19 Chapter Outline 2.1 Workplace Injuries 2.1.1 Electrical Shock 2.1.2 Burns 2.1.3 Eye Injury 2.1.4 Puncture Wound 2.1.5 Cuts 2.2 Working Safely 2.2.1 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) 2.2.2 Ladders and Scaffolding ff ff 2.2.3 Proper Tool Use 2.2.4 Safe Work Methods 2.3 Responding to an Accident 2.4 Hazardous Environments 2.4.1 Recognize the Hazard 2.4.2 Report the Hazard 2.4.3 Remove the Hazard 2.4.4 Review the Hazard 2.4.5 OSHA’s Construction Focus Four 2.5 Reference Objectives Information in this chapter will enable you to: • Understand the effects of electrical shock. ff ff • Describe conditions likely to affect the severity of an ff ff electrical shock. • List basic workplace safety rules. • Explain a lockout/tagout/blockout program. • Describe steps for helping a shock victim. • Identify common workplace hazards. Technical Terms arc fl ash fl blockout device electrical burn electrocution insulated tool lockout device personal protective equipment (PPE) tagout CHAPTER 2 Safety Tment. his chapter teaches you the basics of work- ing safely in a residential wiring environ- Knowledge of safety will boost your confi so that you may do your job well fidence without fear or apprehension. However, be very careful about letting this confidence turn into fi complacency. Shortcuts around safe practices quickly become shortcuts to disaster. 2.1 Workplace Injuries There are many types of injuries that may occur on the work site, the most obvious one being electrical shock. Other possible injuries include burns, eye wounds, punctures, cuts, and back injuries. The effects of these injuries range from stop- ping an installation because a cut needs to be bandaged to infl grief onto family and flicting friends because carelessness caused a death. These are situations that you can avoid if you learn about safe methods, practice those meth- ods, and repeat the practice until safety becomes a habit. 2.1.1 Electrical Shock Electricity passing through the human body causes an electrical shock. The severity of a Copyright Goodheart-Willcox Co., Inc.