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Chapter 36
Term | Definition |
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Anxiety | Feeling of worry or uneasiness |
Disaster | Sudden event that causes damage or loss of life |
Emergency action plan | Written document that describes the actions that employees should take to ensure their safety if an emergency situation occurs. |
Emergency preparedness | Process of making plans to recover, respond to, and recover from an emergency situation |
Evacuation | Planned systematic retreat of people to safety in an emergency situation. |
Evacuation procedures | Step by step instructions on how to remove individuals safely and quickly from a building during an emergency. |
Exit route | Continuous and unobstructed path of travel from any point within a workplace to a place of safety. |
Fire extinguisher | Portable device that's designed to extinguish a fire |
Fire Prevention plan | Written document that identifies combustible materials stored in the workplace and how to control them |
Fire protection | The implementation of safety measures to reduce the unwanted effects of fire |
HAZMAT | Acronym of "HAZardous MATerials" refers to the materials that have to be handled with proper equipment because they can oppose a threat to health or the environment |
Man-made-disaster | Event that causes disaster by the negligent or intentional actions of humans or the failure of a man made system |
Natural disaster | Catastrophic event thatis caused by nature or the natural processs of the earth |
Stress | Body's response to threat or change |