102 Safety Fundamentals Flashcards
What term describes a conditions with the potential to cause personal injury or death, property damage or mission degradation?
Hazard
What term is an expression of possible loss in terms of severity and probability?
Risk
What is the process of detecting hazards and assessing associated risks?
Risk assessment
What are the five steps in the process of ORM?
Identify Hazards Assess Hazards Make Risk Decisions Implement Controls Supervise
In which step of the ORM process would you make an outline or chart of the major steps in the operation?
Identify hazards
In which step of the ORM process would you conduct preliminary hazard analysis along with possible causes for those hazards?
Identify hazards
In which step of the ORM process would you determine the associated degree of risk in terms of probability and severity for each hazard identified?
Assess hazards
In which step of the ORM process would you find measures that can be used to eliminate hazards or reduce the degree of risk?
Implement controls
In which step of the ORM process would you conduct close follow up evaluations?
supervise
In which step of the ORM process would you monitor for changes which may require further ORM?
Supervise
What are the four principles of ORM?
Accept risk when benefits outweigh the cost
Accept no unnecessary risk
Anticipate and manage risk by planning
Make risk decision at the right level
At what dBA levels is hearing protection required?
84dB (8 hour TWA)
140 dB peak sound pressure
What term describes any material that because of its quantity, concentration, or physical or chemical characteristics, may pose a substantial hazard to human health or the environment when incorrectly used?
Hazardous material
What term describes a discarded material which meets the definition of hazardous material?
Hazardous waste
What information can be found on MSDS?
composition
chemical and physical characteristics
health and safety hazards
precautions for safe handling
