Reactive Management Approach

It is when supervisors feel they do not have time to do much than handle health and safety problems as
they arise.

Pro-active Approach

It means anticipating how and why an accident or illness might occur, and eliminating the causes before
they ever lead to an injury or illness.

Pro-active Safety Process

It is a practical approach to the prevention of accidents.

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Upstream Pro-active Safety Process

It is best done and most effective if it takes place at the planning and resign stages of the work process.

Task Exposure Analysis

It identify all the hazards associated with a particular task and specify the measures required to perform
the task in the safest and healthiest way.

Workplace

It is made up of the facility, materials and energy sources.

Individuals

They are comprised of physical capabilities, physiological make up, knowledge, skills, attitude, and
behavior.
Systems

These includes policies, procedures, management structure, work methods, training and development
programs, quality controls, inventory control, production scheduling and controls, maintenance, record
keeping and performance which are imposed on the individual in the workplace, and are unique in the
workplace.

Human Relations

These are consist of those things which are used to bond the other three performance factors together
to create performance capability.

Hazard Analysis

It is an orderly process used to acquire specific information pertaining to a given system. It can be used
as a guide in anticipating possible hazards and can also help in lessening a hazards effect

Inductive Method

A formal method of hazard analysis. It postulates how the component parts of a system will contribute to
the success or failure of the system as a whole.

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis

In this analysis, the failure or malfunctions of each component is considered, including type or mode of
failure.

Deductive Method

A formal method of hazard analysis. It postulates failure of the entire system and then identifies how the
component could contribute to the failure.

Control of Hazardous Energy

It refers to the practices and procedures that are needed to disable machinery or equipment to prevent
it from unexpectedly re-energizing or starting up while workers perform servicing and maintenance
activities on it.

Safety and Health Inspection

It is a central part of most safety, health and environmental protection programs and it provides a
reliable way for identifying and eliminating conditions that could contribute to accidents, illnesses or
environmental damages.

Safety Inspection

It is a tool in the prevention of accident to locate and report existing and potential unsafe conditions
that, if left uncontrolled, have the capacity to cause accident in the workplace.

Continuous Inspection

This process is conducted by employees, supervisors and maintenance personnel as part of their job
responsibilities.

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Planned Inspection at Intervals

This inspection can be the foundation for a strong loss control program. This process is what most people
term as "real" asfety inspection.

Periodic Inspection

It includes those inspections scheduled at regular intervals.

Intermittent Inspections
These are those made at irregular intervals and they are performed unannounced.

General Inspections

These are planned and covers places not inspected periodically. It includes those areas no one ever visits
and where people rarely gets hint such parking lots, sidewalks, fencing and similar outlying area.

Daily Inspection

Inspection conducted by area supervisor and maintenance personnel, who also can request suggestions
from employees in their various workstations.

Weekly Inspection

Inspection conducted by department heads.

Monthly Inspection

Inspection conducted by department head supervisors, the safety department and the safety and health
committees

Checklist

It serves as a reminder of what to look for and as records of what have been covered.

Incident

It is any observable human activity sufficiently complete in itself to permit references and predictions to
be made about the person performing the act

Accident

It may be defined as something that is unplanned, uncontrolled, and in some way undesirable; it disrupts
the normal function of a person or persons and causes injury or near injury.
Medical Treatment Injury

It shall mean an injury which does not result in a disabling injury but which requires first aid and medical
treatment of any kind

Disabling Injury

It shall mean a work injury which results in death, permanent total disability, permanent partial disability
or temporal total disability

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Death

It shall mean any fatality resulting from a work injury regardless of the time intervening between injury
and death.

Permanent Total Disability

It shall mean any injury or sickness other than death which permanently and totally incapacitates an
employee from engaging in any gainful occupation or which results in the loss or the complete loss of
use in one accident

Permanent Partial Disability

It shall mean any injury other than death or permanent total disability, which results in the loss or loss of
use of any member or part of a member of the body regardless of any pre-existing disability of the
injured member or impaired body function.

