Intro To Safety

Question 1

What is an Accident?

Answer 1

An unplanned event caused by unsafe acts or unsafe conditions

Usually there is an investigation

Question 2

What is an incident?

Answer 2

An incident is an unplanned and unwanted event which disrupts the work process and has the potential of resulting in injury, harm, or damage to persons or property

Usually no investigation

Question 3

What are hazards?

Answer 3

A condition that has the potential to produce injury and/or property damage

Question 4

What is risk?

Answer 4

• The probability that a hazard will be activated and produces injury or property damage.
• The quantifiable likelihood of loss or less than expected returns
• It can be two fold: frequency and severity
  l. ) the frequency that a negative situation will occur
  ll.) the severity of injury or damage if the hazard is activated

Question 5

What is Safety?

Answer 5

· An everchanging condition in which one attempts to eliminate hazards or minimize the risk of injury, illness, or property damage from the hazards to which one may be exposed.
· Freedom from unacceptable risk

Question 6

Why Safety? (3 Reasons)

Answer 6

l.) Moral/humanitarian/ethical
· to protect our most important asset, our employees
· to help create a superior employee experience
ll.) Legal
· to maintain compliance with federal, state and local
environmental, health and safety laws
lll.) Economics/Financial
· To reduce risks to the corporation
· To reduce costs to the company by reducing accidents,
injuries and illnesses, and insurance premium

Question 7

What are the two types of cost?

Answer 7

-Direct Cost: Ex: medical costs compensation
-Indirect Cost: Ex: lost production, re-training, poor morale, OSHA fines

Question 8

What are 3 overturned anti-labor laws?

Answer 8

• Fellow Servant Rule: employers were not liable for workplace injuries that resulted from negligence of other employees
• Contributory Negligence: if actions of employees contributed to own injuries
• Assumption of Risk: workers who accept a job assume the risks of the job and consequences of the risk

Question 9

What is the fellow servant rule?

Answer 9

Employers were not liable for workplace injuries that resulted from negligence of other employees

Question 10

What is contributory negligence?

Answer 10

If actions of employees contributed to own injuries

Question 11

What is assumption of risk?

Answer 11

Workers who accept a job assume the risks of the job and consequences of the risk