SAFETY STUDY

Safety Signs  Safety signs combine shape, color and pictograms to convey specific health and safety information or instructions. While there are regional variations, the standard safety signs are divided into five categories:  • Prohibition – directed at stopping dangerous behavior, e.g. ‘No smoking’. The signs are circular with a black pictogram on a white background with a red border and red diagonal cross bar.  • Warning – tell people to be careful of a particular hazard, e.g. ‘Forklift trucks operating in the area’. The signs are triangular with a black pictogram on a yellow background with a black border.  • Mandatory action – instruct people to take a specific action, often relating to wearing personal protective equipment, e.g. ‘Eye protection must be worn’. They are circular with a solid blue background and a white pictogram.  • Safe condition – identify safe behavior or places of safety, e.g. ‘First-aid station’. They are rectangular or square ...

   Emergency Action Plan    Emergency Standards    Expert Systems    Additional Assistance Portable Fire Extinguishers Extinguisher Placement and Spacing Portable fire extinguishers can be an effective early response to a developing fire, if they are installed and used properly. In this section, we are going to review general information about the placement and spacing of portable fire extinguishers. If employees use portable fire extinguishers to fight small fires, they must be installed in all areas of the workplace. To ensure each area is protected properly, ask yourself the following questions: Is the extinguisher readily accessible in the event of a fire? Is the extinguisher fully charged and working properly? Show/Hide All IS THE EXTINGUISHER READILY ACCESSIBLE IN THE EVENT OF A FIRE? To avoid putting workers in danger, fire extinguishers should be located throughout the workplace and readily accessible in the event of a fire. [29 CFR 1910....

Many of the UK road signs are fairly obvious for example traffic lights or others you've probably seen soft and as a passenger you just know what they mean for example roundabouts but some signs are not obvious to help work them out it helps to know the signing system the UK road signs I'm gonna now go through this circular signs give orders these are things you must legally do or not do if you don't follow these orders you could be fined by a camera or pulled over by police and given points on your license there is also a color coding system typically used where blue signs are positive orders so these are things you must do great circular signs and negative orders these are things you must not do much local computer games where blue are your allies positive red or your enemies negative triangular signs typically give warnings so these are things such as hazards the you might need to adjust your speed or your position for to be able to safely negotiate them directions and g...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration or OSHA requires employers to evaluate the workplace to determine if any spaces or permit required confined spaces this is essentially a two-step process step one identify all of your confined spaces and step two determine which of those confined spaces are permit required and conversely which ones are not the focus of this tutorial is on OSHA's definition of a confined space employers must evaluate all confined spaces in the workplace even if they do not have employees who will be entering those phases also the permit required confined space standard does not require documentation of this evaluation however it may be a good idea so what is OSHA's definition of a confined space the OSHA definition of a confined space can be found at 1910 146 paragraph B definitions there you will see the confined spaces are characterized by three criteria it is important to note that all three criteria must be in place for of space to be conside...