Workplace Safety and Risk Management Quiz

Topic: Safety Management Systems

• Safety is important for humanitarian reasons, legal compliance, and cost considerations.
• An accident is an unexpected event that results in injury, loss, or damage.
• A hazard is a condition or circumstance that has the potential to cause an incident, injury, illness, or other loss.
• Direct costs are expenses such as medical costs and time off work for the injured employee.
• Indirect costs are hidden costs such as time wasted, lost production, and costs for supporting an injured employee.
• ANSI Z10 is a voluntary consensus standard on occupational health and safety management systems.
• Heinrich's Incident Theories proposes a 4:1 ratio between direct and indirect costs.
• ANSI is the American National Standards Institute.
• AIHA is the American Industrial Hygiene Association.
• The PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle is used for developing a safety system.

Topic: Single-Point Failure

• A single-point failure is a component or subsystem failure that causes the entire system or process to fail.

Topic: Domino Theory

• The domino theory in accident analysis proposes that an accident is a chain of events, like falling dominoes.

Topic: Energy Theory

• The theory proposes most incidents involve an energy transfer between objects or people.

Topic: Project Management

• The cycle for defining, initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals.

Topic: Gantt Charts

• A time and activity bar chart for planning, managing and controlling major projects with distinct beginnings and ends..

Topic: Globally Harmonized System (GHS)

• An international approach to communication, classification, and labeling of chemical hazards and safety data sheets.

Topic: Safety Data Sheets (SDS)

• A document required by OSHA to convey hazard communication about the material.

Topic: GHS Label Elements-Symbols

• Hazard information is conveyed by pictograms framed in red diamonds.

Topic: GHS Label Elements-Hazard Statements

• Standard phrases used to avoid potential hazards.

Topic: GHS Label Elements-Precautionary Statements

• Standardized statements to prevent or avoid adverse effects or potential hazards.

Topic: GHS Label Elements-Product Identifier

• An ingredient disclosure describing names, identifying numbers, and chemical identities.

Topic: GHS Label Elements-Supplier Identification

• The names, addresses, and telephone numbers for the product's supplier.

Topic: GHS Label Elements-Supplemental Information

• Information that further clarifies standardized hazard information.

Topic: Carcinogenicity

• The ability of a substance to cause cancer.

Topic: LC50

• Concentration at which 50% of a population is killed by exposure.

Topic: LD50

• Dose at which 50% of a population is killed by exposure.

Topic: Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL)

• Standards for employee exposure set by OSHA.

Topic: Recommended Exposure Limit (REL)

• OSHA standards for employee exposure set by NIOSH.

Topic: Threshold Limit Value (TLV)

• A limit set by the ACGIH, representing the maximum acceptable exposure of workers to a hazard over a specific period of time.

Topic: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• Safety equipment to protect a user from exposure to a hazard.

Topic: Chemical Protective Clothing (CPC)

• Protective equipment to protect a user from chemical exposure.

Topic: Implied Warranty

• A product does not perform according to the manufacturer's claims.

Topic: Express Warranty

• A guarantee of what a product can do, often used in advertising.

Topic: Negligence

• Failure caused by a person or corporation, a lack of due diligence or inappropriate actions.

Topic: Strict Liability

• When characteristics of a product are unreasonably dangerous.

Topic: Workers' Compensation Insurance

• A system for protecting workers from unforeseen job incidents.

Topic: Workers' Compensation

• Acts to proactively protect workers from financial losses from workplace accidents.

Topic: Manual Rates

• Premiums are applied directly, equally for all companies in the state's ratebook.

Topic: Schedule Rates

• Employers can seek discounts by utilizing hazard reduction techniques.

Topic: Experience Rating Prospective

• Average losses are determined for employment classifications.

Topic: Experience Rating Retrospectively

• Claims affect rates in a policy year.

Topic: Fixed Rate Premiums

• Manual rates in effect when the policy is issued.

Topic: Premium Discounts

• Premium discounts are possible due to lower administrative costs of insuring large companies.

Topic: Competitive Premium Rates

• Insurance rates are based on the same manual rate book for all companies.

