Deck 16: Employee Safety and Health

Question 1

Employee Assistance Programs are required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

There is evidence that EAPs are also growing in popularity in other countries and specifically in Canada,England,and China.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Stress is a mental and physical condition that results from a perceived threat of danger (physical or emotional)and the pressure to remove it.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

OSHA Form 300 requires employers to log each recordable occupational injury and illness within six working days from the time the employer learns of it.

Question 5

The tendency to be susceptible to accidents due to the employee's physical and mental makeup can be used to justify an accident.

Question 6

Individuals who are physically and psychologically strong are unlikely to experience burnout.

Question 7

Each occupational injury and illness must be recorded within 14 working days from the time the employer learns of the accident or illness.

Question 8

The Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 offers certain protection to employees infected with AIDS.

Question 9

The Occupational Safety and Health Act was passed in 1980.

Question 10

Widespread use of drugs other than alcohol is a relatively new phenomenon.

Question 11

Wellness programs are company-implemented programs designed to prevent illness and enhance employee wellness.

Question 12

A corporation has a right to be free from a search-inspection by OSHA without a court ordered search warrant.

Question 13

The most common occupational disease is heart disease.

Question 14

The Occupational Safety and Health Act applies only to employers with 1,000 or more employees.

Question 15

The Hazard Communication Standard requires that the effects of hazardous substances be evaluated and communicated to employees who may be affected by these substances.

Question 16

Substance abuse results in reduced productivity,reduced work quality,damage to property and equipment,theft,lower morale,safety violations,and poor decision making.

Question 17

OSHA represents the name of a law and the name of an agency.

Question 18

A citation is a safety award given to a company that maintains an extraordinary safety record.

Question 19

Accident prevention is the preferred approach in safety programs.

Question 20

In most organizations,safety and accident prevention receive far more attention than employee health.

Question 21

Major circumstances leading to workplace accidents stem from all of the following EXCEPT:

A)accident proneness of employees.
B)unsafe personal acts.
C)vigilance in conducting tasks.
D)unsafe conditions in the physical environment.

Question 22

_____is the mental and physical condition that results from a perceived threat of danger (physical or emotional)and the pressure to remove it.

A)Motivation
B)Morale
C)Incentive
D)Stress

Question 23

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the U.S.Department of Labor enforces the Occupational Safety and Health Act and is authorized to:

A)develop mandatory job safety and health standards and relentlessly enforce them by imposing citations,penalties,or both.
B)establish requirements for employees to keep records of injury and illness.
C)support the Consultation Programs offered by the 45 states that enforce them.
D)work in partnership with states that operate their own occupational safety and health programs.

Question 24

OSHA Form 300:

A)requires employers to log each recordable occupational injury and illness within six working days from the time the employer learns of it.
B)was designed to make it easier to post and calculate incident rates.
C)requires much more detail about each injury or illness than any other record-keeping forms.
D)must be retained for three years by the organization and must be available for inspection.

Question 25

Which of the following is a fact regarding burnout?

A)Burnout is a myth,and not a real condition.
B)As long as people really enjoy their work,they can work as long and hard as they want and never experience burnout.
C)Most people do not realize that burnout is occurring until it reaches its later stages.
D)Job burnout is always job-related.

Question 26

Which of the following will happen during an OSHA inspection?

A)Upon the OSHA inspector's arrival,the representatives of the employees should first ask to see the inspector's OSHA credentials.
B)Normally the inspector conducts a preliminary meeting with the employees of the organization.
C)The employer has the responsibility of selecting the employee representative.
D)The inspector usually requests an employer representative,often someone from the human resource department.

Question 27

An OSHA clause covering nonspecified situations consistent with the act's intent is termed the:

A)general-duty clause.
B)intentional clause.
C)all-purpose clause.
D)omnibus clause.

Question 28

OSHA conducts inspections under all of the following conditions EXCEPT:

A)referrals from other parties.
B)regular inspections among industries with few hazards or injuries.
C)conditions of imminent danger or reasonable certainty of danger.
D)catastrophes including a death or several hospitalizations among employees.

Question 29

Which of the following statements is true with regard to the common sources and suggested causes of job-related stress?

A)The threat of job loss is due to job demands skills or abilities that the employee does not possess.
B)Conflicting expectations involve situations where the employee is uncertain or unclear about how to perform on the job.
C)The requirements of the job may unnecessarily produce pacing problems,social isolation,and so forth,leading to fear and/or responsibility.
D)Role overload occurs when the employee is incompetent at his/her job.

Question 30

During OSHA's span of operation,its impact in occupational settings has accompanied:

A)disappointing trends in fatalities but encouraging trends in injuries.
B)slight increases in occupational fatalities and injuries.
C)significant reductions in occupational fatalities and injuries.
D)encouraging trends in fatalities but disappointing trends in injuries.

Question 31

A _____ is a ratio that indicates the regularity with which disabling injuries occur.

A)severity rate
B)frequency rate
C)wellness indicator
D)hazard indicator

Question 32

Employers of _____ or more employees must meet certain record-keeping requirements specified by OSHA.

A)1
B)11
C)100
D)1,000

Question 33

Which of the following statements is true regarding accidents and safety in the workplace?

A)It has been estimated that unsafe personal acts cause as much as 65 percent of organizational accidents.
B)The severity rate indicates how frequently accidents occur in an organization.
C)Intentional neglect to wear prescribed safety equipment is a frequent cause of accidents.
D)All kinds of injuries are used in determining the severity rate.

Question 34

The _____ Act of 1976 requires the pretesting of certain new chemicals marketed for safety each year.

A)OSHA
B)Toxic Substance Control
C)Environmental Protection
D)Hazard Communication

Question 35

Training in safety is more effective when:

A)patterned according to a standard design.
B)left entirely to staff officers to run and observe.
C)current needs of employees are determined.
D)a program with flaws is restarted from scratch.

Question 36

The general-duty clause:

A)requires employers to comply with the intent of OSHA.
B)states that it is the responsibility of the federal government to provide a safe workplace.
C)states that,generally speaking,most organizations are safe.
D)covers those situations addressed by specific standards.

Question 37

What is the goal of the right-to-know rule?

A)To teach employees self-help techniques for individually reducing their own stress.
B)To identify those jobs with the highest potential for burnout.
C)To reduce the incidence of illness and injuries caused by chemicals.
D)To train supervisors to detect and refer problem employees for testing.

Question 38

OSHA standards and amendments are regularly published in the:

A)Federal Register.
B)Executive Order Log.
C)Bureau of the Census.
D)Congressional Record.

Question 39

Which of the following is a major type of OSHA violation that may be cited and the penalty that may be proposed for it?

A)The failure to abate prior violation carries a civil penalty of up to $7,000 for each day the violation continues beyond the prescribed abatement date.
B)The proposed penalty for a willful violation can be up to $7,000 for each violation (mandatory).
C)The proposed penalty for a serious violation can be up to $7,000 for each violation (discretionary).
D)For a repeated violation of any standard,there is a proposed penalty of up to $7,000 for each such violation.

Question 40

Bulletin boards work better in promoting safety if:

A)consisting largely of pictures or related graphics.
B)consisting mainly of detailed text instructions.
C)left unchanged for as long as possible.
D)placed in a single location at the firm.

Question 41

Which of the following is characteristic of employee assistance programs?

A)A growing number of large organizations and many smaller ones are attempting to help employees with problems,this help being purely altruistic.
B)The accepted viewpoint now is that employees' personal problems are private until they begin affecting job performance.
C)Easy to measure,and a very real cost associated with troubled employees,is the loss of business and a damaged public image.
D)Organizations attempt to avoid employees' problems that are not job related.

Question 42

Explain organizational safety programs.

Question 43

Which of the following guidelines is suggested for implementing a drug-testing program?

A)Assume employees are drug-free until proven otherwise.
B)Use any type of urinalysis,even the most mediocre method,as long as it gets done.
C)Make positive test scores a BFOQ where possible.
D)Use monitored laboratories that employ nonblind testing to ensure the integrity of the testing procedures.

Question 44

Discuss the Hazard Communication Standard.

Question 45

A possible remedy for burnout related to high pressure jobs includes:

A)training the jobholders.
B)giving constant sabbaticals.
C)protracting work schedules.
D)enlarging the job.

Question 46

What are some specific steps an organization can do to reduce the chance of violence in the workplace?

Question 47

Many organizations are attempting to help employees with a variety of personal problems which run the gamut form drug abuse to family and personal problems,to psychiatric problems.Help is most often offered in the form of:

A)incentive programs.
B)employee assistance programs.
C)personal problem intervention.
D)outplacement programs.

Question 48

Which of the following statements is true about alcoholism?

A)Today alcoholics are viewed as people lacking self-control and morals.
B)Many organizations have established in-house alcoholic treatment programs.
C)For years,people viewed alcoholism as a disease with no single cause.
D)Alcoholism tends to strike particular groups.

Question 49

Distinguish between the frequency rate and severity rate as related to OSHA.

Question 50

A 2004 American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)survey revealed that when the majority of employers experienced an incident of workplace violence:

A)it led to substantial changes in their violence policy.
B)they did not consider it to be troublesome.
C)statistics showed that it signified a declining trend of such occurrences.
D)they did not change their violence program as a result.

Question 51

Discuss burnout and recommend steps that an organization can take to combat burnout.

Question 52

Violent workplace incidents may be minimized by:

A)screening out potential employees whose histories show antipathy to violence.
B)enlisting the aid of professionals,disregarding the cost.
C)suspending consequences for an employee's first and second offenses.
D)adopting a "zero tolerance" policy as part of a plan for preventing violence.

Question 53

Which of the following statements about AIDS is true?

A)The Americans with Disabilities Act protects employees with AIDS in the private sector who are employed by employers with greater than 15 employees.
B)Most AIDS victims do not work after symptoms appear.
C)The Vocational Rehabilitation Act protects those employees with AIDS working for an employer who is a government contractor.
D)The Vocational Rehabilitation Act prevents employers from terminating an employee who can no longer perform his/her job,provided the employer made reasonable accommodations.

Question 54

Which of the following is considered a myth about burnout?

A)Behavior akin to burnout has been around for centuries.
B)Any work including frustration,conflict,and pressure can lead to burnout.
C)As long as people really enjoy their work they never experience burnout.
D)Burnout results from a combination of factors.

Question 55

Discuss what work/life programs and wellness programs are.

Question 56

Discuss stress and the problems caused by excessive stress.What can organizations do to combat stress in the workplace?

Question 57

List the guidelines for implementing a drug-testing program.

Question 58

Describe Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs).

Question 59

Which of the following is true about alcoholism and drug abuse?

A)Substance abusers are no more likely than other employees to have reduced productivity.
B)Most employees who use drugs are young.
C)Alcoholism primarily strikes blue-collar workers.
D)Historically,organizations have undertaken widespread efforts to reduce employee alcoholism.

Question 60

Discuss the purpose of OSHA.