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23-Ind-B10 Workplace Health and Safety: December 2013

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  1. Question 1 OHSA Objectives, System Safety, and Back-Out/Recovery in Accident Prevention
  2. Question 2 Standards, Codes, and Regulations; Their Use in Product Design; and Process Safety Management
  3. Question 3 Fault Tree Analysis — Purpose, Application to Accident Investigation, and Limitations
  4. Question 4 Toxic Substances and Their Effects, Detection and Respiratory Protection, and Hypoxia
  5. Question 5 Effective Machine Guards, Precautionary Measures for Mechanical Equipment, and Mechanical Injury Types
  6. Question 6 Effective Machine Guards Revisited, Mechanical Hazard Types and Causes, and Minimizing Mechanical Hazards
  7. Question 7 Case Study — Die-Rigging Crane Accident Resulting in Fatal-Risk Head Injury

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National Exams — December 2013 — 98-Ind-B10 Industrial Safety and Health. Closed book; no calculators permitted. Any five of the seven questions constitute a complete paper; all questions are of equal value (20 marks each). Answers are written in point form but fully, as instructed. Complete answers to all seven questions follow, with assumptions stated where the question invites them.

Reference texts: Brauer, Safety and Health for Engineers, 4th ed.; CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety), Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety; CSA Z1002 Occupational health and safety — Hazard identification and elimination and risk assessment and control; CSA Z1006 Management of work in confined spaces.