Culture
The two word phrase used at APS to describe a shift in culture and employee engagement to improve safety.
What is Safety Forward?
Freedom from the occurrence or risk of injury, danger, or loss.
What is safety?
An acronym describing thing that are potentially life threatening.
STKY (Stuff That Kills You)
The name of the system designed in 1948 to reduce collisions, prevent injuries, and save lives.
What is Smith Driving?
The PPE you must carry on your person at all times when I’m the field.
What are Gloves?
A set of requirements and guidelines that define minimum standards for employees for performing work tasks at APS and agreement to them are a condition of employment.
What is the Accident Prevention Manual (APM)?
An incident or near miss that results in or has the potential to produce a fatal or life-altering injury or illness.
What is a Serious Injury or Fatality (SIF)?
Any source of potential damage, harm, or adverse health effect on something or someone under certain conditions.
What is a hazard?
Engaging in any activity that diverts attention from driving.
What is Distracted Driving?
An effective tool in identifying and communicating critical elements of a job to the workers involved.
What is a Pre-job Brief?
An approach to safety that looks at the interface of the employee and the work and how to build capacity to fail safely.
What is Human and Organizational Performance (HOP)?
A large regulatory agency of the United States Department of Labor that ensures safe and healthful working conditions for workers by setting and enforcing standards.
What is the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)?
Examples include but are not limited to gravity, electrical, mechanical, and motion.
What are Energy Sources?
The Smith principle that recommends you should look ahead to where you’ll be about 15 seconds into the future.
What is Aim High in Steering?
The practice to warn and protect the public from workplace dangers presented in the workplace.
The belief that you won't be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes.
What is psychological safety?
The measures implemented to minimize negative consequences when an event occurs despite prevention efforts.
What is capacity?
A condition where high energy is present in the absence of a direct control where a serious injury is not sustained.
What is Exposure?
Smith principle that recommends you should be surrounding your vehicle with space as much as possible.
An injury that results in a death, days away from work, restricted work or transfer to another job, medical treatment beyond first aid, or loss of consciousness.
What is a Recordable?
A facilitated means of engaging with workers to understand the opportunities that are presented by everyday successful and safe work as well as events or incidents.
What are learning teams?
The scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system to optimize human wellbeing.
What is ergonomics?
A condition where high energy is present but there is no incident because the presence of a direct control.
What is Success?
The three goals of Smith Driving System.
What are Space, Visibility, and Time?
Three critical safety items located in every building that must be regularly expected.
What are first aid kit, AED, and fire extinguisher?