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Glossary of
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more information about personal injury law terms.
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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.
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