NEB BCSE flashcards
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- Hierarchy of Controls
- Ranked approach to reducing risk: elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment, applied from most to least effective.
- Incidence Rate Formula
- Number of recordable injuries multiplied by 200,000, divided by total hours worked, normalizing injury frequency to a standard 100-worker year.
- Near Miss
- An unplanned event that did not cause injury or damage but had the potential to do so, signaling a hazard before harm occurs.
- Confined Space
- A space with limited entry and exit, not designed for continuous occupancy, and potentially containing a hazardous atmosphere or engulfment risk.
- Plan-Do-Check-Act
- Continual improvement cycle: plan objectives and controls, implement them, verify performance against expectations, then act on findings.
- Leading Indicator
- A proactive measure such as inspection completion or training rates that predicts future safety performance rather than recording past outcomes.
- Lagging Indicator
- A retrospective measure such as injury rate or lost days that records outcomes after they occur and cannot predict future performance.
- Safety Policy
- A written statement of management commitment, objectives, and responsibilities that frames the safety management system and is signed by senior leadership.
- Contractor Prequalification
- Screening contractors for safety record, training, and program adequacy before awarding work, followed by orientation and performance monitoring.
- Risk Matrix
- A grid combining likelihood and severity to assign qualitative risk levels, supporting prioritization of hazards for control.
- Residual Risk
- The risk remaining after controls are applied; it must be evaluated and reduced as low as reasonably practicable.
- ALARP Principle
- Requirement to reduce risk as low as reasonably practicable, balancing control cost against the magnitude of risk reduction achieved.
- Lockout Tagout
- Procedure isolating hazardous energy sources with locks and tags during service, including verification of zero energy state before work.
- PPE Limitations
- Personal protective equipment is the last control layer; it protects only the wearer and depends on fit, training, inspection, and maintenance.
- Industrial Hygiene Process
- Systematic sequence of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, controlling, and confirming workplace health hazards and exposure risks.
- Time-Weighted Average
- Exposure metric calculated by summing concentration multiplied by duration for each task, divided by the total shift hours.
- Local Exhaust Ventilation
- Engineering control capturing airborne contaminants at the source before they enter the breathing zone, requiring airflow and hood verification.
- Safety Data Sheet
- Standardized document providing hazard, handling, first aid, and exposure information for a chemical product, reviewed before use.
- Heat Stroke
- Life-threatening condition with elevated core temperature and altered mental status; requires immediate cooling and emergency medical response.
- Workers' Three Rights
- Core entitlements to know about workplace hazards, participate in safety processes, and refuse work that is unsafe.
- Recordable Injury
- Case involving medical treatment beyond first aid, loss of consciousness, restricted work, or days away from work, requiring recordkeeping.
- Regulatory Hierarchy
- Order of authority from statute to regulation to consensus standard to guidance, with the most stringent applicable requirement governing.
- Consensus Standard
- A voluntary standard developed by a recognized body that becomes enforceable only when adopted by regulation or contract.
- Shelter in Place
- Emergency response staying indoors with doors and ventilation closed, used for severe weather or airborne hazardous releases.
- PASS Technique
- Fire extinguisher method: pull the pin, aim at the base, squeeze the handle, and sweep side to side, for incipient fires only.
- Emergency Assembly Point
- Designated location where evacuated occupants report for headcount and instructions from wardens after leaving the building.
- Root Cause
- Underlying management system failure, such as inadequate design or training, that allowed an incident to occur and must be corrected.
- Five Whys
- Iterative questioning technique tracing a problem backward through causal layers until the fundamental system cause is identified.
- Fishbone Diagram
- Cause-and-effect diagram organizing potential causal factors into categories such as people, equipment, method, and environment.
- Corrective Action Verification
- Confirmation that actions taken after an incident actually eliminated the root cause and prevented recurrence, not merely that they were completed.
- Informed Consent
- Ethical principle requiring that workers understand risks and voluntarily accept them, supported by clear hazard communication.
- Conflict of Interest
- A situation where personal or commercial interests could improperly influence professional safety judgments, requiring disclosure and management.