Deck 4: Roles and Professional Certifications for Safety and Health Professionals

Question 1

Occupational health nurses are concerned with conserving the health of workers through:

A)Prescribing methods to eliminate common stressors
B)Diagnosis and treatment
C)Prevention, recognition, and treatment
D)Supporting occupational physicians

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Industrial hygienists are concerned primarily with mechanical and machine related hazards.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

As the world gets flatter, safety professionals will have to become change leaders.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The job of the safety manager includes analysis, prevention, planning, evaluation, promotion, and compliance.

Question 5

Employees have important responsibilities in working safely and in maintaining a safe and healthy workplace.

Question 6

Occupational physicians are medical doctors who focus most of their attention on:

A)Treating workplace injuries
B)Collaborating with health physicists
C)Anticipating and preventing problems
D)Supervising occupational health nurses

Question 7

The modern safety and health team is headed by a safety manager.

Question 8

Prescribing methods to eliminate environmental stressors in the workplace is the job of the environmental engineer.

Question 9

One of the contributions engineers can make to safety is designing safety into products.

Question 10

Not all safety engineers are engineering majors. In fact, graduates of various technology degrees may have more formal instruction in safety than engineering graduates.

Question 11

The most widely pursued safety and health related certifications include:

A)Certified professional ergonomist
B)Certified safety professional
C)Certified occupational health nurse
D)All of the above

Question 12

Members of an organization's safety team might include all of the following: safety engineer, industrial hygienist, occupational physician, and total productive maintenance specialist.

Question 13

Which of the following professional certifications requires the delivery of 270 hours of training or teaching in safety, health, and environmental related areas?

A)Associate safety professional
B)Certified environmental, safety, and health trainer
C)Occupational safety and health technician
D)Safety trained supervisor

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT a responsibility of the health physicist?

A)Monitoring radiation in the air
B)Designing safety into nuclear components
C)Supervising decontamination activities
D)Measuring radioactive levels in biological samples

Question 15

Recognizing the impact of environmental stressors on people is one of the responsibilities of the industrial hygienist.

Question 16

In order to be a safety manager, you must have at least a bachelors degree in safety management or engineering.

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT a reason for the emerging role of safety professionals?

A)Need to be able to partner with top leaders in organizations
B)Less competition in the global marketplace
C)The world is getting "flatter"
D)Organization are becoming leaner

Question 18

Risk reduction strategies and transferring risk to insurance companies is called:

A)Insurance fraud
B)Transference
C)Hazard reduction
D)Risk management

Question 19

The only college degree program that prepares students to be safety managers is the safety technology degree.