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Basic Safety - Bonar
Basic Safety - Carpentry
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |