PT 3

• HAZARDS - a dangerous phenomenon, ingredient, human activity or state.
• NATURAL HAZARDS - environmental phenomena that have the potential to impact societies and the human environment.
• BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS - may include bacteria, viruses, insects, plants, birds, animals, and humans.
• RADIOACTIVE HAZARDS - Exposure to very high levels of radiation
• NON-IONIZING RADIATION - A type of low-energy radiation
• CHEMICAL HAZARDS - is simply the risks involved with using a chemical
• HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS:

  paints.

  drugs.

  cosmetics.

  cleaning chemicals.
• ASPHYXIANTS - deprive the body of oxygen.
• CORROSIVE - A substance  capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
• IRRITANT - causes a part of your body to itch (ACID, SOLVENT, SULFUR).
• SENSITIZING AGENTS - any foreign substance capable of inducing a state of altered reactivity in which the recipient reacts with an immediate or delayed exaggerated response.
• CARCINOGENS - substance that causes cancer.
• MUTAGENS - Anything that causes a mutation
• TERATOGENS - substances that cause congenital disorders
• PHYSICAL HAZARD - can cause harm with contact
• ERGONOMIC HAZARDS - an applied science concerned with designing and arranging things
• NOISE - most common physical hazards present in the occupational setting.
• Class 1: Explosives.

  Class 2: Gases.

  Class 3: Flammable and Combustible Liquids.

  Class 4: Flammable Solids.

  Class 5: Oxidizing Substances, Organic Peroxides.

  Class 6: Toxic Substances and Infectious Substances.

  Class 7: Radioactive Materials.

  Class 8: Corrosives.

  Class 9: Miscellaneous materials
• HAZARD SYMBOLS - designed to warn about hazardous or dangerous materials, locations, or objects, including electric currents, poisons, and radioactivity.