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Basic Safety - Bonar
Basic Safety - Carpentry
Term | Definition |
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Management System | The organization of a company's management, including reporting procedures, supervisory responsibility and administration |
Qulified Person | A person who by possesion of a recognized degree, certification, professional standing or by extensive knowledge |
Wind Sock | A cloth cloth cone open at both ends mounted in a high place to show which direction the wind is blowing |
Experience Modification Rate (EMR) | A rate computation to determine surchange or credit to workers' compensation premium based on a company's pervious accident experience |
Flammable | capable of easily igniting and rapidly burning |
Competent Person | A person who is capable of identifying existing and perdictable hazards in the surrounding or working conditions. |
Ground | the conducting connection between electrical equipment or an electrical circuit and the earth |
Safety Culture | created when the whole company sees the value of a safe work environment |
Respirators | A device that provides clean, filtered aire for breathing, no matter what is in the surrounding air. |
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) | An agency of the U.S. Department of labor |
Trench | A norrow excavation(man-made) below the surrface of the ground that is generally deeper than it is wide. |
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) | A document that must accompany and hazardous substance |
Combustible | copable of easily igniting and rapidly burning |
Confined Space | Awork area large enough for a person to work |
Scaffolding | An elevanted platform for workers and materials |
Toeboards | A verical barrier at floor level attached along exposed edges of a platform, runway, or ramp to pervent materials and people from falling |
Extension Ladder | A ladder made of two straight length can be adjusted |
Foot Candles | Aunit fo measure of the intensity of light falling on a surface |
Top Rails | A top-level, horizontal board required on all open sides of scaffolding and platforms that are more than 14 inches from the face of structure and more than 10 feet above the ground |
Excavations | Any man-made cut, cavity, trench, or depression in an earth surface |
Lanyards | A short section of rope or strap, one end of which is attached to a worker's safety harness and the other to a strong achor point above the work area |
stepladder | A nonadjustable ladder |
Planked | Havingpieces of material 2 or more inces thick and 6 or more inches wide used as flooring,decking, or scaffolding |
mid-rails | Its is placed halfway between the toeboard and the top rail |
Six-foot rule | A rule stating that platforms or work surfaces with unpritected sides or wdges that are six foot or higher than the ground or level below it require fall protection |
maximun intended load | the total weight of all people, equipment,tool, matterials and loads that a ladder can hold at one time |
Hand line | a line attached to a tool or object so a worker can pull it up after climbing a ladder or scafford |
Spalls | a chips or gragment of rock or soil that has broken off from the main mass |
Cross-bracing | braces placed diagonally from the bottom of one rail to the top of another rail that add support to a structure |
Guarded | enclosed, fenced, covered or othwise protected by barriers, rails, covers or platforms to prevent dangerous contact |
stright ladder | a 180 degree angle or flat line |
signaler | A person who is responsible for directing a vichicle when the driver's vision is blocked in any way |
maximum Allowable slope (MAS) | the steepest incline of an excavation face that is acceptable for the most favorable site conditions as protection against cave-in, distance to vertical rise |
shoring | using piece of timber, usually in a diagonal position, to hold a wall in place temporarily |
wages | payments |
subsequent | late |
conscious | cautions |
incorporated | united |
productivity | timely fashion |
duration | longevity |
categorized | order |
liability | responable |
servicing equipment | updating, checking the equipment |
potential hazard | could be danagerous |
legitimate | logical |
intentional act | allowable act |
rationalize risk | jistify action |
Evaluate | to assess |
sanitation | process of making sanitary |
formen | sit manager |
appeal | question |
eliminate | do away with |
posted | to bring to public notice by posting awardness |
exposed | discovered |
work environment | work place |
hazard evaluation | assessing danger |
pneumatic | breezy |
Hardard recognition | being aware of danger |
repetitive motion | repeated motion |
probabililty | likelihood |
adhearing | sticking |
jeopardize | to risk |
conducted | handling |
absenteeism | chronic absence |
enforcing | applying |
immune | free |
compensation | repayment |
financial | dollars and cents |
evacuation | clearing |
employee | worker |
informational | instructive facts |
congested workplace | packed |
dispose | ti get rid of |
egress | exit |
violating policy | breaking rules |
catasprophe | tragedy |
unsanitary conditions | germy enviorment |
analyzing | evalute |
evacuation route | exit route |
magnitude | importance |
hydraulic | moved by water |
Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) | a circuit breaker device that e-energizes an electrical circuit |
Electrical Distribution Panels | part of the electrical distribution system that brings electricity from the street source through the service lines to the electrical meter mounted on the outside of the building |
Apparatus | An assembly of machines used together to do a particular job |
Concealed Receptacles | the electrical outlet that is placed inside the structural elements of a building, such as inside the walls. |
Switch Enclosures | a box that houses electrical switches used to regulate and distribute electricity in a building |
Hazard Communication standard (HazCom) | the occupational safety and health administration standard that requires contractors to educate employees about hazardous chemicals on the job site and how to work with them safely |
lockout/tagout | a formal procedure for taking equipment out of service and ensuring that it cannot be operated until a qualified person has removed the lockout or tagout device |
Arc Welding | the joining of metal parts by fusion, in which the necessary heat is produced by means of an electric arc |
Proximity Work | work done near a hazard but not actually in contact with it |
Arc | the flow of electrical current through a gas (such as air) from one pole to another pole |