|
WORKPLACE INJURY GLOSSARY |
 |
Glossary of
Workplace Injury Terms
A
B C
D E
F G
H I
J K L
M N
O P
Q R
S T
U V
W X Y Z #
Click on
the first letter of the word from the list above to go to
the appropriate section of the glossary.
Contact us if you would like a personal injury law glossary or
one of other legal glossaries for
your website.
- R -
Raceway: A channel designed expressly for
holding wires, cables, or busbars, including conduit, tubing, wireways, busways,
gutters, or moldings.
Rating: The stated operating limit of a
piece of equipment, expressed in a unit of measure such as volts or watts.
Rated load: The manufacturer's specified
maximum load to be lifted by a hoist or to be applied to a scaffold or scaffold
component.
Rebuttal: Evidence introduced to counter,
disprove or contradict the opposition's evidence or claim, or responsive legal
argument.
Receptacle: A device, such as a jack or an
outlet, to which conductors are attached, and where a plug makes contact with a
source of electric current.
Reconsideration of a summary rating: A
process used when you don't have an attorney and you think mistakes were made in
your permanent disability rating.
Registered Professional Engineer: A person
who is registered as a professional engineer in the state where the work is to
be performed. However, a professional engineer, registered in any state is
deemed to be a "registered professional engineer" within the meaning
of this standard when approving designs for "manufactured protective
systems" or "tabulated data" to be used in interstate commerce.
Regular work: Your old job, paying the
same wages and benefits as paid at the time of an injury and located within a
reasonable commuting distance of where you lived at the time of your injury.
Regulations: A rule, ordinance, law or
device, by which conduct or performance is controlled.
Resistance: Anything that impedes the flow
of electricity, particularly in direct (DC) current. Resistance is measured in
ohms.
Re-shoring: The construction operation in
which shoring equipment (also called reshores or re-shoring equipment) is
placed, as the original forms and shores are removed, to support partially cured
concrete and construction loads.
Restricted Area: A location that's within
50 meters of a live surface facility that might release hydrocarbons.
Risk Assessment Matrix: A tool used to
compare assessed risk, based on the probability and consequences of a potential
incident.
Risk: The possibility of injury, loss or
environment incident created by a hazard. The significance of the risk is
determined by the probability of an unwanted incident, and the severity of its
consequences.
Rollover protective structure (ROPS):
Vehicle structures such as roll-bars, frames, roll-protective cabs etc.,
designed to prevent the vehicle operator from being crushed as a result of a
rollover.
Rope grab: A deceleration device which
travels on a lifeline and automatically, by friction, engages the lifeline and
locks so as to arrest the fall of an employee. A rope grab usually employs the
principle of inertial locking, cam/level locking, or both.
Roof: The exterior surface on the top of a
building. This does not include floors or form work which, because a building
has not been completed, temporarily become the top surface of a building.
Roofing work: The hoisting, storage,
application, and removal of roofing materials and equipment, including related
insulation, sheet metal, and vapor barrier work, but not including the
construction of the roof deck.
DISCLAIMER: The
information contained within this personal injury site is of a general nature
and is not meant to be a restatement of any rules of law. Your
use of this site does not create an attorney-client
relationship. You should hire an attorney to obtain legal
advice for your specific case.
© Copyright 2004,
Consultwebs.com, Inc., All rights reserved. Personal
Injury Law
Glossary.
|
