Question 1

Jeremy works in a large shipping area of a courier company. If a parcel flies off the conveyor belt and hits him in the shoulder, this would be an example of how lack of a machine guard allows kinetic energy to create unnecessary risk.

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Question 2

In order to accurately describe the risks involved in using various types of lasers by surgeons at the clinic, Oleg must consider both likelihood and severity of both overt traumatic and overexertion injuries.

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Accurately describing risks involves considering both the likelihood and severity of potential injuries.

Question 3

Kim Sung is a member of the Joint Health and Safety Committee at her workplace and she has been asked to work with an outside safety expert to identify hazards from poor housekeeping throughout the hospital. A walk-through survey would be an effective way for them to collect this data.

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A walk-through survey is a common method for identifying hazards related to poor housekeeping practices in a workplace. It involves walking through the workplace and looking for potential hazards such as clutter, spills, and debris. As a member of the Joint Health and Safety Committee, Kim Sung can work with an outside safety expert to conduct this type of survey and gather valuable data on hazards related to poor housekeeping practices at the hospital.

Question 4

Nico fell asleep for a minute while driving his company vehicle and narrowly missed hitting a car in the next lane. This would be classified as an OH&S incident.

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Falling asleep while driving a company vehicle is a safety hazard and a potential risk to the driver and other road users, making it an OH&S incident.

Question 5

As part of hazard identification, Ray was asked to describe how much time he spent on various tasks and to rank the importance of each of these tasks. This information was necessary for safety sampling.

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This information is more relevant for job analysis or task prioritization rather than safety sampling, which focuses on identifying and evaluating hazards.

Question 6

Read the scenario and answer questions. However, performers at Canada's famed Shaw and Stratford festivals encounter many hazards and OH&S incidents can occur. Imagine a theatre with suspended overhead lights, trapdoors in the stage, on-stage sets that look real but are built of flimsy materials, narrow hallways and stairs, and actors engaged in fight scenes using realistic weapons. The same process of hazard recognition, risk assessment, and control must take place.
-What type of hazard would be represented by an unevenly repaired patch on a stage that could cause an actor to slip and fall when engaged in a fight scene?

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An unevenly repaired patch on a stage that could cause an actor to slip and fall is an example of an environment hazard.

Question 7

As Plant Safety Officer, Celine's job is to identify human factors in workplace incidents so that blame can be laid on those who engaged in unsafe acts and/or created unsafe conditions.

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The role of a Plant Safety Officer is to identify human factors in workplace incidents to improve safety and prevent future incidents, not to assign blame.

Question 8

At the winery, part of Alain's job involves being lowered through a narrow opening into a giant tank to clean them out in between batches. The first step in the plan should be to vent the container and test the air quality to ensure all vapours have been removed.

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Question 9

Read the scenario and answer questions. However, performers at Canada's famed Shaw and Stratford festivals encounter many hazards and OH&S incidents can occur. Imagine a theatre with suspended overhead lights, trapdoors in the stage, on-stage sets that look real but are built of flimsy materials, narrow hallways and stairs, and actors engaged in fight scenes using realistic weapons. The same process of hazard recognition, risk assessment, and control must take place.
-Under what legislation could the theatre be liable for failing to maintain the stage in a better condition?

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Question 10

The risk levels set by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) are expressed in terms of the percentage chance a worker has of encountering that event in their lifetime.

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Question 11

A hazard is any activity that may occur on a day-to-day basis as a direct or indirect result of some human or human-related undertaking.

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Question 12

Rina should ignore her coworkers in the woodworking area when they tell her that she should use compressed air to clean up her work area at the end of the day.

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Question 13

Read the scenario and answer questions. However, performers at Canada's famed Shaw and Stratford festivals encounter many hazards and OH&S incidents can occur. Imagine a theatre with suspended overhead lights, trapdoors in the stage, on-stage sets that look real but are built of flimsy materials, narrow hallways and stairs, and actors engaged in fight scenes using realistic weapons. The same process of hazard recognition, risk assessment, and control must take place.
-What analytic technique is available to show why the defective repair occurred and contributed to the incident?

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The analytic technique that is available to show why the defective repair occurred and contributed to the incident is the fault tree analysis. It is a logical diagram that shows the relationships between a specific undesired event and the factors that contribute to it. It helps identify the root causes of the incident and the factors that need to be addressed to prevent similar incidents in the future. Safety sampling, audit programs, and positive tree are not relevant to this specific situation.

Quiz 4: Hazard Recognition, Assessment, and Control