employees about hazardous chemicals on the job site and how to safely work with them.
What is HAZCOM.
Hazard Communication Standard
A person who is responsible for directing a vehicle when the driver's vision is blocked in any way.
Who is a signaler?
A work area large enough for a person to work, but arranged in such a way that an employee must physically enter the space to perform the work.
What is a confined space?
A self supporting ladder consisting of two elements hinged at the top.
What is a stepladder?
The joining of metal parts by fusion, in which the necessary heat is produced by means of an electric arc.
What is arc welding?
Part of a system that brings electricity from the street source(power poles and transformers) through the service lines to the electric meter mounted outside of the building and to the panel inside the building. The panel houses the circuits that distributes the electricity throughout the structure.
What is the Electrical Distribution Panel.
A rate computation to determine surcharge or credit to workers compensation premiums based on a company's previous accident experience.
What is EMR?
Experience Modification Rate
An assembly of machines used together to do a particular job.
What is an apparatus?
What is excavation?
A nonadjustable ladder.
What is a step ladder?
The flow of electrical current through a gas (such as air) from one pole to another pole.
What is an Arc?
A box that houses electrical switches used to regulate and distribute electricity in a building.
What is a switch enclosure?
A document that must accompany any hazardous substance. This identifies the substance and vies the exposure limits, the physical and chemical characteristics, the kind of hazard it presents, precautions for safe handling and use.
What is MSDS?
Material Safety Data Sheet.
A person who is capable of identifying existing and predictable hazards in the surroundings or working conditions which are unsanitary, hazardous or dangerous to employees, and who has authorization to take prompt corrective measures to eliminate them.
Who is a competent person?
The steepest incline of an excavation face that is acceptable for the most favorable site conditions as protection against cave-ins, expressed as the ratio of horizontal distance to vertical rise.
What is Maximum allowable slope?
The total weight of all people, equipment, tools, materials, and loads that a ladder can hold at one time.
What is a Maximum intended load?
Capable of easily igniting and rapidly burning: used to describe a fuel with a flash point at or above 100*
What is combustible?
The electrical outlet that is placed inside the structural elements of a building, such as inside the walls. The face of the receptacle is flush with the finished wall surface and covered with a plate.
What is a concealed receptacle?
An agency of the U.S. Department of Labor. The department was established in 1970. A law that applies to more than 111 million workers and 7 million job sites in the country.
What is OSHA.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
A formal procedure for taking equipment out of service and ensuring that it cannot be operated until a qualified person has removed the device.
What is lockout/tagout?
A confined space that has been evaluated and found to have actual or potential hazards, such as a toxic atmosphere or other serious safety or health hazards. Workers need written authorization to enter this space.
What is a permit required confined space?
A line attached to a tool or object a worker can pull it up after climbing a ladder or scaffold.
What is a hand line?
Capable of easily igniting and rapidly burning; used to describe a fuel with a flash point below 100*F.
What is flammable?
A unit of measure of the intensity of light falling on a surface, equal to one lumen per square foot and originally defined with reference to a standardized candle burning at one foot from a given surface.
What is a foot-candle?
Equipment or clothing designed to prevent or reduce injuries.
What is PPE?
Personal Protective Equipment
The organization of a company's management, including reporting procedures, supervisory responsibilities and administration.
What is management system?
A narrow excavation made below the surface of the ground that is generally deeper than it is wide, with a maximum with of 15 feet.
What is a trench?
Braces (metal or wood) placed diagonally from the bottom on one rail to the top of another rail that add support to a structure.
What is cross-bracing?
A sudden bright light associated with a starting up of a welding torch.
What is a flash?
A device that interrupts and de-energizes an electrical circuit to protect a person from electrocution.
What is a GFCI?
Ground fault circuit interrupter.
Work done near a hazard but not actually in contact with it.
What is proximity work?
Enclosed, fenced, covered or otherwise protected by barriers, rails, covers or platforms to prevent dangerous contact.
What is guarded?
A welding flame that flares up and chars the hose at or near the torch connection. It is caused by improperly mixed fuel.
What is a flashback?
A person who, by possession of a recognized degree, certificate or professional standing or by extensive knowledge, training and experience, has demonstrated the ability to solve or prevent problems relating to a certain subject, work or project.
Who is a qualified person?
A short section of rope or strap, one end of which is attached to a worker's safety harness and the other to a strong anchor point.
What is a lanyard?
The damage that can be done to eyes after even brief exposure to ultraviolet light from arc welding.
What is a flash burn?
A device that provides clean, filtered air for breathing, no matter what is in the surrounding air.
What is a respirator?
Mid Level, horizontal board required on all open sides of scaffolding and platforms that are more than 14 inches from the face of the structure and more than 10 feet above the ground. It is placed halfway between the toeboard and the top rail.
What is mid-rail?
Eye protective equipment worn during welding operations.
What are flash goggles?
The culture created when the whole company see the value of a safe work environment.
What is a Safety Culture?
Having pieces of material 2 or more inches thick and 6 or more inches wide used as flooring, decking and scaffolding.
What is planked?
The temperature at which fuel gives off enough gases (vapors) to burn.
What is a flash point?
A rule stating that platforms and work surfaces with unprotected sides or edges that are 6 feet or higher than the ground or level below it require fall protection.
An elevated platform for workers and materials.
What is a scaffold?
Waste material resulting from cutting using a thermal process.
What is dross?
A chip or fragment of rock or soil that has broken off from the main mass.
What is spall?
A vertical barrier at floor level attached along exposed edges of a platform, runway or ramp to prevent materials and people from falling.
What is a toeboard?
Waste material from welding operations.
What is slag?
A cloth cone open at both ends mounted in a high place to show which direction the wind is blowing.
What is a wind sock?
A top level, horizontal board required on all open sides of scaffolding and platforms that are more than 14 inches from the face of the structure and more than 10 feet above the ground.
What is a top rail?