Topic: Department of Transportation (DOT)

• The federal government agency governing economic concerns in the transport industry.

Topic: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

• The federal government agency administering highway traffic safety.

Topic: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

• The professional society for automotive engineers.

Topic: Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS)

• Federal safety standards for motor vehicles.

Topic: Federal Highway Administration (FHA)

• The federal agency administering highway construction and maintenance.

Topic: Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC)

• The concentration level of alcohol in the blood.

Topic: Process Safety Management

• A standard developed by OSHA.

Topic: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• An independent federal agency coordinating programs aimed at regulating pollution.

Topic: Permit-Required Confined Space

• A space containing hazardous atmospheres, materials that engulf, traps, or asphyxiates the entrant, or other serious safety/health hazards.

Topic: Entry Attendant

• The person stationed outside the confined space to monitor conditions, prevent unauthorized entry, and summon emergency services if necessary.

Topic: Authorized Entrant

• The specific person authorized to enter a permit-required confined space.

Topic: Hazard Communication Standard (HCS)

• First duty: evaluating all U.S. imports/productions of chemicals for physical and health hazards. Second duty: transmitting this information to exposed employees.

Topic: Acute Exposure

• Short duration, high concentration exposure to hazardous chemicals. It usually causes symptoms within 24 hours.

Topic: Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health

• The assistant or designated rep for occupational Safety and Health administration

Topic: Article

• A manufactured item with a specific form, function and design, typically dependent on its form for functionality.

Topic: Chemical (Materials)

• An element, compound, or mixture of elements or compounds.

Topic: Chemical Manufacturers

• Employers, in workplaces where chemicals are produced or distributed.

Topic: Chemical Name

• Scientific designation according to the IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) and CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) systems.

Topic: Chronic Exposure

• Repeated exposure to low-level concentrations of hazardous chemicals.

Topic: Common Name

• A designation for a chemical other than the chemical name. Any code number or general designation including brand or trade name.

Topic: Compressed Gas

• Gasses, with a container, exceeding 40 psi at 70 degrees F (or 104 psi at 130 degrees F) or exceeding vapor pressure exceeding 40 psi at 100 degrees F.

Topic: Container

• For the purpose of HCS, a bag, barrel, or other vessel for holding hazardous chemicals that is not a part of a piping or operating system.

Topic: Designated representative

• A person or entity given a written authorization to exercise employee rights under safety codes.

Topic: Director (of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)

• Responsible for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Topic: Distributor

• A business that supplies hazardous chemicals to other, non-manufacturing, distributors or to employees.

Topic: Employee

• A worker who may be exposed to hazardous chemicals in any work condition or foreseeable emergency.

Topic: Employer

• A person engaged in a business where chemicals are used, distributed, or produced, or a contractor or subcontractor in such a business.

Topic: Explosive

• A chemical that produces a sudden release of gas, pressure or heat when exposed to sudden shock, pressure or high temperature.

Topic: Exposure or exposure posed

• The instance of being exposed to or the potential to be exposed to hazardous chemical(s) while at work.

Topic: Flammable

• A chemical that forms a flammable mixture with air, is highly flammable, or in liquid/solid form.

Topic: Flammable Liquid

• A liquid with a flash point temperature below 100 degrees F.

Topic: Flashpoint

• Minimum temperature for a liquid to give off any vapor in an enough concentration to be ignitable.

Topic: Hazardous Chemical

• Any chemical that poses a health hazard or physical hazard in the workplace.

Topic: Hazard Warning

• A warning of hazards in the form of words, symbols, pictures or combination thereof on labels or other forms of warnings to convey information on the container.

Topic: Health Hazard

Topic: Identity

Topic: Immediate Use

• The hazardous chemical will be used, controlled, or transferred by only one person over the same work shift.

Topic: Inherently Dangerous to Life & Health (IDL&H)

• The maximum level possible of hazardous materials that a worker can be exposed to for 30 minutes without suffering harm.

Topic: Importer

• The first business entity in the US that receives hazardous chemicals produced outside of the US for distribution within the US.

Topic: Label (of Hazard Information)

• Any written, printed, or graphic material displayed on or affixed to a container for hazardous chemicals.

