Incidents
These are the most common workplace Incidents.
What are slips, trips and falls?
Promotes the design and adaption of equipment, systems and tasks to assist people to perform better and more safely.
What is Ergonomics?
This is the core of every organization’s occupational health and safety management system
What is a Hazard Assessment?
This is an action or a decision that treats a person or a group negatively for reasons such as their race, age or disability.
What is Discrimination?
Examples are, pathogen, including bacteria, viruses, fungi and/or protozoa
What are infectious agents?
Close calls in the work place.
What are near misses?
Smooth - Found in the walls of our blood vessels and our hollow organs
Heart - Found in the heart wall
Skeletal - Found throughout our bodies attached to our bones
What are tissues that can contract?
Takes a close look at the overall operations of an organization to identify hazards, measure risk (to help prioritize hazards), and develop, implement and monitor related controls.
What is a Formal Hazard Assessment?
This includes any unwanted physical contact, attention or demand that negatively affects the working environment
What is Harassment?
Body openings
Breaks in the skin
Breaks in the mucous membranes
A susceptible host
What is portal of entry?
Forms that you fill out when an incident occurs.
What is an incident report?
These are the structures that connect our bones together.
What are Joints?
These are the 2 categories of the Risk Matrix.
What are Severity and Likelihood?
Treat everyone with respect and do not harass others
Know your harassment prevention policy
Intervene when you see harassing behavior
Provide relevant information on the harassment you observed
What is Employee responsibilities?
When they look dirty;
Before and after personal care of clients;
After you go to the bathroom;
When you should wash your hands?
management’s commitment to prevent incidents
What is a part of an occupational health and safety plan?
Connect our muscles to our bones
What are Ligaments?
This assessment is performed before work starts at a site and at a site where conditions change or when non-routine work is added.
What is a site-specific hazard assessment?
This is either a bias in favor of or against something.
What is Prejudice?
Eating the right kinds and amounts of healthy food and getting the right amount of sleep.
What is Protecting your immune system?
Consider these factors and items when reviewing workplace hazards
What is information from workers, past near-misses and incidents?
Worker’s movement and posture, Frequency and force of the person being moved, Size, design and layout of the facility, Availability of appropriate equipment, knowledge of safe lifting techniques can help prevent.
What are Musculoskeletal Injuries?
Engineering Controls
Administrative Controls
Personal Protective Equipment
What are hazard elimination controls?
__________ of change in the workplace is counterproductive, especially fear of ideas and people who are different from us.
What is Fear?
A place where pathogens survive but don’t necessarily multiply
What is a reservoir?