What is the most important aspect of a first class power engineer’s job?
Management of the Safety Program
There are a number of comprehensive health and safety programs available which companies can use as a basis for developing their own programs. Information can be obtained from what for institutions?
- Provincial workplace insurance boards
- Canadian center for occupational health and safety (CCOHS)
- US occupational health and safety agency (OSHA)
- British standards Institute (BSI)
List 6 Major elements of H&S program
- Need for commitment from top management
- Clarly stated H&S policy
- Identification of hazards
- Development plan to control risks
- Effective training
- Inspection and audit process
List 6 things included in a H&S policy
- Maintain a healthy and safe work environment
- Comply with all regulatory requirements and standards
- Provide necessary resources
- Communicate the policy proactively to all employees
- Define consequence of noncompliance
- Continuous improvement
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What is an initial status review? What does it determine?
It is a way of accessing the plants current H&S program and assists in moving forward to ensure goals and objectives of the new program are met. It looks at what is already there, what needs to be done, what info/help is available and what is relevant to that specific plant.
What are the 3 areas of a risk reduction process?
- Haz identification
- Risk assessment
- Risk Control
What 5 areas do an annual measurable H&S objective address?
- Findings on the initial status review
- Areas of risk priority on risk reduction process
- Any non compliance
- Findings of past incidents
- recommendations from H&S committee
What are the 8 things an emergency Response Plan must include?
- Identification of different emergencies
- Identification of Local emergency services
- Alarm systems and emergency equip
- Actions people not involved in the emergency should take
- Make-up and duties of the emergency response team
- Emergency escape routes and assembly points
- Regulatory and corporate reporting requirements
- Responsibility for media liaison
These plans should be tested by holding practice drills.
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Organizations must have an effective process for reporting and investigating accidents, incidents and nonconformances with safety requirements. The purpose of these investigative procedures is to prevent further occur occurrences of the situation by identifying and dealing with the root causes. This process should include procedures for what for things?
- Reporting and investigating accidents, incidents, and nonconformances
- identifying actions to be taken to avoid reoccurrence and reduce the risk
- initiating and completing corrective and preventative actions
- confirming the effectiveness of corrective and preventative actions taken
Supervisors and managers also required training in additional aspects in what four things?
- safety leadership
- communication
- coaching
- constructive enforcement
What are the seven steps in health and safety training programs?
- analyze needs (competencies require required of each position in an organization)
- assessed priorities (risk reduction plan, employees can also provide valuable information on training priorities)
- design training (understanding of the current level of competence)
- deliver training (classroom training, on the job training, correspondence, training, Internet based training)
- reinforce learning (repeated and reinforced overtime using quizzes, reminders, and posters)
- evaluate effectiveness (follow up quizzes and assessing number of accidents and incidents, as well as checking in to see compliance with the targeted procedure)
- continuous improvement
What is task analysis?
The systematic breakdown of a task into steps which can be undertaken in order to establish a necessary skills and the potential hazards of the task
What are the six steps in a risk reduction process?
- classified work areas (dividing the power plant into number of work area areas)
- Identify hazards (hazard, identification is a systematic process used to identify activities that have the potential the cost injury of property damage. Job analysis may be required and a hazard and opera. Ability study should be considered during the hazard, identification phase. No judgement should be made regarding either the likelihood or severity of an incident occurring)
- assess risk (class A, B or C and the likelihood
- develop a risk reduction plan (used to establish priorities for the development of risk control controls)
- develop an implement risk control controls
- assess outcome
Risk controls should be developed to reduce hazards to the degree acceptable to an organization by what three ways?
- First attempt attempting to remove the risk
- developing appropriate procedures to reduce the consequences and/or likelihood
- using PPE as a last resort
What four things does safe work planning allow?
- hazards to be identified
- the what if questions to be asked
- the risks assessed
- methods to control and mitigate the risks to be identified
What is job analysis?
Job analysis is a process that breaks down a complex job into single individual tasks to risk reduction process is then applied individually to each specific task thus ensuring that each step is evaluated for specific hazards and the need for mitigation
What is a safe work permit? What does it define?
Safe work permit as a document that gives authority for specific work at a specific location or on a specific piece of equipment during a specific time. No work other than normal operating work is allowed to be undertaken unless a safe work permit has been issued by an authorized person. The safe work permit defines all of the conditions, limitations to work and precautions that are required for a job to be undertaken safely.
What are the eight steps in a safe work permit procedure?
- request permit
- identify isolation and safety conditions
- establish isolations and LOTO
- authorize an issue safe work permit
- perform work
- surrender safety work permit
- remove isolation
- operate equipment
What are some potential hazards associated with confined space entry?
- flammable and explosive atmosphere (enriched, oxygen atmospheres, vaporization of flammable liquid liquids)
- toxic substances (gases, vapours carbon monoxide)
- corrosive atmosphere (chlorine, acids, nitrogen dioxide, ammonia, benzene)
- oxygen deficiency (where oxygen is consumed by work such as welding or cutting or chemical reaction or being displaced by another gas, such as carbon dioxide or nitrogen during blanket)
- electrical or mechanical hazards
- thermal burns
- noise
- vibration
- slips and falls
- structural
What is type 1 soil?
Soil that is very hard and very dense. It can be penetrated with difficulty by a small sharp object. It has low natural, moisture content, high degree of internal strength, no signs of water sea pitch, can be excavated only by mechanical equipment.
What is type 2 soil?
Soil that is very stiff dense and can be penetrated with moderate difficulty by a small sharp object. It has a load of medium natural, moisture content, and a medium degree of internal strength. It is damp in appearance after it is excavated.
What is type 3 soil?
Soil that is stiff to firm and compact and loose inconsistency. There are signs of surface cracking and water seepage.
What is type 4 soil?
Soil that is soft to very soft and very loose in consistency. It runs easily or flows, and it is wet or muddy.
When doing a soil test and identification what must be done?
At least one visual and one physical analysis these tests should be run on freshly excavated samples and are designed to determine stability based on cohesiveness, presence of fishers, presence and amount of water, unconfined compressive strength.
