Acronyms
HSE
Health, Safety, and Environmental
This item is made of a harness and a lanyard
Personal fall arrest system
This changes the way people work
Administrative controls
This element focuses on ensuring that employees know how to do their jobs safely
Training
This is the practice of fitting the workplace to the worker
Ergonomics
APR
Air-purifying respirator
These must conform to ANSI Z87 for impact protection and should be appropriately tinted for the work environment
Safety glasses
This is a physical removal of the hazard and is the most effective way to mitigate a hazard
Elimination
This element focuses on ensuring that the jobsite is safe for spark-producing work
Hot work permit
These are the most common causes of injuries in the workplace
Slips, trips, and falls
OSHA
Occupational Health and Safety Administration
To wear one of these, you have to pass a medical exam and be fit tested
Respiratory protection (APR and SCBA)
This is the isolation of people from the hazard
Engineering
This element focuses on ensuring operators are safely running their units
Operating procedures
To avoid eye strain, you should take a __ second break every __ minutes to look at something at least __ feet away
20, 20, 20
IDLH
Immediately dangerous to life and health
This item must protect the wearer from objects that can fall or roll, an object that could pierce the wearer, and electrical hazards
What are steel-toed boots
This is replacing the hazard with something safer
Substitution
This element focuses on finding the root cause of something that goes wrong and developing corrective actions
Incident investigation
In the event of an active aggressor in the workplace, these are the suggested actions to take in order of effectiveness
Run, hide, fight
NIOSH
National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety
This item improves the chance of the wearer surviving a flash fire
Flame resistant clothing
This is protection of the worker and the least effective method of mitigating a hazard
PPE
This element is the standard process that must be followed when implementing process, equipment, or personnel change
Bonus! Can anyone name all 14 elements of PSM?
Management of change (MOC)
Fire extinguishers must be visually inspected on this frequency and professionally inspected on this frequency
Visually inspected monthly and professionally inspected annually