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Which of the following is NOT considered a leading indicator?
Which of the following is NOT considered a leading indicator?
What is the primary focus of Evidence-Based Approach in audits?
What is the primary focus of Evidence-Based Approach in audits?
What does Fault Tree Analysis primarily evaluate?
What does Fault Tree Analysis primarily evaluate?
According to Contingency Theory, which statement is true?
According to Contingency Theory, which statement is true?
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Which management style allows for employee participation but maintains close supervision?
Which management style allows for employee participation but maintains close supervision?
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What is a primary reason for implementing Safety Management Systems?
What is a primary reason for implementing Safety Management Systems?
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What defines an accident in safety management?
What defines an accident in safety management?
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What happens in a single-point failure?
What happens in a single-point failure?
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What does the Domino Theory illustrate about accidents?
What does the Domino Theory illustrate about accidents?
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What is the purpose of a Gantt Chart in project management?
What is the purpose of a Gantt Chart in project management?
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What does the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) aim to standardize?
What does the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) aim to standardize?
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What does the Threshold Limit Value-Time Weighted Average (TLV-TWA) signify?
What does the Threshold Limit Value-Time Weighted Average (TLV-TWA) signify?
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What is a hazard?
What is a hazard?
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What is the typical ratio between direct and indirect costs according to Heinrich's Incident Theories?
What is the typical ratio between direct and indirect costs according to Heinrich's Incident Theories?
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What does the 'Plan' stage of the PDCA cycle entail?
What does the 'Plan' stage of the PDCA cycle entail?
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What characterizes unstable (reactive) chemicals?
What characterizes unstable (reactive) chemicals?
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Which statement best describes a Permit-Required Confined Space?
Which statement best describes a Permit-Required Confined Space?
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What is the role of an Entry Attendant?
What is the role of an Entry Attendant?
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What is the focus of the Frequency Strategy in accident prevention?
What is the focus of the Frequency Strategy in accident prevention?
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Which theory suggests that accidents are caused by multiple factors working together?
Which theory suggests that accidents are caused by multiple factors working together?
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What does the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) require?
What does the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) require?
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Which method is used to assess hazards associated with a job function?
Which method is used to assess hazards associated with a job function?
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What are uninsured costs associated with accidents typically include?
What are uninsured costs associated with accidents typically include?
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In the unsafe acts and unsafe conditions ratio, what percentage of accidents is caused by unsafe acts?
In the unsafe acts and unsafe conditions ratio, what percentage of accidents is caused by unsafe acts?
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What does Risk Analysis involve?
What does Risk Analysis involve?
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What is considered a direct cost of an accident?
What is considered a direct cost of an accident?
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What is a characteristic of water-reactive chemicals?
What is a characteristic of water-reactive chemicals?
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What does Financial Justification involve?
What does Financial Justification involve?
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What is the incident-injury ratio?
What is the incident-injury ratio?
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Which strategy focuses on reducing the accidents that are most costly?
Which strategy focuses on reducing the accidents that are most costly?
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What does Hazard Control aim to achieve?
What does Hazard Control aim to achieve?
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What is the purpose of risk analysis?
What is the purpose of risk analysis?
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Which term refers to the risk remaining after safety mitigation efforts have been implemented?
Which term refers to the risk remaining after safety mitigation efforts have been implemented?
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How is risk characterized in risk assessment?
How is risk characterized in risk assessment?
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What does ALARP stand for?
What does ALARP stand for?
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What is the main goal of risk mitigation?
What is the main goal of risk mitigation?
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In risk determination, which factors are identified?
In risk determination, which factors are identified?
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What does a job safety analysis focus on?
What does a job safety analysis focus on?
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Which metric assesses if a project has met safety standards?
Which metric assesses if a project has met safety standards?
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What does the probability in risk assessment signify?
What does the probability in risk assessment signify?
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What is acceptable risk?
What is acceptable risk?
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Study Notes
Workers' Compensation
- Refers to payments for medical expenses, survivor benefits, and costs related to accidents (including travel and legal services) for injured or ill employees.
Task Analysis
- A detailed method for defining undertaking elements and documenting necessary resources for completion.
Common Metrics
- Budget: Evaluates if the project is within or exceeding budget.
