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OH&S Flashcards

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Lost-time Injury

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A workplace injury that results in the employee missing time.

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Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S)

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The identification, evaluation, and control of hazards associated with the work environment.

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Occupational Injury

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Any cit, fracture, sprain, or amputation resulting from a workplace accident.

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Occupational Illness

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Any abnormal condition or disorder caused by exposure to environmental factors associated with employment.

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Brown Lung

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A disease of the lungs caused by excessive inhalation of dust; the disease is in the pneumoconiosis family and often afflicts textile workers.

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Assumption of Risk

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The belief that a worker accepted the risk of employment when he or she accepted a job.

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Accident Proneness

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The notion that some individuals are inherently more likely than others to be involved in accidents, as a result of individual characteristics.

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Due Diligence

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An expected standard of conduct that requires employers to take every reasonable precaution to ensure safety.

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Internal Responsibility System

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The system of shared responsibility for health and safety that is the basis for most Canadian OH&S Legislation.

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The Three Es

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A traditional approach to OHS that emphasized engineering, education, and enforcement.

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Act

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A federal, provincial, or territorial law that constitutes the basic regulatory mechanism for occupational health and safety.

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Regulations

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Explain how the general intent of the act will be applied in specific circumstances.

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Constructor

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In health and safety legislation, a person or company that oversees the construction of a project and that is ultimately responsible for the health and safety of all workers.

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Collective Liability

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Where all employers in a class or other rate group are liable for the costs of any or all accidents and occupational diseases that occur in the operations of those employers.

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Net Earnings

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Salary after mandatory deductions (income tax, Canada Pension, and Employer Insurance).

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Loss of Functional Capacity

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Limit of ability or dexterity depending on the seriousness of an injury.

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Vocational Rehabilitation

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The steps undertaken by WCBs to help injured workers return to their place of employment or find similar or suitable work elsewhere.

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Physical Rehabilitation

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The steps taken to restore, fully or partially, the worker’s physical function.

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Social Rehabilitation

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The psychological and practical services that help workers with severe disabilities cope with daily life.

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Latency Period

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The time between exposure to a cause and development of a disease.

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Hazard

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Any source of potential adverse health effect, damage, or harm on something or someone under certain conditions at work.

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Incident

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An event or occurence that has or could have had a negative impact on people, property, or process.

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Risk

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The probability or the extent to which a hazard is likely to cause harm to people, processes, or equipment.

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Risk Perception

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An individual’s interpretation of the potential for harm based on values, beliefs, and experience with a hazard.

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Unsafe Act

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A deviation from standard job procedures or practices that increases a worker’s exposure to a hazard.

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Human Factor

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When a person causes an accident by commision, poor judgment, or omission (failing to do something).

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Walk-through Survey

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A survey in which a safety professional walks through a worksite and notes hazards.

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Saftey Sampling

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A systematic survey procedure undertaken by safety personnel who record their observations of unsafe practices on a sampling document.

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Job Description

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The content and hierarchy specific to a particular job.

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Job Specifications

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The requirements necessary to perform the various functions of a job (e.g., ability to lift weight, education level).

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Hazard Analysis

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An orderly, analytical technique that examines a system for the most probable hazards having the severest consequences, for the purpose of establishing corrective or control mechanisms.

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Positive Tree

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Shows, graphically, how a job should be done.

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Fault Tree

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An illustration of things that can go wrong.

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Overt Traumatic Injuries

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Injuries resulting from coming into contact with an energy source.

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Overexertion Injuries

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Injuries resulting from excessive physical effort, repetitive motions, and, possibly, awkward working positions.

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Hazard Control

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The program or process used to establish preventative and corrective measures.

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Precontact Control

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Addressing issues before an incident or accident occurs.

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Contact Control

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Identifying ways in which a hazardous situation can be prevented from becoming worse and harming workers.

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Postcontact Control

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Putting in place medical and cleanup operations and ensuring that the event cannot be repeated.

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Engineering Control

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Modification of work processes, equipment, and materials to reduce exposure to hazards.

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Machine Guarding

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Protection for workers from the hazards and energies created by moving machinery.

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Administrative Control

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Management involvment, training of employees, rotation of employees, environmental sampling, and medical surveillance to protect individuals.

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Preventive Maintenance

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The orderly, continuous, and scheduled protection and repair of equipment and buildings.

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Physical Agents

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Sources of energy that may cause injury or disease.

