Occupational Health and Safety Midterm

True or False To be in compliance with OSHA regulations, Employers with 11 or more employees must maintain records of occupational illness and injuries.

True

True or False With some few exceptions, the vast majority of employers are required to participate in workers' compensation programs, which usually means purchasing workers' compensation insurance.

True

The goal of a workers' compensation program is to compensate the worker for the time off and the medical care needed for recovery after an injury, and then:

get them back to work when they are able

True or False Workers' compensation is designed to be an 'at-fault payer' system, which means one party, the worker or the employer, must be assigned blame for an injury before it is decided who pays for that injury.

False

True or False The OSH Act regulates employers, defined as any person engaged in a business affecting commerce who has employees, but does not include the United States or any State or political subdivision of a State.

False

According to Bird and Loftus's Domino Theory of Accident Causation, basic causes of accidents include:

-personal such as lack of knowledge, skill, or motivation -job factors such as inadequate work standards, equipment, or maintenance

An unplanned event, often resulting in injuries or damage that interrupt routine operations is a:

Accident

A workplace condition or action that has the potential to result in injury, illness, property damage, or interruption of a process or activity is a:

Hazard

In 1936, the Walsh-Healy Act was created which banned:

Hazardous working conditions government contract work

Regulatory standards that are broadly applicable to everyone, are known as:

Horizontal standards

A program to minimize incident-based financial losses when they occur is what type of program?

Loss control

A program designed to identify and correct potential accident problems before they result in financial loss or injury is what type of program?

Loss prevention

The research arm of OSHA, which is a division of the Centers for Disease Control is:

NIOSH

This federal law was enacted in 1970, which created OSHA for the purpose of enforcing occupational health and safety regulations:

OSH Act

The estimate of the probability and severity of an adverse event occurring is:

Risk

Operating within an acceptable or low probability of risk associated with conditions or activities having the potential to cause harm to people, equipment, facilities, or the enterprise is:

Safety

The OSHA regulation that states, "Each employer shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which is free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees" is known as the:

The General Duty Clause

OSHA regulations can be found in:

Title 29, the Code of Federal Regulations

A lawsuit that results from an act or negligence that results in injury is called a:

Tort claim

Regulatory standards that are specific to a particular industry or type of operation are:

Vertical standards

The first successful workers compensation program in the U.S. started in:

Wisconsin 1911

The probability and severity of a loss event is:

a risk

A loss-producing, unintended event is:

an accident

An unintended event possibly not causing a loss is:

an incident

Which of the following is not an injury that requires recording in an OSHA log:

and injury that does not require first aid

Risks for loss with no potential gain are what kind of exposure?

pure loss exposure