Hazard Identification
Define the term Hazard:
An activity, event, or condition that could create an incident that causes damage, injury, or illness.
What are the three types of hazard controls?
Engineering, Administrative, Basic-Point-of-Contract.
Workers have the right to be informed of the _______________ associated with their jobs.
Hazards.
When was the first Workmen’s Compensation Act passed?
1915.
Whose job is it to investigate a workplace incident or accident?
Management’s
What is the most common type of workplace hazard?
Physical.
Define “Hazard Control”:
Having a plan to reduce the risk of a hazard causing injury, harm, or loss.
It is the employer’s responsibility to ensure …
the health and safety of workers engaged in work for that employer.
Name two reasons that workers were often not compensated in the past:
Employers believed that workplace injuries were not their concern.
Many workers were too poor to take their employers to court to sue for compensation.
In the past when a worker was injured on the job, it was often believed to be …
Their own fault.
What are the 5 types of hazards?
Physical, chemical, biological, ergonomic, and psychological/mental health.
Training workers to properly use equipment, tools, and materials is an example of what type of control?
Administrative control.
In order to refuse work, what must be present?
Imminent danger.
What are the three things you MUST do if you are injured at work?
Tell your employer
Tell you doctor
Tell your WCB.
The three ergonomic factors used to measure people are:
Body size and shapes
Body functions
Mental activity
Harvesting crops by hand would be an example of what type of hazard?
Ergonomic.
Three additional types of hazard controls are:
Control at the source
Control along the path from the hazard to the worker
Control at the level of the worker.
If you refused to complete unsafe work, what is your employer not allowed to do?
Fire or terminate you.
Name four businesses that do not require workers’ compensation coverage:
Any combination of grooming, museums, babysitting, banks, accounting services, domestic help, golf courses, modeling agencies, telemarketing, farming, real estate agencies, travel agencies, medical offices.
What is Emergency Response Planning? Provide an example.
A plan that all workers understand and know what to do when an emergency occurs. Fire drills, lock down drills, earth quake drills.
During the outbreak of a zombie apocalypse, a CDC worker's suit rips while examining the virus causing people to turn into zombies. This is an example of what type of hazard?
Biological.
What are the four standards that must be met in order for something to be considered a good hazard control?
It prevents harm, loss and/or injury.
It protects all those that could be harmed.
It does not create any new hazards.
It does not create environmental or public hazards outside the workplace.
You work for a construction company that specializes in constructing sky scrapers. You arrive at work one morning and notice that the wide has picked up and you can hear thunder nearby. You were scheduled to work in the scaffolding that day. Do you complete the job? Why or why not?
No, because the weather is turning. The wind could knock you out of the scaffolding or cause it to collapse. Additionally, scaffolding is metal, and where there is thunder there is usually lightening.
What are the three types of coverage that can be provided to workers? Give a brief description of each.
Compulsory coverage – coverage that must be given by law to workers in certain industries.
Voluntary coverage – coverage that employers can purchase for their workers in industries that do not require compulsory coverage.
Personal coverage – coverage that business owners can purchase for themselves – giving them the same protection as workers.
How many days of rest must workers get each week?