BU414 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Confined Space, Engineering Controls, Hazard Analysis
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Hazard any source of potential adverse health effect, damage, or harm on something or someone under certain conditions at work. Incident an event or occurrence that had or could have had a negative impact on people, property, or processes. Risk the probability or the extent to which a hazard is likely to cause harm to people, processes, or equipment. Risk perception an individual"s interpretation of the potential for harm based on values, beliefs, and experience with a hazard. Humans create hazards in the workplace by their actions or inactions. Proper training, administration, leadership, and supervision are required to ensure that employees engage in the appropriate workplace behaviours. Unsafe act a deviation from standard job procedures or practices that increases a worker"s exposure to a hazard. An indirect, unsafe act is one in which the human action is only indirectly involved. Unsafe acts are observable behaviours that are the direct outcome of a decision made by an individual.