Health & Safety Flashcards
Workers’ Compensation benefits must be provided:
Regardless of who is at fault in an accident. A system of mandatory, no-fault business insurance that provides wage replacement and medical coverage to workers who become injured or ill in the course of doing their jobs.
According to the Bureau of Labor Standards Statistics, what causes more than 50 percent of all occupational illnesses today?
Cumulative Trauma Disorder (CTD)
Workers’ Compensation fraud
a. A dockworker collecting Workers’ Compensation while working as a real estate agent
b. Reporting a shoulder injury as a Workers’ Comp injury on Monday morning after a Saturday game of recreational softball.
c. HR pays workers as independent contractors to exclude them from the payroll reported to their work comp carrier.
Not Worker Comp Fraud
Pursuant to section 4601 of the Labor Code, and notwithstanding the 30 day time period specified in subdivision (c), the employee may request a one time change of physician at any time. (Employee’s Request for Change of Physician. (a) This section shall not apply to self-insured and insured employers who offer a Medical Provider Network pursuant to section 4616 of the Labor Code. )
An employee who is a victim of domestic violence who may have to take time off to obtain a restraining order or take other legal measures to protect themselves or their children are protected at work from what adverse employment actions?
Termination, discrimination, or retaliation
All of these types of work that an employee may return to after a workers’ compensation injury.
a. Regular Work
b. Modified Work
c. Alternative Work
An IIPP must include a system for communicating with employees that meets what criteria?
Readily understandable by all affected employees.
An incident that results in a fatality requires an employer to contact Cal/OSHA by when?
8 hours
An effective IIPP includes training for which two groups?
Supervisors and employees
Californias No Smoking Law is generally intended to do which of the following:
The California No Smoking Law, passed in 19984, was later extended to ban smoking in virtually every indoor workplace, including bars, restaurants, taverns and gaming clubs.
Cal/OSHA requires that employers do which of the following?
Provide employees access to their medical records.
From an occupational safety and health standpoint, a good accident investigation ultimately answers all of which list of questions that follow?
What happened? Where did it happen? When did it happen? How did it happen? Why did it happen? What should be done to prevent or minimize such an incident in the future? What action is needed?
How soon must California employers report work-related fatalities and serious injuries or illnesses?
Within 8 hours.
In a major disaster, which is likely to be the lead California state agency for emergency information?
Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (OES)
In California, when must a employer implement an ergonomic program?
When at least two employees performing identical tasks have been diagnosed by a physician with repetitive motion injuries (RMIs) within 12 consecutive months.
OSHA allows states like CA to administer thier own safety law if.
State standards are at least as effective as the Fed/OSHA standards.
Proposition 65 signs address which of the following?
Potential health risks related to cancer or reproductive harm.
The California Corporate Criminal Liability Act of 1989 does which of the following:
The Corporate Criminal Liability Act of 1989, commonly referred to as “BE a Manager Go to Jail Act,” subjects individual managers as well as corporations and limited liability corporations (LLC) to criminal liability for failing to disclose concealed hazards. Provides for criminal penalties when an employer fails to disclose a serious concealed hazard.