Employee Health and Safety

What is the main key to preventing workplace accident or injury?

Maintaining good housekeeping practices

Your awareness

Wearing Personal Protective Equipment

Taking frequent breaks

What is the best way to lift a heavy object?

Squat and lift with your legs

Lean over and lift with your arms and back

Consider your abilities/limitations and ask for assistance

Lift the load as far away from you as possible

In what circumstances should you NOT pull the fire alarm?

Smoke is filling the room

You suspect a gas leak

There may be an active shooter on campus

Your lab notebook just went up in flames

All employees are required by law to evacuate when a fire alarm is pulled or when ordered to do so by an authorized personnel

True

False

What is the biggest cause of fire?

Overloaded power strips and improper use of extension cords

Open flames and sparks

Carelessness

Flammable combustible liquid vapors

How can you contact The University Police (UPD)

Dialing 911 on any campus phone

Dialing 530-898-5555 on any phone

Using a campus blue light phone

All of the above

In what circumstance may you use a campus fire extinguisher?

The fire is small, not growing, you have been properly trained, understand fire behavior, have a clear exit, called 911 and have activated the fire alarm.

You understand fire behavior, have a clear exit and have called 911

The fire is small but growing,you have been properly trained, understand fire behavior, have a clear exit, called 911 and have activated the fire alarm.

The fire is small, not growing, you understand fire behavior, have a clear exit, called 911 and have activated the fire alarm.

As a campus employee you are not responsible for the proper control of any hazardous operation or process that can cause a fire or explosion or have the potential to increase the size and severity of a fire.

True

False

Who do you contact if you suspect a lead or asbestos containing material has been damaged?

EHS

EOC

UPD

Your Supervisor

Every employee working with or around hazardous materials has the right to be aware of the hazards associated with the chemicals in their workplace and the responsibility to use the proper safety procedures when working with hazardous materials used or produced in their workplace.

True

False

If your supervisor asks you to operate equipment that you have not been trained on, you...

Read the instructions and proceed with caution.

Watch others operate the equipment until you feel confident you can do it.

Notify your supervisor that you have not been trained and refrain from using the equipment until then.

Quit

Your new workplace has a toaster connected with an extension cord that plugs into a power strip that has been daisy chained and connects to the outlet next to the paper shredder. You...

Make toast!

Unplug the toaster

Unplug the toaster, extension cord and power strips. Then you remove them do no one burns the lab down making toast.

Do nothing

Emergency exits including doorways, passageways, aisles and corridors must be kept clear and free from obstruction at ALL times.

True

False

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