The Quality & Risk Team’s Hazard Identification Quiz was a great success! Thank you to everyone who participated.

The challenge was to categorize the hazards below based on the ten groups:  Poor posture, old wiring, faulty food chopper, frequent lifting, blood, X-ray, insect bite, fumes, loudspeaker, wet staircase.

Hazard groups:

1. Electricity
2. Chemicals
3. Noise
4. Gravity
5. Biological
6. Radiation
7. Manual tasks
8. Temperatures
9. Machinery and equipment
10. Psychosocial

More than 95% of the responses were correct!

Correct answers:

• Poor Posture – Manual tasks
• Old Wiring – Electricity
• Faulty Food Chopper – Machinery & Equipment
• Frequent Lifting – Manual tasks
• Blood – Biological
• X-Ray – Radiation
• Insect Bites – Biological
• Fumes – Chemicals
• Loudspeaker – Noise
• Wet Staircase – Gravity

The winner was randomly selected and will receive a $30 voucher of their choice:  Congratulations to Nathan March from the Community Pathways team!

Stay tuned for our next quiz.  We hope to have even more participants!

Parham Fouladi
Risk Management Coordinator