Chapter 13

Question 1

Protection of employees from injuries caused by work-related accidents

Answer 1

Safety

Question 2

Employee’s freedom from physical or emotional illness.

Answer 2

Health

Question 3

As used by OSHA, employers are required to furnish, to each
employee, a place of employment that is free from recognizable hazards that are causing,
or likely to cause, death or serious physical harm to the employee

Answer 3

General duty clause

Question 4

Multistep process designed to study and analyze a task or job and
then break down that task into steps that provide a means of eliminating associated
hazards.

Answer 4

Job hazard analysis

Question 5

Conditions that affect the body’s muscles, joints,

tendons, ligaments, and nerves.

Answer 5

Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs)

Question 6

Caused by pressure on the median nerve that occurs

because of a narrowing of the passageway that houses the nerve.

Answer 6

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS)

Question 7

Process of designing the workplace to support the capabilities of people
and job or task demands

Answer 7

Ergonomics

Question 8

Acts of continual hostile conduct that deliberately hurt another
person emotionally, verbally, or physically.

Answer 8

Workplace bullying:

Question 9

Physical assault, threatening behavior, verbal abuse, hostility, or
harassment directed toward employees at work or on duty.

Answer 9

Workplace violence

Question 10

: Liability an employer may incur when a company keeps persons on
the payroll whose records indicate a strong potential for wrongdoing and fails to take
steps to defuse a possibly violent situation.

Answer 10

Negligent retention

Question 11

Body’s nonspecific reaction to any demand made on it.

Answer 11

Stress

Question 12

Incapacitating condition in which individuals lose a sense of the basic purpose
and fulfillment of their work.

Answer 12

Burnout

Question 13

Use of illegal substances or the misuse of controlled substances such
as alcohol and drugs.

Answer 13

Substance abuse

Question 14

Medical disease characterized by uncontrolled and compulsive drinking that
interferes with normal living patterns.

Answer 14

Alcoholism

Question 15

Designed to promote the mental and physical well-being of

employees and family members.

Answer 15

Wellness programs

Question 16

Comprehensive approach that many
organizations have taken to deal with burnout, alcohol and drug abuse, and other
emotional disturbances.

Answer 16

Employee assistance program (EAP)

Question 17

Requires businesses to communicate more openly about the hazards
associated with the materials they use and produce and the wastes they
generate

Answer 17

Superfund Amendments Reauthorization Act (SARA), Title III

Question 18

Perhaps the best indicator of a

successful safety program is a…

Answer 18

Reduction in the injury frequency rate

Question 19

Has potential to be more dangerous because the roof of the mine has the potential to fall down

Answer 19

Long wall method of coal getting

Question 20

Name five of the most stressful jobs

Answer 20

Miner
Painter
Farm owner
Manager
Secretary

Question 21

What is your question and answer

Answer 21

Where is the easiest place to find a victim of domestic violence?
At his/her workplace