E4: Confined Spaces — Hazards or Risk Compounders?

Kansas City Convention Center 

Room: 2505 A 

CM Credit Hours: 1 

Occupational Safety and Health Professionals are focused on identifying hazards; assessing the potential health risks from those hazards; and implementing controls. Risk assessment is the core of our exposure assessment process. Controls are methods of risk reduction. Other conditions can be viewed as risk compounders. Confined spaces are one condition that can be viewed as a risk compounder. The confined space itself is not a hazard, but a hazard amplifier. This session will look at a model for exposure assessment which includes hazards, risk reducers (controls) as well as risk compounders (like confined spaces).

Upon completion, the participant will be able to:

• Compare hazard assessment, risk assessment, and exposure assessment.
• Identify risk modifiers that cause a hazard to have more or less risk.
• Recognize where risk modifiers should be in exposure assessments. 

Introductory

Polling

Q&A

Academia/Education

All Industries

Also part of the Virtual Program

Available as part of AIHA Connect OnDemand

Confined Spaces

Hazard Recognition/Exposure Assessment