IFSS Human and Animal Food Laboratory
Mid Core
Content Area: Advanced Safety
Description: Workplace practices, conditions, and behaviors that produce a consistent safety outcome and reduce the risk of injury.
Topic Areas:
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Description: Agents, materials, and conditions that may produce harm to people.
Terminal Competency:
Summarize hazards encountered in the laboratory.
Enabling Competencies:
1. Characterize chemical hazards in the laboratory.
2. Evaluate hazard.
To see a set of behavioral anchors, which provide further detail about the enabling competencies and can be used for assessment against the enabling competencies, contact IFPTI.
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Description: Evaluating the efficacy of current practices to reduce the risk of harm from hazards in the laboratory.
Terminal Competency:
Evaluate current safety practices.
Enabling Competencies:
1. Differentiate between agency requirements.
2. Perform a safety audit.
3. Perform a risk assessment.
To see a set of behavioral anchors, which provide further detail about the enabling competencies and can be used for assessment against the enabling competencies, contact IFPTI.
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Description: Primary and secondary facility barriers that prevent or mitigate exposure to hazards in the laboratory.
Terminal Competency:
Evaluate engineering controls.
Enabling Competencies:
1. Explain the functionality of barriers.
2. Track maintenance.
To see a set of behavioral anchors, which provide further detail about the enabling competencies and can be used for assessment against the enabling competencies, contact IFPTI.
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Description: Equipment that keeps laboratory personnel and others safe.
Terminal Competency:
Evaluate laboratory equipment/PPE.
Enabling Competencies:
1. Verify functionality of safety equipment.
To see a set of behavioral anchors, which provide further detail about the enabling competencies and can be used for assessment against the enabling competencies, contact IFPTI.
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Description: Training, drills, actions, and other safety preparation activities.
Terminal Competency:
Evaluate safety preparation activities.
Enabling Competencies:
1. Promote safety behavior.
2. Serve in a safety leadership position.
To see a set of behavioral anchors, which provide further detail about the enabling competencies and can be used for assessment against the enabling competencies, contact IFPTI.
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