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1st Grade
09/21/2011

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What is an accident?
Definition
A happening or event that is not expected, foreseen, or intended. Chance, unpredictable.
Term
What year was the Walsh-Healey public contracts act passed?
Definition
1935
Term
What is workers comp?
Definition
State-wide, not federal. Quick compensation for lost wages, employees cannot sue.
Term
What was most important in the 1700's?
Definition
Protection of property, not people
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What is an incident?
Definition
Unplanned, undesired, predictable event resulting in injury, death or property damage.
Due to unsafe acts or unsafe conditions
Term
What are 3 stimuli for motivating mgmt to consider safety and health?
Definition
-corporate reputation
-cost of replacing labor
-federal regulation
Term
What are the three E's of safety?
Definition
Engineering, education and enforcement
Term
What is a hazard?
Definition
a potential for circumstances to produce unwanted effects of death, injury, property damage, or other loss
Term
Define Risk
Definition
Measure of both the likelihood and severity of the consequenses of all hazards of an activity or condition
Term
Risk equation
Definition
severity X probability
Term
What is the Factor of Safety?
Definition
S-design=S-intended X factor of safety
Term
what is prescriptive training?
Definition
straight forward, and uniform no matter which industry
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what is performance based training?
Definition
less stringent training in your area of performance, specific
Term
What is the incidence rate equation
Definition
IR=(N X 200,000) /T
Term
What is the fire triangle
Definition
Heat oxygen and fuel
Term
Combustible Flashpoint
Definition
100 F +
Term
Flammable flashpoint
Definition
<100 F
Term
3 stages of a fire
Definition
ingition, propagation, extinction
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