Backing Safety
This is the safest direction for a vehicle to travel whenever possible to reduce risk.
What is moving forward?
This type of fire extinguisher is designed specifically for electrical fires.
What is a type C fire extinguisher?
This type of report identifies unsafe conditions or behaviors before anything goes wrong and has no injury or damage.
What is a Safety Observation?
This basic worker right ensures you are informed about hazards and receive proper training before doing a task.
What is the Right to Know & Receive Training?
This is the first action you should take if you notice a spill that could be dangerous.
What is stop work and assess the situation?
This person assists the driver while backing and helps identify hazards in blind spots.
What is a spotter?
This workplace practice helps reduce fire risk by removing combustible debris, properly disposing of waste, and keeping work areas clean, thereby limiting fuel sources.
What is good housekeeping?
This occurs when an unplanned event almost causes injury or damage but is avoided by luck or quick reaction.
What is a Near Miss?
This worker right allows you to stop a task if you believe it could cause harm to yourself or others.
What is the Right to Refuse Unsafe Work?
This common environmental protection practice involves using absorbent materials or barriers to keep a spill from spreading.
What is containment?
These areas around a vehicle cannot be seen in mirrors or directly by the driver.
What are blind spots?
This 4-step method is used to operate a fire extinguisher effectively. Please name the method and what the letters stand for.
What is the PASS method? Pull, Aim, Squeeze and Sweep.
This type of event results in actual harm, such as injury, property damage, or environmental impact.
What is an Incident?
This group or role is one of the options workers can report safety concerns to, alongside supervisors and Health & Safety personnel.
What is the Joint Health and Safety Committee (or Representative)?
This type of spill response equipment often includes absorbent pads, booms, and disposal bags, all stored together for quick use.
What is a spill kit?
This must be done before backing to ensure the area behind the vehicle is clear of people and obstacles.
What is a walk-around (or 360-degree check)?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Workers should only use a fire extinguisher when the fire is small, contained, not spreading, and they have this critical safety condition behind them at all times.
What is a clear escape route?
What are the goals of Safety Observations, Near Misses, and Incidents?
These are the three key goals of reporting: prevent injuries, learn from close calls, and investigate failures.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This term describes illegal actions like demotion, reduced hours, or threats taken against a worker for reporting a safety concern.
What is reprisal?
This is the term for any substance release that could harm the environment, such as oil, chemicals, or fuel escaping containment.
What is a spill (or environmental release)?
This action requires the driver to immediately stop backing if they lose sight of their spotter.
What is stopping the vehicle (or stop immediately when visual contact is lost)?
These four elements must all be present for a fire to ignite and continue burning
What are fuel, heat, oxygen, and the chemical chain reaction?
Every serious incident is preceded by many near misses and even more of these.
What are unsafe acts?
Under workplace violence and harassment prevention, employers must complete this process to identify risks before putting controls in place.
What is a hazard assessment?
This document provides specific instructions on how to safely handle, clean up, and respond to a spill involving a particular substance.
What is a Safety Data Sheet (SDS)?