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The three items required anywhere in the plant, excluding the office
Safety glasses, metatarsal boots, and hard hat.
There’s a written checklist by the core machine that must be reviewed before startup. This represents what type of control?
An administrative control.
This is the best beverage to prevent heat stress.
What is water?
The first action taken to prevent disturbance of key evidence.
What is secure the scene?
This hazard type includes slipping, noise, temperature extremes, and radiation.
What are physical hazards?
Area in the foundry that requires two types of ear protection.
Cleaning room, shakeout.
Barriers have been added around the pouring area to reduce foot traffic. This is which type of control?
An engineering control.
This is the earliest sign of heat stress, marked by heavy sweating and fatigue.
What is heat exhaustion?
The step where you apply the “5 Whys” or fishbone diagrams.
What is analyze root cause?
Hazards like repetitive motions, awkward posture, and heavy lifting fall into this category.
What are ergonomic hazards?
The reason we don’t tuck pant legs into boots on the pour deck. To
Even with machine guards in place, this behavior makes the control useless.
Bypassing, disabling, or removing the guard.
True or False: Energy drinks help keep you hydrated in the heat.
What is False?
A crane swings over a walkway, but no one is nearby and no one is hurt.
What is a near miss?
This incident type often reveals underlying hazards and must be investigated thoroughly.
What are near misses or close calls?
This is why loose-fitting PPE can be just as dangerous as none at all. It
It can get caught in machinery or fail to protect properly.
Leadership eliminates an older molding machine that lacked proper guarding and ventilation, replacing it with a safer, automated model. What’s this an example of?
Substitution.
Working near furnaces or in direct sun can increase this environmental factor.
What is heat index or radiant heat?
Actions planned to prevent the incident from repeating.
What is corrective actions?
True or False - Wearing more PPE is always better
False
A respirator won’t work properly if you fail to perform this check before use.
List the hierarchy controls from most effective to least effective.
Elimination, substitution, engineering, administrative, PPE
These are worn on the body to lower core temperature.
What are cooling vests?
These workers weren’t involved in the incident but are trained to provide a neutral review.
What is the safety committee or peer investigators?
True or False - Slips, trips, and falls are the #1 cause of workplace injuries.
True