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Question 1

An organization of professional personnel in governmental agencies or educational institutions who are employed in occupational safety and health programs.

Answer 1

AMERICAN CONGRESS OF GOVERNMENTAL INDUSTRIAL HYGIENISTS aka ACGIH

Question 2

(1718-1783) An influential person in medical embalming who is acknowledged as the first person to successfully adopt a method of arterial injection to preserve [Scottish]

Answer 2

HUNTER, DR WILLIAM

Question 3

A governmental agency with environmental protection regulatory and enforcement authority.

Answer 3

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY aka EPA

Question 3

OSHA regulation that deals with identifying and limiting exposure to occupational hazards.

Answer 3

HAZARD COMMUNICATION STANDARD /RULE

Question 4

(1728-1793) An influential person in medical embalming for whom Hunter’s Canal is named [Scottish]

Answer 4

HUNTER, JOHN

Question 4

The person who has the legal right/custody of the body and can choose whatever type of final disposition.

Answer 4

PRIMARY RIGHT OF DISPOSITION aka PRD

Question 5

(1578-1657) An influential person in medical embalming who discovered the circulation of blood in 1628 [British]

Answer 5

HARVEY, DR WILLIAM

Question 5

(1665-1717) An influential person in medical embalming who is known as the “Father of Embalming.” [Dutch]

Answer 5

RUYSCH, FREDERICK

Question 5

Legal limits established by OSHA to which workers can be exposed continuously for a short period of time without damage or injury exposures at the STEL should not be for more than 15 minutes and not repeated more than 4 times per work day.

Answer 5

SHORT TERM EXPOSURE LIMIT aka STEL

Question 6

a government agency in the Department of Labor to maintain a safe and healthy work environment

Answer 6

OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Question 9

(1791-1882) An influential person in medical embalming who was the first to make embalming available to the public and who also wrote the first embalming text (first printing in French) [French]

Answer 9

GANNAL, JEAN

Question 11

(1828-1866) One of the discoverers of formaldehyde [Russian]

Answer 11

BUTLEROV, ALEXANDER M

Question 12

OSHA regulation limiting the amount of occupation exposure to formaldehyde gas.

Answer 12

FORMALDEHYDE RULE

Question 12

the amount of a poison (or radiation) that will kill 50% of the group to which it has been administered.

Answer 12

LETHAL DOSE 50% (LD50)

Question 13

Reasonably anticipated skin, eye, mucous membrane, or parenteral, contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials that may result from the performance of a worker’s duties.

Answer 13

OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE

Question 14

International Agency for Research on Cancer

Answer 14

IARC

Question 16

Tests and certifies respiratory protective devices and air sampling detector tubes, recommends occupational exposure limits for various substances, and assists OSHA inoccupational safety and health investigations and research.

Answer 16

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH NIOSH

Question 17

National Toxicology Program

Answer 17

NTP

Question 18

(1817-1900) An influential person in medical embalming who is regarded as the “Father of Modern Embalming,” and “Father of Embalming in the United States.” [American]

Answer 18

HOLMES, DR. THOMAS

Question 19

A major agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, concerned with all phases of control of communicable, vector-borne, and occupational diseases.

Answer 19

CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION/CDCP aka CDC

Question 20

Agency of federal government created in 1914 to promote free and fair competition by prevention of trade restraints, price fixing, false advertising and other unfair methods of competition

Answer 20

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION aka FTC

Question 21

The smallest dose of a poison (or radiation) on record that produces death.

Answer 21

MINIMUM LETHAL DOSE (MLD)

Question 22

An official of a local community who holds inquests concerning sudden, violent, and unexplained deaths.

Answer 22

CORONER

Question 23

A specific eye, mouth, other mucous membrane, non-intact skin, or parenteral, contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials that results from the performance of an employee’s duties.

Answer 23

EXPOSURE INCIDENT

Question 25

(Late 17th C.) An influential person in medical embalming who published a book about a method of embalming without evisceration [German]

Answer 25

CLAUDERUS, GABRIAL

Question 26

(1632-1723) “Father of Bacteriology.” He made his own microscopes which were superior to any of that time He gave the first complete account of the red blood cell He demonstrated the capillary connections between arteries and veins “Father of Microbiology.” [Dutch]

Answer 26

VAN LEEUWENHOEK, ANTHONY

Question 27

OSHA REGULATION (29CFR 1910-1030) regulating the employee’s exposure to blood and other body fluids OSHA DEFINITIONS: Blood Human blood, human blood components, and products made from human blood.

Answer 27

BLOODBORNE PATHOGEN RULE

Question 28

An evaluation of exposures that are time-weighted over an established period It allows the exposure levels to be averaged generally over an eight-hour time period.

Answer 28

TIME-WEIGHED AVERAGE /TWA

Question 29

These levels are established to ensure adequate protection of employees at exposures below the OSHA limits, but to minimize the compliance burdens for employers whose employees have exposures below the 8 hour permissible exposure limit (PEL) The AL for formaldehyde is 0.5 ppm.

Answer 29

ACTION LEVEL / AL-EXPOSURE LIMITS

Question 30

Procedures that isolate or remove the bloodborne pathogen hazard from the workplace such as sharps disposal container, self-sheathing needles.

Answer 30

ENGINEERING CONTROLS

Question 31

(1452-1519) Italian sculptor and painter produced anatomical plates; injected the arterial system for preservation of anatomical specimens.

Answer 31

DA VINCI, LEONARDO

Question 32

The supervisor, in an institution licensed to use radionuclides, that has the responsibility to establish procedures and make recommendations in the use of all radioactive matter.

Answer 32

RADIATION PROTECTION OFFICER

Question 33

The maximum legal limits established by osha for regulated substances these are based on employee exposure that are time-weighted over an eight-hour work shift. When these limits are exceeded, employers must take proper steps to reduce employee exposure For formaldehyde, the PEL is .75 ppm.

Answer 33

PERMISSIBLE EXPOSURE LIMIT aka PEL

Question 34

An approach to infection control According to the concept of Universal Precautions, all.human blood and certain human body fluids are treated as if known to be infectious.

Answer 34

UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS

Question 35

(1796-1843) An influential person in medical embalming who translated Gannal’s text into English and promoted embalming for sanitary purposes [American]

Answer 35

HARLAN, RICHARD

Question 36

(1628-1694) An influential person in medical embalming who was the first to note capillary circulation and was later known as the “Father of Microscopic Anatomy.” “Father of Histology.” [Italian]

Answer 36

MALPIGHI, MARCELLO