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NEBOSH 2011
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Copyright International Labour Organization 1998 for the definitions of the terminology contained in the ILO Encyclopaedia on Occupational Health and
Safety for the preparation of this technical glossary. ILO Encyclopaedia online: http://www.ilo.org/safework_bookshelf/english?d&nd=170000102&nh=0
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Abrasive
Absenteeism
Absorption
Acceptable/tolerable risk
levels
Access
Access boards
Access ladders
Accountability
Active monitoring
Acts or omissions
English
A substance capable of rubbing away or
grinding another substance
The repeated absence from work of
employees
With respect to noise: the use of noise
absorption materials within a building to reduce
or limit the effects of reflected sound and
hence reduce noise levels
A judgement made in a risk assessment of the
level of risk that should be accepted or
tolerated by a person or group of people; or
How safe is safe enough?
A way or means of approach, e.g. an
entrance, access ladder, passage, or doorway
Substantial wooden boards laid flat on
scaffolding to provide the surface of a working
platform suitable for people to walk on and
work from
Ladders securely fitted to the walls of an
excavation trench to allow safe access and
egress
To give account of, and answer for, discharge
of duties or conduct; responsibility
The ongoing activities which check that hazard
and risk preventive and protective measures,
as well as the arrangements to implement the
occupational health and safety management
system, conform to defined criteria
A term used in International Labour
Organisation conventions and
recommendations and in national legislation to
help define the extent of duty owed by one
party to another with regard to ensuring health
and safety, e.g. in article 16 of Occupational
Safety and Health Recommendation, 1981
workers should take reasonable care for their
own safety and that of other persons who may
be affected by their acts or omissions at work
Adjustable/self-adjusting
guards
Aerosol
Ambient
Aptitude
Arc-eye
Assembly point
Asthma
Attitude
Audit
Barrier
Battering
Behavioural controls
Benchmarking
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Biological agents
English
A micro-organism (virus, bacteria, fungi) or
human endoparasite, which may cause
infection, allergy or toxicity or otherwise create
a hazard to human health
Biological hazard
Biological monitoring
Board
Brush-cutter
Buried services
By-pass
Carcinogenic substances
Cellular defence
mechanism
Cement mixer
Checklist
Checkout
Chemical hazard
Cleaner
Combustible
Commuting accident
Compactor
Competent person
Condensation
Conduction (of heat)
Confined space
Consultation
Contract
Contractor
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Contravention
Control hierarchy
Control measure
Controlled drugs
Convection
English
The action of going against a rule ; violation,
infringement, transgression
Arabic
Conveyor
Coolant
Corporate
Corrosive substances
Costs
Cranes
Crushing
Current
Current path
Damage-only
Damping
Danger
Dangerous occurrence
Decibel scale
Demolition
Derrick
Designated walkway
Designer
Dilution ventilation
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Direct burning
Direct contact
Direct costs
Director
Display screen
equipment
Dissipated
Dose
Dosimeter
English
The transfer of heat directly from the flames of
a fire to a solid or liquid surface
When a person comes into contact with live
electrical conductors
Costs incurred by an organisation or individual
as a result of an accident or incident that can
be readily accounted for e.g. fines, wage
compensation, repair to plant or equipment
etc.
A member of a board appointed to direct or
manage the affairs of a commercial
corporation or company
Any alphanumeric or graphic display screen
Dispersed, scattered
The amount of a substance which is absorbed
by a worker's body; or the amount of a physical
agent (such as noise, radiation or heat) to
which the worker is exposed. The dose will
depend on how much of the substance (or
other agent) the worker is exposed to and how
long he or she is exposed
An apparatus for measuring doses or the like;
a recording device to measure ionizing
radiation, esp. one worn by a person exposed
to potentially harmful radiation, a device to
measure nose dose over an extended period
Double insulation
Drugs
Dumper truck
Dust
Dust monitoring
equipment
Duties
Duty of care
Earthing
Economic
Egress
Electric shock
Emergency lighting
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Emergency procedure
English
A procedure that identifies the potential for
accidents and emergency situations in an
organisation, and specifies arrangements
designed to prevent or minimise health and
safety risks associated with them
Control which is intended:
i. to avert arising or to reduce existing hazards
to persons, damage to machinery or to work
in progress;
ii. to be initiated by a single human action
Emission
Employee
Employee feedback
Employee representative
Employer
Employers liability
insurance
Enforcement agency
Engineering controls
Environment
Environmental
Environmental pollution
Environmental protection
Ergonomics
Thorough examination
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Excavation
Expectant mother
External agencies
External audit
English
Any earthwork, trench, well, shaft, tunnel or
underground
working
A pregnant woman
Independent from the company concerned.
