Gold Seal Safety Practitioner flashcards
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- Hierarchy of Controls
- A ranked list of hazard controls from most to least effective: elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment.
- Risk Assessment Matrix
- A grid plotting likelihood against severity to assign risk scores, allowing hazards to be ranked and prioritized for control measures.
- ALARP Principle
- Risk must be reduced as low as reasonably practicable, balancing the cost and difficulty of further controls against the risk reduction gained.
- Near Miss
- An unplanned event that did not cause injury or damage but had the potential to do so; a leading indicator of system weaknesses.
- TRIR Calculation
- Total recordable incident rate equals recordable cases times 200,000 divided by total hours worked, normalizing injury data across employer sizes.
- DART Rate
- Days away, restricted, or transferred rate equals DART cases times 200,000 divided by total hours worked, capturing serious injury impact.
- Leading Indicator
- A proactive measure such as training completion, inspection frequency, or near-miss reports that predicts future safety performance.
- Lagging Indicator
- A reactive measure such as injury counts or lost-time rates that describes safety outcomes already experienced.
- Job Hazard Analysis
- A method that breaks a task into sequential steps, identifies hazards at each step, and defines controls before the work is performed.
- Root Cause Analysis
- A structured process using tools like 5 Whys or fishbone diagrams to find underlying system causes rather than blaming individuals.
- 5 Whys Technique
- An iterative questioning method that asks why repeatedly, typically five times, to move from a symptom to its underlying cause.
- Fishbone Diagram
- An Ishikawa cause-and-effect diagram organizing potential causes into categories such as people, equipment, method, material, measurement, and environment.
- Permit-to-Work
- A formal authorization system for high-hazard tasks that verifies conditions, controls, and competent persons before and during work.
- Lockout/Tagout
- An energy control procedure that isolates hazardous energy sources, applies locks and tags, and verifies zero energy before maintenance.
- Confined Space Entry
- Entry into a space with limited access that is not designed for occupancy; requires atmospheric testing, attendant, and rescue provisions.
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Equipment worn by an individual to reduce exposure to hazards; the last line of defense because it protects only the wearer.
- Safety Data Sheet
- A standardized 16-section document describing a chemical's hazards, safe handling, first aid, firefighting measures, and exposure controls.
- Personal Breathing-Zone Sample
- An air sample collected near the worker's mouth and nose over a full shift, best representing actual inhalation exposure.
- Exposure Dose Estimate
- Dose is estimated as concentration multiplied by exposure duration, so reducing either factor proportionally reduces total dose.
- Emergency Action Plan
- A documented plan defining roles, alarms, evacuation routes, assembly points, personnel accounting, and drill requirements for emergencies.
- Plan-Do-Check-Act
- A continuous improvement cycle: plan a control, implement it, verify effectiveness, then standardize or correct based on results.
- Safety Audit
- A systematic evaluation of management systems and conformance with requirements, distinct from a point-in-time physical inspection.
- Safety Inspection
- A planned walkthrough verifying physical conditions, behaviors, and control effectiveness at a specific time and place.
- Latent Condition
- A hidden organizational weakness, such as poor design or inadequate training, that contributes to incidents when combined with active failures.
- Incident Investigation
- A structured process to secure the scene, gather evidence and statements, build a timeline, find root causes, and assign corrective actions.
- Corrective Action Tracking
- Recording each corrective action with owner, due date, and verification status so closure is confirmed rather than assumed.
- Management Commitment
- Demonstrated allocation of resources, visible participation, and enforced accountability for safety, evidenced by actions rather than policy statements.
- Training Verification
- Confirming learning through demonstrated behavior or testing rather than attendance records alone, ensuring competence matches the task.
- Severity Rate
- Days lost multiplied by 200,000 divided by total hours worked, expressing the magnitude of harm relative to hours worked.
- Hazard Versus Risk
- A hazard is a source of potential harm; risk combines the likelihood of that harm with its consequence severity.
- Hot Work Permit
- Authorization for welding, cutting, or grinding that verifies fire watch, combustible clearance, and atmospheric conditions before ignition sources are used.
- Safety Culture
- Shared values and behaviors around safety, reflected in reporting willingness, leadership actions, and learning from errors.
- Behavior-Based Safety
- An observation and feedback process that identifies at-risk behaviors and reinforces safe ones, effective only when paired with system controls.