CTSP EXAM QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS 2024-2025
TRAINING IS ESSENTIAL BUT?SO ARE REGULATORY COMPLIANCE AND
ESTABLISHED POLICY AND PROCEDURE.
HIRING PRACTICES AND EQUIPMENT ENTER THE PICTURE
ALL OF THESE ARE ESSENTIAL TO SAFETY
CTSP OBJECTIVES #1
SUPPORT AND PROMOTE EMPLOYERS TO ESTABLISH AND MANAGE SAFETY
POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
CTSP OBJECTIVES#2
ESTABLISH A NETWORK OF TCIA CERTIFIED SAFETY COACHES POSSESSING THE
FOLLOWING SKILLS:
MENTORING
TEAM BUILDING
MANAGING SAFETY PROGRAMMES
INVESTIGATION OF INCIDENTS
FEEDBACK
CTSP OBJECTIVES#3
PROVIDE FOR COLLECTION ,COMPILATION, AND SHARING OF SAFETY KNOWLEDGE
CTSP OBJECTIVES #4
IMPROVE PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF THE TREE CARE PROFESSION
THE IDEAL SAFETY PROGRAM :
FULFILS A SOCIAL,LEGAL AND FINANCIAL ISSUES
POSITIVELY IMPACT HUMAN RESOURCE ISSUES SUCH AS RECRUITMENT AND
,RETENTION OF EMPLOYEES
MONETARY LOSSES#1
Workers who suffer a disabling injury lose 40 percent of their income over 5 years.
MONETARY LOSSES#2
Indirect costs include costs to train and compensate a replacement worker, repair
damaged property, investigate the accident and implement corrective action
MONETARY LOSSES#3
Studies indicate that indirect costs are higher than direct costs in an approximate ratio
of 20:1 to a low of 1 :1
MONETARY LOSSES#4
The indirect costs the investigation time, the loss of a client, the crew downtime
amounted to almost 80 percent of the total cost.
Safety Benefits:
On average, workplaces that establish safety programs reduce their injury and illness
costs by 20 to 40 percent.
Ingredients of a formal safety program
1. Management commitment and Employee involVEMENT
2.Work-site analysis
3.Hazard PREVENTION AND CONTROL
4.Learning and improvement
Key in all models is that management sets the tone that safety is important.
If staff is responsible for correcting or eliminating identified hazards but no training is
, provided, what is the outcome?
WHATS A Safety Culture?
1 Positive workplace attitudes
2 Involvement and buy in of all members
3 Mutual, meaningful and measurable safety goals
4 Policies and procedures that act as
5 Personal training at all levels
6 Responsibility and accountability throughout the organization
What are the components of a safety culture?
1 All individuals believe they have a right to a safe
2 Each person accepts personal responsibility
3 Everyone has a duty to protect the safety of others
4 Safety procedures keep pace with change through the safety committee or by some
alternative means.
What clashes with a safety culture?
1 Behavioural problems
2 Hazards generated due to unsafe conditions & acts
3. 90 percent of all acute traumas are caused due to critical error by the employee
himself.
4 90 percent of all serious accidents are directly related with behavior.
Four leading critical errors:
1 Eyes not on task
2 Mind not on task
3 Being in the path of the hazard
4 Inadvertently moving into the path of the hazard.
The second challenge, after training, is getting employees to give the appropriate
amount of thought to these critical errors. Almost all injury causing errors occur when
the employee is in one or more of the following mental states: Rushing, Fatigue,
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