Workplace Safety and Project Management Quiz

Workers' Compensation

• Refers to payouts for medical expenses, survivor benefits, and accident cleanup costs for injured or ill employees.
• Includes costs for medical care, survivor payments, and legal or travel expenses.

Task Analysis

• A detailed breakdown of elements involved in a project.
• Helps document required resources for project completion.

Common Metrics

• Used to evaluate project performance.
• Includes metrics such as budget status (over/under/on budget), completion time, quality standards met or exceeded, conflict level, and safety incidents.

Risk Analysis

• Utilizes qualitative and quantitative methods to assess risk frequency and severity.

Risk Determination

• Identifies risk type, location, probability, consequences, and risk estimate (probability multiplied by consequences).

Risk Acceptance

• Deciding acceptable risk levels for individuals, companies, and society.

Risk Characterization

• Analyzes the effects of risk exposure on people.

Job Safety Analysis

• A structured method to assess job-related hazards.

Mishap

• An unplanned event resulting in death, injury, damage or other negative consequences.
• Includes damage or loss of equipment, property, or the environment.

SMART Goal

• Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound goal-setting method.

International Labor Organization (ILO) Guidelines

• Voluntary guidelines on safety and health management systems.
• Focuses on minimum personnel involvement.

Leading Indicators

• Proactive measures to reduce risk.
• Includes worker participation, safety suggestions, incident reports, and safety training completion.

Evidence-Based Approach

• A systematic method ensuring verifiable audit conclusions.

Fault Tree Analysis

• A deductive analysis method.
• Uses Boolean logic to relate top events to basic events.

Contingency Theory

• Organizational theory.
• No single best way to organize or operate.
• Optimal approach depends on internal and external factors.

Systems Theory

• Interdisciplinary theory about complex systems.
• Organizations are treated as systems.

Management Styles

• Autocratic: Decisions made unilaterally.
• Permissive: Participation is permitted in decision-making.
• Directive Democrat: Subordinates participate but are closely supervised.
• Directive Autocrat: Decisions are made unilaterally, and subordinates are closely supervised.
• Permissive Democrat: Participation is allowed, and subordinates have latitude.
• Permissive Autocrat: Decisions are made unilaterally, and subordinates have latitude.

Accident and Hazard

• Accident: Unexpected event causing injury or damage.
• Hazard: Condition with potential to cause an accident.

Costs of Accidents

• Direct Costs: Medical expenses, time away from work.
• Indirect Costs: Lost productivity, hidden costs like investigation or replacement employees.

ANSI Z10 and Heinrich's Incident Theories

• ANSI Z10: Voluntary standard for occupational health and safety management.
• Heinrich: Theory proposing a ratio of 4:1 between direct and indirect accident costs.

Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Cycle

• Plan: Set objectives and processes.
• Do: Implement plans.
• Check: Monitor and evaluate results.
• Act: Correct and improve the plan.

Confined Space and Entry Attendant

• Identification and procedures for confined spaces.
• Roles of individuals stationed inside and outside the space.

Hazard Communication Standard (HCS)

• Requires evaluation of chemical hazards.
• Transmission of hazard info to exposed employees.

Risk Analysis and Risk Determination

• Qualitative and quantitative techniques for risk assessment.
• Evaluation of risk type, location, probability, risk, and consequence.

Job Safety Analysis and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

• Systematic hazard assessment methods for job functions and processes respectively.
• FMEA is for identifying design/process issues prior to occurrence.

Other Concepts

• Theory Y: Workers are motivated to perform tasks.
• Herzberg Motivational Theory: Two categories of factors influencing motivation (hygiene and motivational).
• SWOT Analysis: Identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
• Manual Rates and Premiums: Insurance rates based on specific criteria.

Experience Rating

• Rating of loss frequency and severity of employment classes.

Premium Discounts

• Discounts for managing larger companies' insurance.
• Lower administrative costs for insurers.

Government Agencies

• DOT, NHTSA, SAE, FMVSS, and FHA involved in transportation and vehicle safety standards.

Safety Management Systems

• OSHA standards for process safety management that focuses on preventing releases of hazardous chemicals.
• Threshold limit value (TLV) is the permissible exposure limit.

Hazardous Chemicals

• Trade Secrets (confidential information/formulas).
• Unstable/reactive chemicals.
• Water-reactive chemicals.

Workplace Safety

• Defined work location where hazardous chemicals are present or utilized.

Accident Prevention Strategies

• Strategies to reduce accidents based on their frequency, severity, and costs.
• Frequency: Reducing frequent accidents.
• Severity: Reducing severe accidents.
• Cost: Reducing costly accidents.

Accident Theories

• Multiple Factor: Accidents involving multiple factors
• Energy: Energy transfer involved in accidents.
• Domino: A series of events leading to accidents.

Financial Justification

• Justifying investments based on their financial benefits.

Accident Cost Estimation

• Calculating costs by dividing accidents into classes, using accounting records, and determining insured and uninsured costs.

Accident Ratios

• Ratio of unsafe acts to unsafe conditions and incident-injury ratio.
• Frequencies of accidents caused by unsafe acts and unsafe conditions.

Risk Management

• Determining acceptable risks, which are risks that can be allowed.

Risk Types

• Accepted risk: Understandable and accepted.
• Residual risk: Remaining risk after preventative measures.

Risk Mitigation

• Reducing risk by changing the hazard causing it.

ALARP and Task Analysis

• ALARP (as low as reasonably practicable), a method of risk management.
• Task analysis: breaking down an action or task into its constituent steps, which are important in defining the resources for task accomplishment and setting appropriate expectations.

Risk Analysis and Assessment

• Identifying hazards to determine risk probability and severity.
• Evaluating hazard causal factors and the relationship between hazard severity and probability.

Risk Assessment Techniques

• Establishing parameters for assessment.
• Selecting risk assessment techniques.

Hazard and Severity

• Hazard definition and severity evaluation.

Loss Control

• Proactive measures to reduce losses.

Probability and Severity

• Likelihood and extent of harm or damage from a hazard.