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Glossary of Occupational Health Safety Terms © Industrial Accident Prevention Association, 2006. All rights reserved. About the Glossary This glossary is designed for joint health and safety committee members, health and safety representatives, and others with workplace health and safety responsibilities. It provides easy to understand definitions of common workplace health and safety terms. The glossary does not attempt to provide strict legal or technical definitions. For definitions of more specialized health and safety terms, see For More Information, at the end of this publication, or feel free to contact us at: IAPA Toll Free: 1-800-406-IAPA (4272) www.iapa.ca Glossary of Occupational Health Safety Terms i © Industrial Accident Prevention Association, 2006. All rights reserved. A Absorption – The entry of a substance into the body through broken or unbroken skin. Accident – An unplanned event that results in harm to people, damage to property or loss to process. Accident Causation – The many factors that act together to cause accidents. They include: personal factors, job factors, and lack of management control factors. Personal factors: inadequate capability lack of knowledge/skill improper motivation stress Job factors: inadequate leadership or supervision inadequate engineering inadequate purchasing inadequate maintenance inadequate work standards/procedures inadequate hazard controls Lack of management control factors: inadequate program inadequate program standards inadequate compliance with standards inadequate hazard controls Accident Investigation – The process of systematically gathering and analyzing information about