Temporary Total Disability

It shall mean any injury or illness which does not result in death or permanent total or permanent partial
disability but which results in disability from work for a day or more.
Regularly Established Job

It shall mean the occupation or job description of the activities performed by an employee at the time of
the accident and shall not mean one which has been established especially to accommodate an injured
employee, either for therapeutic reason or to avoid counting the case of disability.

Day of Disability

It shall mean any day in which an employee is unable, because of injury or illness, to perform effectively
throughout a full shift the essential functions of a regularly established job which is open and available to
him.

Total Days Lost

It shall mean the combined total, for all injuries or illnesses of all days of disability resulting from
temporary total injuries or illnesses; and/or all scheduled charges assigned to fatal, permanent total and
permanent partial injuries or illnesses

Scheduled Charges

It shall mean the specific charge assigned (in full days) to a permanent partial, permanent total, or fatal
injury or illness.

Employee

It is the purpose of counting injuries or illnesses or calculating exposures shall be as defined in Rule 1002
(2) and shall include working owners and officers.

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Exposure
It shall mean the total number of employee-hours worked by all employees of the reporting
establishment or unit.

Disabling Injury Frequency Rate

It is the number of disabling injuries per 1,000,000 employee-hours of exposure rounded to the nearest
two decimal places.

Disabling Injury Severity Rate

It is the number of days lost per 1,000,000 employee-hours of exposure rounded to the nearest whole
number.

Equipment

It means defective equipment, improper use of equipment, unguarded machines, inappropriate PPE,
poorly designed equipment.

Environment

it means environmental condition of the workplace, plant layout, work space and working condition.

Personnel

It means worker's qualification to do job, health condition, relationship with coworkers.

Management

It means poor communication and coordination between supervisors and workers, no written job
procedures, mismanagement, failure to initiate corrective measure, poor training design.

Accident Type

It is directly related to the source of injury classification and explains how that source produced the
injury.
Corrective Action

Action to eliminate the cause of a detected nonconformity or other undesirable situation

Preventive Action

Action to eliminate the cause of a potential nonconformity or other undesirable potential situation

Noncomformity

Non-fulfillment of a requirement. It can be any deviation from work standards, practices, procedures,
legal requirements, or applicable code of federal regulations

Root Cause

An identified reason for the presence of a defect or problem.

Good recordkeeping

It is the foundation of a scientific approach to occupational safety.

The First Aid Report

It is a report that the first aider or nurse fills out for each new case.

Supervisor's Accident Report

It is a detailed report that the supervisor should make about each accident even only a minor injury is
the result.

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Monthly Accident Statistics Report

It allows tabulation of cumulative totals and the computation of frequency and severity rates.

Days Charged

It is the losses from work injuries that are evaluated in terms of days of disability or inability to produce
either actual or potential.

Employment

It is defined as all work or activity performed in carrying out an assignment or request of the employer,
including incidental and related activities not specifically covered by the assignment or request.

Employment

It is defined as any voluntary work or activity undertaken while on duty with the intent of benefiting the
employer.

Employment

It is defined as any other activities undertaken while on duty with employer's consent or approval.

Occupational Injury

It is any injury such as a cut, fracture, sprain, amputation, etc. which results from a work accident or from
exposure in the work environment.

Occupational Illness of an Employee

It is any abnormal condition or disorder other than one resulting from an occupational injury, caused by
exposure to environmental factors associated with his employment

Disabling Injury/Illness Frequency Rate

It is based upon the total number of deaths, permanent total, permanent partial, and temporary total
disabilities which occur during the period covered by the rate.

Disabling Injury/Illness Severity Rate

It is based upon the total of all scheduled charges for all deaths, permanent total, permanent partial
disabilities, plus the total actual days of the disabilities of all temporary total disabilities which occur
during the period covered by the rate.

Average Days Charged per Disabling Injury

It expresses the relationship between the total days charged and the number of disabling injuries/illness.