- Time: Determines if the project or phase is on schedule.
- Quality: Assesses if work meets or exceeds standards (e.g., inspection).
- Conflict: Identifies conflicts among team members during the project phase.
- Safety: Checks for safety incidents during the project phase.
Risk Analysis
- Uses qualitative and quantitative techniques to evaluate risk frequency and severity.
Risk Determination
- Includes risk type, location, probability, consequences, and risk estimate (probability x consequences).
Risk Acceptance
- Decides on acceptable risk frequencies and severities for individuals, companies, and society.
Risk Characterization
- Analyzes the effects of risk exposure on people.
Job Safety Analysis
- A formal method to assess hazards associated with a job function.
Mishap
- An unplanned event or series of events leading to death, injury, occupational illness, or damage to property/environment.
SMART Goal
- Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-bound goals.
International Labor Organization (ILO) Guidelines
- Voluntary guidelines on safety and health management systems, minimizing reliance on worker performance.
Leading Indicators
- Proactive measures to identify, assess, eliminate, minimize and control risks, including worker participation, suggestions, reported hazards, management walkthroughs, and training completion rates.
Evidence-Based Approach
- A rational method, using verifiable evidence, to come to audit conclusions.
Fault Tree Analysis
- Deductive analysis using Boolean logic that links a top event to combinations of basic events.
Contingency Theory
- Organizations, leaders, and decision-making approaches should be tailored to specific internal and external situations.
Systems Theory
- Organizations are viewed as complex systems interacting with their environment.
Management Styles
- Different approaches to decision-making (autocratic, permissive, directive democratic, directive autocratic, permissive autocratic).
Accident and Hazard
- Accident: Unexpected events that cause injury, loss, or damage.
- Hazard: Conditions or circumstances potentially causing an incident, injury, or illness.
Costs of Accidents
- Direct costs: Medical expenses and payments for lost time.
- Indirect costs: Costs not directly related to the accident (loss of production, etc.).
ANSI Z10 and Heinrich's Incident Theories
- ANSI Z10: a standard for safety management systems.
- Heinrich's: a theory relating direct costs to indirect costs (typically 4:1).
Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Cycle
- Plan: set objectives and processes to achieve them
- Do: implement the plan
- Check: monitor and evaluate the plan
- Act: take action to improve the plan
Confined Space and Entry Attendant
- Permit-Required Confined Space: A space with hazardous atmospheres or internal dangers.
- Entry Attendant: Person responsible for monitoring the space outside, preventing unauthorized entry, and emergency response.
Hazard Communication Standard (HCS)
- Evaluates chemical hazards and provides information for exposed employees.
Risk Analysis and Determination
- Analyzes risk frequency and severity.
- Evaluates risk factors (type, location, probability, consequences).
Job Safety Analysis (JSA) and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- JSA: Method to assess job hazards.
- FMEA: A systematic process to identify potential design and process failures.
Other Concepts
- Theory Y Management: Assumes workers are interested and motivated.
- Herzberg Motivational Theory: Two-factor approach to motivation (hygiene factors and motivational factors).
- SWOT Analysis: Tool used to analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
- Manual Rates, Premiums: Workers' compensation insurance rates based on risk factors per state.
Experience Rating, Premium Discounts, and Government Agencies
- Experience Rating: Method to adjust rates based on past losses.
- Premium Discounts: Discounts for lower administrative costs, and rates based on rate books.
- Government Agencies: (DOT, NHTSA, SAE, FMVSS, FHA)).
Hazardous Chemicals, Trade Secrets, Unstable Chemicals, Water Reactive Chemicals, Workplace Safety
- Hazardous Chemicals: Chemicals that pose hazards to workers' safety.
- Trade Secrets: Confidential information used in a business
- Unstable (reactive) Chemicals: Chemicals potentially undergoing dangerous changes.
- Water reactive chemicals: Release flammable or toxic gases when exposed to water.
- Workplace Safety: Work areas with hazardous chemical presence and production
Accident Prevention Strategies
- Frequency Strategy: Reduces frequently occurring accidents.
- Severity Strategy: Reduces severe accidents and damage.
- Cost Strategy: Reduces expensive accidents.
