Exam 11: Laws Affecting Workplace Health and Safety

An employee receiving workers' compensation benefits is barred from bringing a common law suit against the employer for a work-related injury because of the:

Increasingly, injured employees are bringing actions in the courts instead of filing claims under workers' compensation statutes.

Bionomics is the science of adapting the job to the biomechanical needs of the worker.

OSHA Form _____ provides a log for recording and reporting injuries and illnesses with a separate line entry for each recordable injury or illness.

The federal agencies created by the OSH Act belong to which federal department?

The OSHRC is not completely independent from OSHA.

Workers' compensation laws preclude employees from suing for injuries intentionally inflicted by employers.

In which state was one of the earliest attempts to regulate hazardous workplace conditions?

The exclusivity principle would apply to a situation where an employer told his employee to ignore a safety procedure, and in doing so the employee was injured.

In this defense, the employer must be able to demonstrate that the employee was aware of, or should have been aware of, the hazards pertaining to a particular job.

Which of the following agencies reports to the Department of Health and Human Services?

According to the text, which of the following is not among the safety and health issues that have received increasing attention in the popular media?

A covered employer under the OSH Act is one that employs ___ or more employees.

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most nonagricultural workers were:

An independent craftsman is expected to assume all personal financial consequences of a workplace injury.

Which "off duty" scenario is most likely to qualify the employee for workers' compensation?

The intent of the __________ is to make the employer ultimately responsible for unforeseen or newly created workplace hazards.

Provide four (4) citations for OSHA violations in the workplace.What is the maximum penalty if an employer has been warned of an unsafe condition and a death has resulted from his or her failure to correct it?

__________ is the science of adapting the job to the biomechanical needs of the worker.

In the event that employers believe OSHA has developed and implemented an unrealistic standard, that standard may be challenged in: