Deck 17: Safety Regulations in Employment

Question 1

Matching
a. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
b. assumption of risk
c. fellow servant doctrine
d. contributory negligence
e. permanent total disability
f. compensable injuries
g. general duty clause
h. maximum medical improvement
i. employer 's size
j. OSHA requirement
A rule, abolished in most states by employers' liability acts, that an employer is not responsible for the injury one employee does to another employee if the employees were carefully chosen.

Answer 1

c

Question 2

Infectious diseases are compensable when employment increases the risk of contracting such
diseases.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Injuries that occur as a result of horseplay, intoxication, or violation of safety rules are noncom-
pensable.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

OSHA penalizes employees for violating OSHA standards.

Question 5

Matching
a. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
b. assumption of risk
c. fellow servant doctrine
d. contributory negligence
e. permanent total disability
f. compensable injuries
g. general duty clause
h. maximum medical improvement
i. employer 's size
j. OSHA requirement
The best the worker will ever be, following a workers' compensation accident.

Question 6

Matching
a. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
b. assumption of risk
c. fellow servant doctrine
d. contributory negligence
e. permanent total disability
f. compensable injuries
g. general duty clause
h. maximum medical improvement
i. employer 's size
j. OSHA requirement
The compensation award to an employee who, because of injuries, can perform no service for
which any reasonable job market exists.

Question 7

Employees are only required to report serious injuries to their employer under OSHA.

Question 8

A temporary disability occurs when a worker is still receiving medical care and has not reached
maximum medical improvement.

Question 9

The major focus of OSHA was to encourage a cooperative effort among employers, the govern-
ment, and labor unions in identifying both the causes of illnesses and injuries, and corrective
means, and to achieve OSHA compliance through provisions for inspections and penalties.

Question 10

Matching
a. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
b. assumption of risk
c. fellow servant doctrine
d. contributory negligence
e. permanent total disability
f. compensable injuries
g. general duty clause
h. maximum medical improvement
i. employer 's size
j. OSHA requirement
Maintain records of work-related injuries and illnesses and report to OSHA within eight hours
any workplace death or events resulting in hospitalization of three or more employee.

Question 11

Matching
a. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
b. assumption of risk
c. fellow servant doctrine
d. contributory negligence
e. permanent total disability
f. compensable injuries
g. general duty clause
h. maximum medical improvement
i. employer 's size
j. OSHA requirement
Injuries sustained by an employee while entering or exiting an employer 's premises.

Question 12

Matching
a. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
b. assumption of risk
c. fellow servant doctrine
d. contributory negligence
e. permanent total disability
f. compensable injuries
g. general duty clause
h. maximum medical improvement
i. employer 's size
j. OSHA requirement
The research arm of OSHA.

Question 13

Workers' compensation statutes normally limit recovery to medical expenses and a portion of
lost wages.

Question 14

Any injury that occurs at the place of employment is a compensable workers' compensation
injury.

Question 15

Matching
a. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
b. assumption of risk
c. fellow servant doctrine
d. contributory negligence
e. permanent total disability
f. compensable injuries
g. general duty clause
h. maximum medical improvement
i. employer 's size
j. OSHA requirement
An OSHA provision requiring that employer, furnish to each employee employment and a place
of employment free from recognized hazards that cause or are likely to cause death or serious
physical harm to the employee.

Question 16

Matching
a. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
b. assumption of risk
c. fellow servant doctrine
d. contributory negligence
e. permanent total disability
f. compensable injuries
g. general duty clause
h. maximum medical improvement
i. employer 's size
j. OSHA requirement
Negligent (careless) conduct by a person who was harmed by another person's negligence; a
plaintiff's failure to be careful that is a part of his or her injury when the defendant's failure to
be careful is also part of the cause.

Question 17

An individual may draw workers' compensation benefits and Social Security disability pay-
ments simultaneously.

Question 18

Matching
a. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
b. assumption of risk
c. fellow servant doctrine
d. contributory negligence
e. permanent total disability
f. compensable injuries
g. general duty clause
h. maximum medical improvement
i. employer 's size
j. OSHA requirement
Knowingly and willingly exposing yourself (or your property) to the possibility of harm.

Question 19

Workers' compensation is state-regulated.

Question 20

Matching
a. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
b. assumption of risk
c. fellow servant doctrine
d. contributory negligence
e. permanent total disability
f. compensable injuries
g. general duty clause
h. maximum medical improvement
i. employer 's size
j. OSHA requirement
One factor in determining the amount of a fine for an OSHA violation.