Accident Theories
- Multiple Factor Theory: Accidents are the result of multiple factors.
- Energy Theory: Accidents involve energy transfer.
- Domino Theory: Describes a sequence of events leading to an accident.
Financial Justification
- Process of justifying investments or changes using cost-benefit analysis.
Accident Cost Estimation
- Estimating costs associated with accidents (medical, lost time, property, insurance).
Accident Ratios
- Ratios of unsafe acts to unsafe conditions, injuries caused by these factors (88:10:2).
Risk Management
- Identification and reduction of risks (acceptable risk is the part of identified mishap risk that is allowed to persist without further action).
Risk Types
- Types of accepted risk, default risk, and residual risk.
Risk Mitigation
- Actions to decrease the probability or severity of a hazard.
Risk Assessment
- Process of identifying safety risks and hazard assessment (frequency, severity).
Hazard and Severity
- Hazard: Potential condition causing harm (injury, illness, etc.)
- Severity: Extent of harm or damage from a hazard
Loss Control
- Methods used to reduce losses from accidents, injuries, illness, and property damage.
Probability and Severity
- Probability: Likelihood of a hazard causing an incident.
- Severity: The harm or damage resulting from a hazard.
Risk Analysis and Assessment
- Process of identifying the risk level associated with a situation.
Risk Assessment Techniques
- Methods used to assess the probability and severity of risks (e.g., establishing analysis parameters, selecting risk assessment techniques).
Common Metrics (re-iterated for clarity)
- Budget, Time, Quality, Conflict, Safety (used to evaluate project performance).
Risk Determination and Acceptance
- Identifying the risk, determining the risk estimate (probability x consequence), and deciding on acceptable frequencies and severities of risks.
Risk Characterization and Job Safety Analysis
- Risk Characterization: Analyzing how risk exposures affect people or groups.
- Job Safety Analysis: Method to analyze job hazards.
Safety Management Systems
- A cycle of Plan-Do-Check-Act to continuously improve safety performance.
System Failure
- Single-Point Failure: Failure of one component causing the failure of the entire system.
- Domino Theory: Accident sequence similar to a row of dominoes falling.
- Energy Theory: Accidents involving transfer of energy.
Project Management
- Processes to coordinate and manage a project's planning and completion.
Hazard Communication
- Globally Harmonized System (GHS): System for hazard communication guidelines.
Accident Costs
- Analysis of how to assess costs due to accidents (direct and indirect).
Accident Causation
- Analysis of factors leading to accidents (unsafe acts, conditions, and unpreventable causes).
Risk Management
- Processes for controlling hazards in projects.
Audit and Analysis
- Evidence-Based Approach: Evidence collection methods to come to conclusions
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA): Determines combinations of failures that cause undesired top events.
Human Factors
- Motivational-Hygiene Theory: Motivation and satisfaction based on specific job factors.
- Safety Culture: Group's perception of safety and its enforcement.
- Exposure Limits: Guidelines for permissible worker exposure to hazards (OSHA, NIOSH, ACGIH).
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Protective gear to shield workers from hazards (e.g., chemical protective clothing (CPC)).
Product Liability
- Legal responsibility for injuries associated with products.
Workers' Compensation
- Insurance providing compensation for work-related injuries and illnesses.
Safety Management Systems
- Systems and processes for managing safety at work.
Safety Standards and Analysis
- Standards to improve continuous safety management systems; Cost-benefit analyses, Pareto Principle for evaluating costs and benefits.
Safety Culture and Theories
- Safety culture in the workplace, and factors affecting it (teamwork, recognition, and attitudes).
- Internal audits to review safety matters.
- Motivational-Hygiene Theory: Factors that influence worker satisfaction and safety
SWOT Analysis and Database Management System (DBMS)
- SWOT Analysis: Tool to evaluate an organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
- Database Management System (DBMS): Software used to manage safety data (e.g., PPE, training, inspections).
- Modeling: Methods that analyze physical phenomena, including accident reconstruction, fire effects, and gas dispersion.
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Test your knowledge on management theories, safety management systems, and project management tools. This quiz covers topics such as Fault Tree Analysis, the Globally Harmonized System, and the PDCA cycle. Challenge yourself and enhance your understanding of safety and management principles.