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Ambient

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All-encompassing condition associated with a given environment, being usually a composite of inputs from sources all around us.

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Early Warning Change

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A deterioration of hearing in the upper frequency–the earliest detectable sign of noise-induced hearing loss.

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Vasoconstriction

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The process of causing a constriction of the blood vessles.

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Hyperreflexia

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The condition of unusually quick reaction by the nerves to some external stimulus.

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Attenuated or Attenuation

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Reduction of noise at one location compared to another farther from the source.

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Segmental Vibration

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Affects only parts of the body.

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Whole-body Vibration

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Affects the whole body as a unit.

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Necrosis

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Death or decay of tissue.

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Decalcification

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Loss of lime salts (calcium) in the bones.

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Resonance

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The effect that occurs when an object reacts strongly to some particular frequency.

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Homeostasis

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The balance of heat generation.

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Conduction

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Heat transfer occuring when two surfaces are in contact.

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Convection

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Heat transfer occuring when one surface adds heat to the surroundings.

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Radiation

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Heat transfer occuring when energy is transmitted by electromagnetic waves.

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Toxicity

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Ability to cause injurt to human biological tissue.

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Aerosols

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Airborne respirable contaminants, such as liquid droplets or solid particulate, dispersed in air, that are of a fine enough particle size to remain suspended for a time.

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Routes of Entry

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Respiration, skin absorbtion, ingestion, and skin penetration.

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Turbinates

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Spiral or spongy sections of the respiratory system that have a centrifugal effect to help remove aerosols.

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Target Organs

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Tissues or organs that are most affected by exposure to a particular substance.

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Surfactant Layer

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Layer of liquids in the digestive tract and elsewhere that modify or reduce the surface tension within the conductors to move easily.

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Boiling Point

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Temperature at which the vapour pressure of a liquid equals atmospheric pressure.

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Dermatitis

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The inflammation of the skin from any cause.

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Biological Agents

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Natural organisims or products of organisims that present a risk to humans.

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Agents

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Any substances–Chemical, biological, or phisical–to which a human may be exposed at work or at home.

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Psychologically Healthy and Safe Workplace

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A workplace that promotes workers’ psychological well-being and actively works to prevent harm to workers’ psychological health including in negligent, reckless, or intentional ways.

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Psychosocial Model of Health

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Approach to the study of health that highlights the importance of both the social environment and psychological factors.

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Stressor

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An objectively verifiable event that occurs outside the individual that has the potential to cause stress.

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Stress

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An individual’s internal response to, or evaluation of, stressors; often characterized by negative feelings of arousal.

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General Adaptation Syndrome

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The body’s way of gearing up for fight or flight.

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Moderator

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A variable that changes the relationship between two other variables.

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Risk Factor

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A variable that increases the negative effects of stress.

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Buffer

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A variable that protects people from the negative effects of stress.

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Type A Behaviour

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Action-emotion complex that can be observed in any person who is aggressively involved in a chronic, incessant struggle to achieve increasingly more in increasingly less time.

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Negative Affectivity

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A dispositional dimension reflecting persistent individual differences in the experience of negative emotion.

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Strain

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The result of stress; it is classified into four categories of reactions: psychological, physical, behavioural, and organizational.

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Preventive Stress Management

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AN approach to managing stress in the workplace that emphasized that the health of an organization and its employees are interdependent; encourages the reduction of stressors in the workplace as well as the recognition and management of occupational stress and strain.

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Tertiary Interventions

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Stress intervention techniques that are used to help those individuals who have not been able to manage workplace stress effectively and who are now experiencing symptoms of strain.

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Distributive Justice

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The perceived fairness of outcomes.

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Procedural Justice

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The perceived fairness of decision-making processes.

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Interactional Justice

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The perceived fairness of interpersonal treatment.

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Work-family Conflict

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A type of inter-role conflict in which the role pressures experienced in the work and family domains are incompatible.

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Work-to-family Conflict

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A form of work-family conflict in which work demands interfere with the fulfillment of family responsibilities.

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Family-to-work Conflict

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A form of work-family conflict in which family demands interfere with the fulfillment of work responsibilities.

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Behavioural Involvement

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The amount of time a person spends in a particular role.

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Psychological Involvement

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The degree to which a person identifies with a particular role and sees the role as a central component of his or her self-concept.

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Type 1 Violence

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Violence committed by someone with no legitimate relationship to the organization, often while committing another criminal act.

