C. 2. Read the text SAFETY HAZARDS STUDY
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OSHA also conducted a small scale study to investigate the claim that hazardous waste inspections usually focus on health hazards rather than safety hazards. This was a concern to OSHA since employers reported to them that safety hazards are far more common than health hazards and are the cause of most recordable incidents. To address this claim, an information gathering study of safety hazards was undertaken at six hazardous waste sites in the United States. The objective of the study was to identify potential safety hazards and implemented control measures. These hazards were identified by observations of as many site activities as possible along with occasional interviews with site workers and safety representatives.
The following hazards were identified from the information gathering exercise:
• Electrical hazards - this included improper use of chords, damaged chords and unlabelled circuit breakers.
• Surface hazards - these included a lack of fall protection on elevated surfaces, and inadequate floor surfaces leading to slips and trips.
• General environmental controls - hazards involving general environmental controls such as confined spaces, lockout / tagout operations and sanitation were found to be common.
• Material handling equipment and motor vehicles - these included inappropriate use of heavy equipment on vehicles (leading to rollovers) and operating heavy equipment too close to power lines. In addition, site representatives reported that workers driving leased or rented vehicles were a source of many accidents. This was attributed to crossing dangerous road junctions and frequently falling asleep at the wheel.
| chordхорда gatherсобирать | fall asleep заснуть frequentlyчасто | along withвместе slipпоскользнуться | |||
| wheelколесо | claimутверждать, требовать; претензия, требование | ||||
| breaker выключатель junctionперекресток powerмощь, энергия | elevatedвозвышенный, приподнятый, надземный rentарендная плата, рента; брать / сдавать в аренду undertake – undertook – undertaken предпринимать | ||||
| observationнаблюдение tripпоездка, путешествие | circuitцикл, кругооборот, цепь, контур, схема leaseаренда, наем; сдавать или брать в аренду | ||||
| occasionalслучайный, редкий rather than а не, вместо representative представитель tag outсвязывать, скреплять | attribute приписывать, относить за счет confine ограничивать, придерживаться improperнеподходящий, неуместный rollover перекатывание, опрокидывание | ||||
inappropriate неуместный, неподходящий, неcooтветствующий
vehicle[′vi:ikl]перевозочное средство (автомобиль и т.д.)
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