Topic: Mixture

• Any combination of 2 or more substances not chemically combined.

Topic: Organic Peroxide

Topic: Oxidizer

Topic: Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL)

• Allowable exposure limit to certain substances in a workplace . 8-hour working day or 40 hours per week. Set by NIOSH and enforced by OSHA.

Topic: Physical Hazard

• A chemical having a particular physical form, which includes combustible liquid, compressed gas, explosive, flammable, organic peroxide, oxidizer, pyrophoric, unstable (reactive), or water-reactive.

Topic: Produce

Topic: Pyrophoric

• A chemical that will ignite spontaneously in air at a temperature of 130 degrees F or below.

Topic: Responsible Party

• The person who can provide information about the specific hazards and applicable emergency response procedures.

Topic: Specific Chemical Identity

• The precise chemical designation described for identification of a substance.

Topic: Threshold Limit Value (TLV)

Topic: Threshold Limit Value Ceiling (TLV-C)

Topic: Threshold Limit Value Short-Term Exposure Limit (TLV-STEL)

Topic: Threshold Limit Value Time-Weighted Average (TLV-TWA)

Topic: Trade Secret

• Confidential information or data used by an employer that gives them an advantage over competitors.

Topic: Unstable (Reactive)

Topic: Usage

Topic: Water-Reactive

Topic: Work Area

Topic: Workplace

Topic: Hazard Control

Topic: Prevention Safety Engineering

Topic: Safety Practices

Topic: Gross Negligence

Topic: Contributory Negligence

Topic: Comparative Negligence

Topic: Willful/Reckless Conduct

Topic: Liability

Topic: Care

Topic: Reasonable Care

Topic: Great Care

Topic: Slight Care

Topic: Selecting Preventative Actions

Topic: Heinrich's Axioms of Industrial Safety

Topic: Petersen's Accident/Incident Theory

Topic: Ergonomic Traps

Topic: Systems Failure

Topic: Common Causes of Accidents

Topic: Reactive Approach to Accident Prevention

Topic: Proactive Approach to Accident Prevention

Topic: Frequency Strategy

Topic: Severity Strategy

Topic: Cost Strategy

Topic: Multiple-Factor Theory

Topic: Factors Affecting Incidents

Topic: Energy Theory

Topic: Domino Theory

Topic: Financial Justification

Topic: Hierarchy of Controls

Topic: Physical Controls

Topic: Work Practice Controls

Topic: Workers' Compensation Insurance

Topic: Experience Modification Factor (X-Mod)

Topic: Comprehensive Case Management

Topic: Workers' Compensation Laws

Topic: Business Continuity Plan

Topic: System Failures

Topic: Emergency Response Plan

Topic: Disaster Recovery Plan

Topic: Sheltering in Place

Topic: Investigations

Topic: Immediate Accident Investigation

Topic: Incident Reporting System

Topic: Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Topic: Audit

Topic: Inspections

Topic: Effective Audit Program

Topic: Internal Audit

Topic: External Audit

Topic: ISO Registrar

Topic: Combined Audit

Topic: Joint Audit

Topic: Basic steps of BBS Process

Topic: Nonconformance Areas

Topic: Areas of Concern

Topic: Opportunities for Improvement

Topic: Estimating the Cost of Accidents

Topic: Product Liability

Topic: Reason Action Able Injury or Damage

Topic: Losses

Topic: Direct Costs

Topic: Task Analysis

Topic: Common Metrics Used to Assess Performance

Topic: Risk Analysis

Topic: Risk Determination

Topic: Risk Acceptance

Topic: Risk Characterization

Topic: Job Safety Analysis

Topic: Job Safety Analysis (JSA)

Topic: Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP)

Topic: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)

Topic: Change Analysis

Topic: SWOT Analysis

Topic: Database Management System (DBMS)

Topic: Modeling

Topic: Energy Analysis

Topic: Fire Safety Concepts Tree

Topic: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

Topic: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)

Topic: Change Analysis

Topic: SWOT Analysis

Topic: Database Management Systems (DBMS)

