Workplace Health & Safety
Across
- 1. / Also referred to as high, what type of risk demands urgent action, such as immediately stopping the activity or isolating the hazard?
- 2. / This is one methodology that is used to prioritise risks according to their likelihood and is known as a risk _______ .
- 6. / What does the 'D' in SDS stand for? Please note it was once called the MSDS.
- 7. / What does the second 'P' in PPE stand for?
- 8. / Hazards can be identified by observing, inspecting, investigating, examining records, reading external reports and literature as well as _____________ .
- 9. / The key to reducing material wastage is to ______, reuse and recycle.
- 11. / Any action that ensues from the risk assessment process must follow what is known as the _______ of control.
- 12. / What is always the ideal in risk control - (removing a hazard from a workplace).
- 15. / _________ are the means by which principles are implemented or upheld.
- 16. / When elimination is not possible or practical and you instead minimise a risk, some risk will remain after the control measure(s) have been implemented. This is known as a ________ risk.
- 18. / While at work a worker must take _______ care for his or her own health and safety.
- 20. / Once the context of risk management strategy or initiative has been established, the next stage is to _______ the hazards.
- 21. / What type of report is completed, when an accident in the workplace has occurred?
- 22. / ___________ are guiding principles about an organisation's standards and practices (e.g. confidentiality policy, leave without pay policy.
- 23. / In the acronym SAFE what does the 'E' stand for?
- 24. / I am an environmental issue associated with the resources typically used in a natural therapies practice. I can be grouped into one of the 4 categories; water, energy, chemical and ________ .
Down
- 1. / A health and safety ________ is one way to promote co-operation around WHS issues.
- 3. / In any environment there is always the possibility that something will cause harm, to people, property or both; this 'something' is known as.
- 4. / What does the risk assessment process analyse in relation to that exposure to a hazard and whether it will result in injury or illness.
- 5. / In 2011 there were changes to this law. Work Health and Safety ___ 2011.
- 8. / ___________ in the WHS context is the likely severity or impact of a work-related injury or illness. The following descriptors are often associated with this: Insignificant, minor, moderate, major and catastrophic.
- 10. / WHS is about managing this.
- 13. / What sort of control aims to prevent or minimise the spread of communicable diseases and is a key aspect of WHS at any workplace and particularly healthcare workplaces?
- 14. / Safe Work ______ administers the Hazardous Substances Information System.
- 17. / In relation to the descriptor on a likelihood scale, what does, 'May occur once or twice in your working life' refer to in the descriptor?
- 19. / This term relates to the design of a work environment to fit the people who work in them.
- 22. / What does the first 'P' in PPE stand for?