Exam 4: Hazard Recognition, Assessment, and Control

At the winery, part of Alain's job involves being lowered through a narrow opening into a giant tank to clean them out in between batches. The first step in the plan should be to vent the container and test the air quality to ensure all vapours have been removed.

Who is most likely to carry out safety sampling?

Careless stacking of boxes, such that the boxes later fall on a coworker ,would be classified as what type of hazard?

In order to accurately describe the risks involved in using various types of lasers by surgeons at the clinic, Oleg must consider both likelihood and severity of both overt traumatic and overexertion injuries.

Jeremy works in a large shipping area of a courier company. If a parcel flies off the conveyor belt and hits him in the shoulder, this would be an example of how lack of a machine guard allows kinetic energy to create unnecessary risk.

The consequences of a hazard are assessed through what measure?

Read the scenario and answer questions. However, performers at Canada's famed Shaw and Stratford festivals encounter many hazards and OH&S incidents can occur. Imagine a theatre with suspended overhead lights, trapdoors in the stage, on-stage sets that look real but are built of flimsy materials, narrow hallways and stairs, and actors engaged in fight scenes using realistic weapons. The same process of hazard recognition, risk assessment, and control must take place. -What type of hazard would be represented by an unevenly repaired patch on a stage that could cause an actor to slip and fall when engaged in a fight scene?

Which of the following is one of the four specific conditions that have been linked to repetitive strain injuries?

Read the scenario and answer questions. However, performers at Canada's famed Shaw and Stratford festivals encounter many hazards and OH&S incidents can occur. Imagine a theatre with suspended overhead lights, trapdoors in the stage, on-stage sets that look real but are built of flimsy materials, narrow hallways and stairs, and actors engaged in fight scenes using realistic weapons. The same process of hazard recognition, risk assessment, and control must take place. -What analytic technique is available to show why the defective repair occurred and contributed to the incident?

Where does personal protective equipment (PPE) rank in terms of the recommended approach to hazard control?

What is another term for a direct unsafe act?

The risk levels set by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) are expressed in terms of the percentage chance a worker has of encountering that event in their lifetime.

Which of the following is an engineering control?

Shutting off power to protect emergency responders is an action taken as part of what stage of hazard control?

What numerical measure is typically used to communicate risk, regardless of how it is assessed?

As part of hazard identification, Ray was asked to describe how much time he spent on various tasks and to rank the importance of each of these tasks. This information was necessary for safety sampling.

Which of the following is the best example of an engineering control?

CIUB injuries would fall within what larger category of injuries?

Read the scenario and answer questions. However, performers at Canada's famed Shaw and Stratford festivals encounter many hazards and OH&S incidents can occur. Imagine a theatre with suspended overhead lights, trapdoors in the stage, on-stage sets that look real but are built of flimsy materials, narrow hallways and stairs, and actors engaged in fight scenes using realistic weapons. The same process of hazard recognition, risk assessment, and control must take place. -Under what legislation could the theatre be liable for failing to maintain the stage in a better condition?

A hazard is any activity that may occur on a day-to-day basis as a direct or indirect result of some human or human-related undertaking.