PPE BASICS
This term describes clothing or gear that creates a barrier between you and a hazard.
What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
This is the term for a condition or source that has the potential to cause harm.
What is a Hazard?
This part of the C-I-A Triad means “making sure the right people can access information.”
What is confidentiality?
Protecting an organization's digital assets from threats that could compromise physical safety or operational continuity
What is Digital Safety?
Flying particles, loud noise, chemicals, and sharp objects are all examples of these.
What are job hazards?
This type of PPE protects you from flying chips, sparks, chemicals, and bright light.
What is eye and face protection?
This is the term for the severity of an outcome if a safety event actually occurs.
What is Consequence?
This principle ensures data hasn't been changed without permission — like making sure a beam size isn't altered in a Revit file.
What is integrity?
Replacing a toxic chemical with a less harmful one is an example of this high-level safety control, which is better than just using PPE.
What is Substitution?
This type of control involves changing how work is done—such as housekeeping or rotating jobs.
What are work practice controls?
Before using PPE, you must always do this—checking for cracks, wear, or damage.
What is inspecting your PPE?
This is the process of reducing risk, usually by changing the likelihood or the consequence of a hazard.
What is Mitigation?
If a server crashes before a project deadline, this element of the Triad has failed.
What is availability?
If your goggles are scratched, cracked, or dirty, you should do this before working.
What is replace them (or clean them)?
This foot hazard involves nails, spikes, or metal that could break through normal shoes.
What is a puncture hazard?
This type of head protection must be replaced if the shell is cracked, faded, or heat-damaged.
What is a hard hat?
This is the formula engineers use to calculate the Risk Score
What is Likelihood multiplied by Consequence?
Encrypting data and using 2FA both help protect this C-I-A principle.
What is confidentiality?
A messy workspace with cut-offs or scrap material increases this type of risk in the engineering matrix.
What is likelihood?
These specific gloves must be air-tested before each use to make sure they can stop electricity.
What are electrical-insulating gloves?
Life Lines, Safety Harnesses, and Lanyards are the equipment used for this specific type of protection.
What is Fall Protection?
This tool helps engineers visualize which hazards need the most attention.
What is a risk matrix?
Using backup servers and disaster recovery plans supports this Triad element.
What is availability?
If your calculated Risk Score is 15 on the 1-25 scale, your first action should be to do this before continuing work.
What is Stop Work (and mitigate immediately)?
This dangerous situation requires life jackets as PPE.
What is working around water?