cases in which there was an occupational injury or illness, including death, but not including...
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Cases in which there was an occupational injury or illness, including death, but not
including first-aid cases consisting of one-time treatment and subsequent
observation of minor scratches, cuts, bumps, or splinters.
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Recordable cases
An OSHA penalty that means no direct or immediate relationship to job safety or
health.
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De minimus violation
Provides income continuation and reimbursement of accident expenses for
employees who are injured on the job regardless of who was responsible for the
accident.
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Workers’ Compensation
Security devices that allow access to people based on biological factors, such as their fingerprints, the iris or retina of their
eye, or their voice.
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Biometric access devices
Hidden computer programs that unknowingly attach to other programs and
files and often destroy or corrupt them.
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Computer virus
1) The test is part of an ongoing investigation of losses suffered by the employer. 2) The tested employee has
access to the property in question. 3) The employer has reasonable suspicion of the employee's involvement. 4) The employer provides a statement explaining the basis
for suspecting the above conditions.
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Conditions to administer polygraph
A report that may contain information regarding an individual's credit standing,
character, reputation, personal characteristics, and mode of living.
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Consumer report
Chemical imbalances that influence a person's functioning and may contribute to
a loss of emotional control and violence.
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Neurological disorders
Restriction on the dollar amounts that various employees are allowed to spend
without further authorization.
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Internal financial procedures limits
A disease of physical condition that poses a significant risk of substantial harm to the
health or safety of the individual or others, such as a highly contagious disease among job holders who work in food preparation.
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Direct threat
A program usually operated by the human resource department with the help of social service agencies in the community that is
designed to help employees with their personal problems, particularly alcoholism,
drug abuse, financial indebtedness, and marital conflict.
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Employee assistance program (EAP)
The highest does of a material or exposure to it that causes no ill effects.
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No-adverse effect level
The study of diseases in the environment and of conditions that may cause wide-
spread health problems.
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Epidemiology
The exclusive right or privilege of authors or proprietors to print or otherwise
multiply, distribute, and sell copies of their literary, artistic, or intellectual creations.
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Copyright
OSHA standard that requires employers to notify employees when hazardous
chemicals are present in the workplace and to train employees to work with them
safely.
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Hazard communication standard
The application of technology and engineering to human abilities, interests,
and feelings. Sometimes called biotechnology.
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Ergonomics
A theory that explains the likelihood that a security office will detect a problem based
on two factors: the detectability of the problem relative to background noise and
the expectancy of an occurrence.
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Signal detection theory
An OSHA penalty that means substantial probability of death or serious physical
harm and employer knew or should have known of the hazard.
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Serious violation
Used to determine workers' compensation and unemployment insurance costs based upon the average number of employees from that company who are drawing on
funds.
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Experience rating
An analysis of the level of risk and frequency of losses to determine how
secure a company's assets are and the potential threats to these assets.
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Vulnerability analysis
Self-employed persons, family farms where only family members work, workplaces
already covered by other federal statutes, and state and local government.
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Not covered by OSHA
Makes companies criminally responsible for internal fraud, and in extreme cases could
force the dissolution of a company. Penalties can be reduced by effective anti-
fraud programs.
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Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations Act
A word, phrase, symbol, or design that identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods or services of one party from
those of others.
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Trademark
Program aimed at helping employees stay healthy by encouraging them to obtain the proper rest, exercise, and nutrition, and to avoid smoking, alcohol, and drug abuse.
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Employee wellness program (EWP)
Intense situational pressures, convenient opportunities, and low moral character or
honesty.
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Fraud determinants
Guards for certain types of security firms and workers who manufacture or distribute
controlled substances and have direct access to these controlled substances.
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Applicants who can be polygraphed
Private information developed and owned exclusively by an organization or individual.
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Proprietary information
Standard of OSHA requiring each employers to furnish a place of
employment that is free from recognized hazards that cause or are likely to cause
death or serious physical harm to employees.
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General duty clause
The lowest dose level at which toxic effects can be demonstrated.
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Toxicity threshold
A disorder that occurs when people allow their romantic fantasies to go unchecked
and become irrational desires. This condition may become violent when the
person is rejected.
