Deck 2: Health and Safety Movement, Then and Now

Question 1

All 84 crew members on board the Ocean Ranger perished when it capsized.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Return on Investment (ROI) of safety programs is not a concern for safety managers.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Tragedies have changed the face of the safety movement at different times in the Canada.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Saskatchewan was the first province to implement worker's compensation.

Question 5

The integrated approach involves practitioners working together to predict, control, identify, and correct safety and health problems.

Question 6

The right to refuse applies only to industrial and construction workers.

Question 7

Which of the following statements reflects the trend in workplace accidents, since the Great Depression?

A) Due to few people working, the number of industrial accidents declined dramatically during the Great Depression.
B) The long term trend has shown a decline in overall fatalities.
C) The number of reported accidents has risen steadily.
D) Approximately three workplace related deaths occur each day.
E) The rate of decline in fatalities and improved during the past two decades.

Question 8

The Elliott Lake miners' strike led to the creation of Bill C-45.

Question 9

The three Es of safety are, Engineering, Effort, and Efficiency.

Question 10

There is evidence of occupational safety and health efforts as far back as the time of the Egyptian pharaohs.

Question 11

Which of the following health problems associated with the workplace are noted contributors to the progression of the health and safety movement?

A) Lung disease
B) Mercury poisoning
C) Vision loss
D) Both a and b
E) All of the above

Question 12

Which of the following may be considered a significant development or contributor to the health and safety movement in Canada?

A) Ontario's implementing a workers compensation program in 1914.
B) Bill C-45 - the Westray Bill
C) The Ham Commission
D) The Elliot Lake Miners' strike
E) All of the above

Question 13

The concern for health and safety began during the Industrial Revolution.

Question 14

As new products, procedures, and technology enter the workplace, the range of health and safety knowledge by safety professionals increases.

Question 15

"Assumption of risk", means that the workers accept the risk and inherent danger when accepting a job.

Question 16

The Foster Wheeler study showed a very high correlation between safety and unions.

Question 17

While studying the development of health and safety, names that would likely appear include:

A) Hammurabi
B) Ramazzini
C) Meredith
D) James Ham
E) All of the above

Question 18

Early safety programs that were based on the "Three E's of safety" are which of the following?

A) Education, Energy, and Engineering
B) Education, Enforcement, and Engineering
C) Engineering, Effort, and Efficiency
D) Efficiency, Engineering, and Employees
E) Efficiency, Education, and Enforcement

Question 19

The safety and health movement today is characterized by professionalization and integration.

Question 20

Organized labor did not play a crucial role in the development of the safety movement.

Question 21

Which of the following were considered to be "employer biased laws"?

A) Assumption of risk
B) Fellow servant rule
C) Contributory negligence
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 22

Who wrote De Re Metallica, emphasizing the need for ventilation in mines and illustrating various devices that could be used to introduce fresh air into mines?

A) Georgius Agricola
B) Joseph LaDou
C) Hammurabi
D) Bernardino Ramazzini
E) Philippus Aureolus

Question 23

Among the significant tragedies listed, which one resulted in the most worker fatalities?

A) Elliot Lake uranium miners went on strike
B) Sinking of the Ocean Ranger
C) Westray Mine Disaster
D) Résidence du Havre nursing home fire
E) A VIA Rail /OC Transpo double-decker collision

Question 24

Which piece of legislation limited working days to 10 hours and set a minimum age limit of 12 years for boys and 14 for girls?

A) Health and Morals of Apprentices Act
B) Ontario Factories Act
C) Workmen's Compensation Act of 1914
D) Industrial Standards acts in Ontario
E) National Labor Relations Act

Question 25

What event was a major driver for the people of Manchester, England to demand better working conditions in the factories?

A) Smelter workers and metallurgists diseases associated with the handling of and exposure to mercury
B) A spike in WCB claims
C) An outbreak of fever among the children working in their cotton mills
D) The fatal injuries to a prominent labour leader
E) Shortage of able-bodied workers