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10 steps for Incident Investigation
- 1. Provide emergency repsonse
- 2. secure the area
- 3. Identify potential witnesses
- 4. have investigative tools available
- 5. collect hard evidence and reocrd the data
- 6. conduct interviews
- 7. reivew data
- 8. prepare an investigation report
- 9. implement corrective actions
- 10. follow up
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Indirect costs of an incident
- much larger than direct costs and not as easily seen
- examples:
- repair, replace or stragigthen material
- supverisor wages to investigate accident
- training replacement workers
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direct costs of an accident
Example: medical bills
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Safety and Health audits are designed to ...?
- Best Answer: determine if a program is following the plan
- Other good answers:
- 1. ensure compliance with codes and standards
- 2. measure cost reductions due to accident prevention activities
- 3. check on recordkeeping completenss and accurancy
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2 types of audits
program reivew and field audit
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EmergencyAction Plans Require what 3 things?
- 1. Escape procedures and escape route assignment.
- 2. Procedures for employees required to remain and operate critial equipment.
- 3. Procedures to account for all employees.
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Basic Emergency Preparedness Plan will have 6 things...
- 1. Chain of Command
- 2. Alarm system
- 3. Medical Treatment Plans
- 4. Communication System
- 5. Shutdown and Evacuation Proceedure
- 6. Auxilary power system
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Reasons for pre-employment physicals?
determine suitability of the new hire for the position to which they are being considered.
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Values
principles that employees in an organization use to guide their behavior.
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Norms
Rules of the game and often modeled after the behavior of key leaders in the organization
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Jargon
the language of the organization
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Rituals
cerimonial acts that convey organizational values as well as information about the way you function.
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Types of OSHA citations (4)
- Willful
- Failure to Abate
- Serious
- Other than serious
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Willful
employer intentionally and knowingly commits a violation that the employer connits with planned indifference. Up to $10,000
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Failure to Abate
An employer fails to correct a previously cited violation beyond the abtement date. up to $7,000/day
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Serious
substatial probability that death or serious physical harm could result and that the employer knew or should have known of the hazards. Up to $7,000
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Other than Serious
a direct relationship to job safety, but not likely to cause death or serious physical harm. Up to $7,000
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OSHA Inspections - Employer Rights (3)
- 1. Be advised of the reson for the inspection.
- 2. Accompany the compliance officer on the inspection.
- 3. Have an opening and closing conference with the compliance officer.
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When was OSHA Born?
1970 congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act
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49 CFR is?
Department of Transportation
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29 CFR 1926 is
Construction standard
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29 CFR 1910
general industry
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Prevelence
refers to the number of cases with a disease to the total number in the study.
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The major emphasis of the science of empidemiology as it relates to disease is
a. cure
b. prevention
c. research
d. data collection
prevention
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Epidemiolgical studies that attemp to note the number of cases of a specific disease in a specific time period are known as?
a. inductive studies
b. biological studies
c. discriptive studies
d. risk factor studies
discriptive studies
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When an OSHA standard only applies to a particular industry it is called?
vertical
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