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Obsessive disorders
Number of injuries, illnesses, or lost workdays; divided by the total hours worked by all employees during the
calendar year; times 200,000
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Incidence rate
Unpleasant or disease-producing stress that is destructive to physical and mental
well-being.
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Distress
An OSHA penalty that means recurrent willful violation of a similar nature.
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Repeated violation
A system of computer components between two networks that checks and
controls the transfer of information between the networks.
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Firewall
An outburst of angry emotion when a person is out of control and likely to injure
someone of damage something.
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Intermittent explosive disorders
The amount stores have relative to what they should have based on how much
merchandise they have bought and what has been sold. Measures a store's losses -
mostly through employee theft.
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Inventory shrinkage
Voluntary long-term agreements forming cooperative relationships between SHA and
groups of employers, employees, union representatives, and other stakeholders to
improve safety by eliminating serious hazards and creating safe working
procedures.
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Strategic Partnership Programs
An extensive report that includes information on an individual's character,
general reputation, personal characteristics, and mode of living.
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Investigative consumer report
Must be maintained by employers for each hazardous chemical that is used,
processed, or stored.
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Material safety data sheet
Any condition where a high probability exists that an accident may occur that will result in death or serious physical harm.
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Imminent danger
Injuries and disorders such as carpal tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, and sciatica, that are
caused from overexertion and repetitive motion.
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Musculoskeletal disorder
The first stage of stress in which the body prepares for a fight or flight response by
activating the endocrine system.
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Alarm reaction
A legal document that protects the inventors and ideas of an inventor from a
period of 17 years.
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Patents
An OSHA penalty that means direct relationship to safety or health, but unlikely
to cause serious physical harm.
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Other than serious violations/ Non-serious violation
The federal agency that enforces the requirement that each employer is to
provide a place of employment that is free from recognized hazards that are causing
or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees.
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Occupational Safety & Health Agency (OSHA)
A microorganization that can cause disease in humans, such as hepatitis B virus and the human immunodeficiency virus that
causes AIDS.
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Bloodborne pathogen
An irrational fear held by people who thing others are out to harm or destroy them.
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Paranoia
Regular rhythmic physical exercise that raises the heart rate to a training level and
keeps it there for a period of time, preferable at least 20 to 30 minutes daily.
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Aerobic exercise
Techniques used to reverse the alarm reaction and reduce stress, such as
abdominal breathing, transcendental meditation, and biofeedback.
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Relaxation techniques
The inability to handle continued stress on the job and the feelings of psychological
exhaustion.
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Burnout
The physiological response of the body. The initial stage is the alarm reaction,
which readies the body to make an immediate response. The second stage attempts to return the body to a state of
balance. The third stage, exhaustion, occurs when the body experiences
repeated alarm reactions.
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Stress
The use of force or violence against persons or property for purposes of intimidation, coercion, or ransom.
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Terrorism
Programs where management, labor, and OSHA establish cooperative relationships at a workplace. Management agrees to meet
an established set of criteria, and the employees agree to cooperate with
management to assure a safe and healthful workplace. OSHA removes the company
from its list of scheduled inspections.
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Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)
The study of poisonous materials and the exposure thresholds of each.
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Toxicology
Death, one or more lost workdays, restriction of work or motion, loss of
consciousness, transfer to another job, or medical treatment other than first aid.
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OSHA reportable injuries
A system of cameras and monitors that allow a security officer to observe the
monitors in one location and know what is happening in many sensitive areas.
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Closed circuit television (CCTV)
An OSHA penalty that means intentional disregard for a specific OSHA standard or
the general duty clause.
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Willful violation
An act taken by an employee that undermines the purpose for which an
enterprise exists.
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Workplace violence
The use of electronic monitoring equipment to measure internal body functions of
which individuals are normally unaware, such as blood pressure and muscle tension.
Being able to observe these functions helps individuals to control them.
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Biofeedback
Refusing to hire or insisting on transferring a pregnant of fertile woman who would be
unavoidably exposed to substances creating a reproductive hazard. The
Supreme Court has ruled that these are a form of sex discrimination in spite of the
risks.
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Fetal protection policy