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This document contains 30 multiple choice questions about workplace safety concepts and an OSHA 300 injury log. It also contains 3 short answer questions about hazards in the workplace. The multiple choice questions cover topics such as responsibilities for worker safety, examples of safety and health hazards, approaches to hazard avoidance, and calculations using injury data from an OSHA 300 log. The short answer questions ask about disadvantages of overreacting to minor hazards, why an industrial hygienist needs more scientific instruments than a safety specialist, and the four categories of hazard seriousness recognized by OSHA.

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Worker Safety A Line Function

This document contains 30 multiple choice questions about workplace safety concepts and an OSHA 300 injury log. It also contains 3 short answer questions about hazards in the workplace. The multiple choice questions cover topics such as responsibilities for worker safety, examples of safety and health hazards, approaches to hazard avoidance, and calculations using injury data from an OSHA 300 log. The short answer questions ask about disadvantages of overreacting to minor hazards, why an industrial hygienist needs more scientific instruments than a safety specialist, and the four categories of hazard seriousness recognized by OSHA.

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MCQs (15 Marks)

[1] Worker safety a line function


a. True
b. False
[2] It is often difficult for safety and health managers to win the respect and approval of top
management
a. True
b. False
[3] A firm employing 150 workers has 22 recordable injuries or illnesses in a year. its total injury–
illness incidence rate is 14.67
a. True
b. False
[4] Top management has set a safety and health objective for the year for a plant employing 135
employees. The objective is to reduce the LWDI of the firm to a level lower than the national
average: 3.6. By May 1, the safety and health manager has logged 12 first-aid cases, 3 lost-time
injuries, and 2 illnesses, both of which resulted in hospitalization. Based on these preliminary
results, does it appear that the firm will meet top management’s objective for the year
a. Yes
b. No
[5] Gears, saws, and punch presses are Examples of
a. Safety hazards
b. Health Hazards
[6] Cotton dust is considered as:
a. Safety hazards
b. Health Hazards
[7] Chronic loud noise is considered as:
a. Safety hazards
b. Health Hazards
[8] Welding near open flammable or combustible materials is an example of
a. Safety hazards
b. Health Hazards
[9] Which type of hazard appears to be more grave:
a. Safety
b. health
[10] What aspects of the safety and health manager’s job are related to the personnel department?
a. Industrial relations
b. Reductions in energy consumption
c. Occupational Safety and Health
[11] safety and health managers attempt to eliminate all workplace hazards?
a. True
b. False
[12] from the perspective of a total plant safety program, Oil leaks from forklift trucks and water or
wax on floor during cleaning operations are mutually exclusive
a. True
b. False

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[13] Safety rules with penalties for breaking them is considered engineering approach for hazard
avoidance
a. True
b. False
[14] Reliability engineers use a method called failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) to trace the
effects of individual component failures on the overall,
a. True
b. False
[15] Defensive driving is an example application of which of the three fail-safe principles
a. General fail-safe principle
b. Fail-safe principle of redundancy
c. Principle of worst case
[16] Deadman control of and electric drill is an example application of which of the three fail-safe
principles
a. General fail-safe principle
b. Fail-safe principle of redundancy
c. Principle of worst case
[17] Factor of safety is one of _________ for Hazard avoidance
a. Engineering controls
b. Administrative or work-practice controls
c. Personal protective equipment
d. Analytical approach
[18] In a Fault-Tree diagram All of the causal event conditions are required to be present to cause a
result to occur when the conditions are connected by an AND gate
a. True
b. False
[19] Swiss Cheese Theory is categorized as
a. fail-safe principles
b. Engineering controls
c. Engineering approach
d. Analytical approach
[20] Cost–Benefit Analysis is categorized as
a. fail-safe principles
b. Engineering controls
c. Engineering approach
d. Analytical approach
Identify which combinations of column totals on the OSHA 300 log correspond to each of the categories
named as follows: [OSHA 300 log is attached at the end of the exam]
[21] Lost-workday cases
a. OSHA 300 cols H + I
b. OSHA 300 cols G + H + I + J (or the total of all of the M columns)
c. OSHA 300 cols K + L
d. OSHA 300 col L
[22] Cases involving days away from work and deaths
a. OSHA 300 cols H + I

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b. OSHA 300 cols G + H
c. OSHA 300 col J
d. OSHA 300 cols K + L
[23] Nonfatal cases without lost workdays
a. OSHA 300 col J
b. OSHA 300 cols G + H + I + J (or the total of all of the M columns)
c. OSHA 300 cols K + L
d. OSHA 300 col L
[24] Total cases
a. OSHA 300 cols H + I
b. OSHA 300 cols G + H
c. OSHA 300 col J
d. OSHA 300 cols G + H + I + J (or the total of all of the M columns)
[25] Lost workdays
a. OSHA 300 cols H + I
b. OSHA 300 col J
c. OSHA 300 cols K + L
d. OSHA 300 col L
[26] Cost of wages paid for time lost by workers who were not injured is considered as
a. hidden costs of accidents
b. compensation payments
c. Insurance premium
[27] Total-Recordable-Cases (TRC). Counts all recordable injury and illness cases, except fatalities
a. True
b. False
[28] Injury incidence rate. Counts total number of injury cases
a. True
b. False
[29] To compute the incidence rate we use a standard factor to make the rate more understandable,
this factor is calculated as follows:
a. 50 weeks per year at 40 hours per week
b. 52 weeks per year at 40 hours per week
c. 50 weeks per year at 10 hours per day
[30] Extra cost of overtime work necessitated by the accident
a. hidden costs of accidents
b. compensation payments
c. Insurance premium

Determine the following (5Marks)

1. Describe at least two disadvantages of overreacting to minor hazards in the workplace. (2 marks)
(1)Causes other more serious hazards to be overlooked while reacting toless serious ones.
(2)Deteriorates credibility with top management

2. Why does an industrial hygienist need more scientific instruments to evaluate hazards than does
a safety specialist? (1 mark)
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the industrial hygienist must look for "unseen" hazards.

3. Name the four categories of seriousness of hazards as recognized by OSHA (2 marks)


Imminent danger,
serious violations,
nonserious violations,
de minimus violations

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