Usually one to which a duty is owed e.g. for
reporting accidents
An audit conducted by independent auditors
from outside the organisation
Extinguishing media
Fail to danger
Fail to safety
Feedback loop
Fencing
Fibrillation
Filling in
Fire door
Fire drill
Fire instructions
Fire marshal
Fire spread
Fire triangle
First-aid
Fixed guard
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Flammable
Flammable liquid
English
Capable of being set on fire
A liquid with a flashpoint of 55C or below
Flashover
Flashpoint
Fragile roof
Frequency
Frequency
Fuel
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Fungus
Fuse
Gantry
Granulated
Groundwater
Guard-rail
Hand tool
Hand/arm vibration
Harm
Harmful substances
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Hazard
Head protection
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Health and safety culture
Health/medical
surveillance
Heat transmission
English
A concept that:
i. includes the values, beliefs and principles
that serve as a foundation for the safety
management system and
ii. includes the set of practices and behaviours
that exemplify and reinforce those basic
principles
Hoist
Hot work
Housekeeping
Human error
Human harm
Humidifier
Ignition
Immediate causes
Indirect costs
Individual
Individual factors
Induction
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Infirm
Influence of peers
Information
Ingress
Inspection
English
Of persons, with reference to physical
condition: not strong and healthy; physically
weak or feeble, esp. through age
The positive or negative effect co-workers
behaviour and attitude have on the behaviour
of an individual whilst at work
Items of knowledge or communication of
instructive knowledge
The action of going in or entering
careful scrutiny or survey; close or critical
examination
Instruction
Insulation
Insured costs
Intensity
Interlocked guard
Internal audit
Investigation
Ionising radiation
Irritant
Isolation
Isolation
Isolation
Jib
Job factors
Job rotation
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Job/task analysis
English
The breakdown of how a task is accomplished,
including a detailed examination of both
manual and mental activities, task and element
durations, task frequency, task allocation,
environmental conditions, necessary clothing
and equipment, and any other unique factors
involved in or required for one or more people
to perform a given task
Lanyard
Likelihood
Line manager
Lines of communication
Litigation
Load
Lone worker
Lone working
Lumbar
Machinery
Mandatory
Manual handling
Manufacturer
Manufacturers safety
data sheets
Means of escape
Mechanical handling
Middle manager
Mists
Mobile elevating work
platform
Moral
Motivation
Multi-disciplinary
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Musculoskeletal
Mutagenic
Near-miss
Non-ionising radiation
Notice board
Notification
English
Relating to the muscles of the body and
skeleton together
Substances and preparations which, if they are
inhaled or ingested or if they penetrate the
skin, may cause genetic defects which can be
inherited
An incident in which no injury or damage
results
Electromagnetic radiation with insufficient
energy to separate electrons from atoms and
molecules
A board upon which documents can be affixed
that display information for workers e.g. health
and safety bulletins
The action of notifying or making known, e.g.
an intimation, a notice
Nursing mother
Objective
Occupational accident
Occupational disease
Occupational exposure
limits
Operator
Organisational factors
Pallet truck
Particulate
Passive samplers
Pathogenic
Pedestrian
Peer group
Perception of risk
Periodic
Permit-to-work
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Personal hearing
protection
English
Protective equipment which is intended to be
worn by a person at work and reduces the
exposure of that person to noise likely to
damage hearing
Personal hygiene
Personal protective
equipment
Persons in control of
premises
Physical hazard
Physiological
Place of work
Plans in relation to
management action
Plant in relation to
machinery and
equipment
Portable appliance
testing (PAT)
Power tools
Practicable
Premises
Prescribed drugs
Priority
Proactive
Procedural controls
Prophylactic
Protective device
Psychological hazard
Quantifiable
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Reactive monitoring
English
Checks that failures in the hazard and risk
prevention and protection control measures,
and the OSH management system, as
demonstrated by the occurrence of injuries, ill
health, diseases and incidents, are identified
and acted upon
Reasonably practicable
Registration of sites
Remedial actions
Renovation
Reorganisation
Residual risk
Resistance
Risk
Risk assessment
Roll call
Root/underlying causes
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Sack truck
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Safe person
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Safe plant and equipment
Safe stacking
Safety
English
Items of machinery, equipment or appliances
used at work that are provided and maintained
in a condition that is safe and without risks to
health
The storage of goods, materials etc. on top of
one another in such a manner as to reduce
the risk of their collapse
The way in which work is organised and
(includes, for example, the layout of the
workplace, the order in which jobs are carried
out, or special precautions that have to be
taken before carrying out certain hazardous
tasks) carried out in order for it to be
conducted in as safe way as possible
The maximum gross load that maybe safely
lifted by a lifting appliance or item of loose gear
in a given condition
This is not just the absence of accidents, but
the result of ALL persons at work taking
positive actions to identify accident causes and
implement suitable preventative measures
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Safety committee
Safety device
Safety inspection
Safety sampling
Safety sign
Safety tours
Scaffold
Secondary hazards
Second-hand smoke
Segregation
Self-employed
Semi-quantitative risk
ranking
Senior manager
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English
The overreaction of the bodys immune system
to the presence of a substance to which that
person has become sensitised. Often
associated with sensitisation reactions of the
skin or respiratory system.
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Sensitiser
Severity
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Sensitisation
Sickness rates
Silencers
Site rules
Slips/trips/falls
Sludge
Smoke tubes
Societal expectations
Sound pressure
Staff turnover
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Statement of intent
English
A written declaration in a safety policy setting
out the goals of the organisation with respect
to the management of health and safety
Stress
Strimmer
Subordinate person
Substances
Substitution
Suitable and sufficient
Superficial defence
mechanisms
Supervision
Supervisor
Supply chain
Systematic
Target
Target organ
Task
Technical control
The public
Time-scales
Toe-board
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Toolbox talks
English
Short talks given to workers focused around
specific health and safety issues, such as slips
and trips, which allow workers, safety
professionals and managers to explore risks
and develop strategies for dealing with them.
Normally given in the workplace.
Toxic substances
Trade unions
Trapping
Trip device
Two-handed controls
Uninsured costs
Unprotected edges
Unsafe acts
Unsafe conditions
User checks
Violations
Waste transfer
Welfare
Welfare facilities
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Whole body vibration
English
Mechanical vibration which is transmitted into
the body, when seated or standing, through
the supporting surface, during a work activity
Winch
Work activities
Work equipment
Work platform
Workers
Working at height
Working environment
Workplace
Work-related disease
Work-related ill-health
Workspace
Workstation
Young person
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