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Basic Safety - Carpentry

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