Safety First
The acronym PPE refers to this type of equipment designed to protect workers from injuries or exposure to hazards.
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
The term SDS, required for chemicals in the workplace, stands for this.
What is Safety Data Sheet?
This OSHA mandated plan is a written plan that helps employers protect employees from violence in the workplace
What is a Workplace Violence Prevention Plan
This government organization in the U.S. is responsible for enforcing workplace safety and health standards.
What is OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)?
This type of training ensures employees know the proper actions to take during an emergency situation, like a fire or chemical spill.
What is emergency response training?
An OSHA mandated written plan that employers create to prevent heat related illness in the workplace
What is a Heat Illness Prevention Plan or HIPP
This type of safety behavior is encouraged when employees feel they can report unsafe conditions without fear of punishment.
What is a Just Culture?
This critical safety practice involves continuously checking for safety issues during work and encouraging everyone to participate.
What is a safety walk or safety observation?
An OSHA mandated written plan that helps employers identify and fix workplace hazards to prevent injuries and illness
What is an Injury and Illness Prevention Plan or IIPP
A near miss in safety terms is an event where this happens, but no injury or damage occurs.
What is a hazard or incident?
Slips, trips, and falls are categorized under this broad type of workplace hazard.
What are physical hazards?
A written program that employers must establish to prevent injuries to housekeepers.
What is a Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention Plan or MIPP
Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) procedures are crucial in preventing accidents during the servicing of this kind of equipment.
What are machines or electrical equipment?
This term refers to the identification of potential hazards before they cause harm in the workplace.
What is hazard recognition?
This document, required in many industries, outlines step-by-step instructions for safely completing a task.
What is a Job Safety Analysis (JSA)