Topic: Modeling

Topic: Hazard Communication Standard

Topic: Global Harmonization System (GHS)

Topic: Safety Data Sheets (SDS)

Topic: Sections of the SDS

Topic: Carcinogenicity

Topic: ISO 14001

Topic: Management Review System

Topic: Threshold Limit Value (TLV)

Topic: Threshold Limit Value Ceiling (TLV-C)

Topic: Threshold Limit Value Short-term Exposure Limit (TLV-STEL)

Topic: Threshold Limit Value Time-Weighted Average (TLV-TWA)

Topic: Trade Secret

Topic: Unstable (Reactive)

Topic: Usage

Topic: Water-reactive

Topic: Work Area

Topic: Workplace

Topic: Hazard Control

Topic: Prevention Safety Engineering

Topic: Safety Practices

Topic: Gross Negligence

Topic: Contributory Negligence

Topic: Comparative Negligence

Topic: Willful/Reckless Conduct

Topic: Liability

Topic: Care

Topic: Reasonable Care

Topic: Great Care

Topic: Slight Care

Topic: Selecting Preventative Actions

Topic: Heinrich's Axioms of Industrial Safety

Topic: Petersen's Accident/Incident Theory

Topic: Ergonomic Traps

Topic: Systems Failure

Topic: Common Causes of Accidents

Topic: Reactive Approach to Accident Prevention

Topic: Proactive Approach to Accident Prevention

Topic: Frequency Strategy

Topic: Severity Strategy

Topic: Cost Strategy

Topic: Multiple-Factor Theory

Topic: Factors Affecting Incidents

Topic: Energy Theory

Topic: Domino Theory

Topic: Financial Justification

Topic: Hierarchy of Controls

Topic: Physical Controls

Topic: Work Practice Controls

Topic: Workers' Compensation Insurance

Topic: Experience Modification Factor (X-Mod)

Topic: Comprehensive Case Management

Topic: Workers' Compensation Laws

Topic: Business Continuity Plan

Topic: System Failures

Topic: Emergency Response Plan

Topic: Disaster Recovery Plan

Topic: Sheltering in Place

Topic: Investigations

Topic: Immediate Accident Investigation

Topic: Incident Reporting System

Topic: Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Topic: Audit

Topic: Inspections

Topic: Effective Audit Program

Topic: Internal Audit

Topic: External Audit

Topic: ISO Registrar

Topic: Combined Audit

Topic: Joint Audit

Topic: Basic steps of BBS Process

Topic: Nonconformance Areas

Topic: Areas of Concern

Topic: Opportunities for Improvement

Topic: Estimating the Cost of Accidents

Topic: Product Liability

Topic: Reason Action Able Injury or Damage

Topic: Losses

Topic: Direct Costs

Topic: Task Analysis

Topic: Common Metrics Used to Assess Performance

Topic: Risk Analysis

Topic: Risk Determination

Topic: Risk Acceptance

Topic: Risk Characterization

Topic: Job Safety Analysis

Topic: Job Safety Analysis (JSA)

Topic: Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP)

Topic: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)

Topic: Change Analysis

Topic: SWOT Analysis

Topic: Database Management Systems (DBMS)

Topic: Modeling

Topic: Energy Analysis

Topic: Fire Safety Concepts Tree

Topic: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

Topic: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)

Topic: Change Analysis

Topic: SWOT Analysis

Topic: Database Management Systems (DBMS)

Topic: Modeling

Topic: Hazard Communication Standard

Topic: Global Harmonization System (GHS)

Topic: Safety Data Sheets (SDS)

Topic: Sections of the SDS

Topic: Carcinogenicity

Topic: ISO 14001

Topic: Management Review System

Topic: Threshold Limit Value (TLV)

Topic: Threshold Limit Value Ceiling (TLV-C)

Topic: Threshold Limit Value Short-term Exposure Limit (TLV-STEL)

Topic: Threshold Limit Value Time-Weighted Average (TLV-TWA)

Topic: Trade Secret

Topic: Unstable (Reactive)

Topic: Usage

Topic: Water-reactive

Topic: Work Area

Topic: Workplace