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Type 2 Violence

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Violence committed by clients of customers of the organization.

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Type 3 Violence

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Violence committed by coworkers.

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Type 4 Violence

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Violence committed by the spouse or partner of the victim.

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Imminent Risk

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The short-term risk of violence occurring in the current situation.

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Assault Cycle

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A model suggesting that violence occurs only after a period of escalation.

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Instructional Systems Design (ISD) model of Training

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A general model of the training process that incorporates needs analysis, training design and delivery, and training evaluation and that notes the interdependencies among the three major components of the training.

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Needs Analysis

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The initial stage of the training development process, intended to identify employee and organizational deficiencies that can be addressed with training and to recognize potential obstacles to the success of a training program.

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Organizational Analysis

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An analysis of the entire organization designed to examine its resources, strategy, and environment in order to assess the organization’s support for training.

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Safety Climate

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Employee’s shared perceptions of the importance of safety in the workplace.

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Train the Trainer

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Programs designed to offer subject matter experts in various content areas skills in program delivery and communication.

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Training Evaluation

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A component of the ISD training movel designed to assess the value added for individuals and organizations following the implementation of a training program.

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Close Call

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A series of events that could hace led to a safety incident but did not.

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Lost-time Injuries

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A workplace injury that results in the employee missing time from work.

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Safety Compliance

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The extent to which employees follow safety rules and procedures.

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Safety Participation

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The extent to which employees go beyond compliance and engage proactively improve safety.

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Safety Motivation

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An Individual’s willingness to exert effort to enact safety behaviour and the valence associated with those behaviours.

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Amotivation

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Complete lack of motivation.

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Intrinsic Motivation

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Motivation based on one’s interest and enjoyment.

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Extrinsic Motivation

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Motivation rooted in instrumental reasons for acting.

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Autonomous Motivation

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Self-directed motivation reflecting an individual’s free will.

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Controlled Motivation

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Motivation based in response to pressure.

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Safety Climate

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Employees’ shared perceptions of the importance of safety in the workplace.

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Safety Leadership

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Organizational leadership that is actively focused on and promotes occupational health and safety.

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Active Transactional Leadership

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A form of leadership based on the foundation that leaders actively communicate to followers the tasks that are required to meet expectations.

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Contingent Reward

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A form of active transactional leadership in which leaders reward employees who meet their communicated expectations.

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Management by Exception (active)

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A form of active transactional leadership in which leaders monitor workers’ actions and step in with corrective action when needed to prevent serious problems from occuring.

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Transformational Leadership

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Highly effective approach to leadership that emphasizes employee well-being and is characterized by idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration.

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Occupational Health and Safety Management System

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Par of the overall manageent of the organization that addresses OH&S hazards and risks associated with its activities.

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1-Fire: 2-Incipient Stage: 3-Smouldering Stage: 4-Free-burning Stage: 5-Uncontrolled Fire Stage

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1- a chemical process in which fuel, oxygen, and heat are combined.
2- a source of ignition and fuel come together.
3- fuel, oxygen, and heat are present and are causing the heat to rise through limited chain reaction.
4- the stage at which flames first appear.
5- fire is out of control and major property damage is under way.

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Reactive Material

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Causes a violent, explosive reaction when it comes in contacat with another material, such as acetylene with water, or bleach with chlorinated cleaner.

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RAC Program

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A hazard recognition, assessment, and control program; a key element in most health and safety programs.

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Critical Factors in the Investigative Process?

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Timing, Severity, and legal Requirements.

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Types of information collected for critical factors investigations? (OHS)

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Human Factors, Situational Factors, Environmental Factors.

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Investigative Methods to finding critical factors? (OHS)

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Walkthroughs, Interviews, and Re-enactments.

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Domino Theory

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The theory that every incident results from a series of events.

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Normal Incidents

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The theory that incidents are expected outcomes of interactive complexities.

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High-reliability Organizations

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Organizations in hazardous industries that maintain a high safety record over time.

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Cognitive Failure

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A mistake or failure in the performance of an action that an individual is normally capable of performing.

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Positive Safety Climate

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Organizational context with a well-communicated commitment to occupational health and safety; employees generally share the perception that their safety is valued.

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Supported and Sheltered Work

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Modified work arrangements designed to help those with permanent disabilities who have either not been successful in competitive work environments or require substantial support to return to work.

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