Exam 15: Safety, Health, and Employee Assistance Programs

Although feedback and incentives have a positive impact on the motivation of employees to improve productivity,they have little effect on improving safe behavior.

The most dangerous occupations are:

Write a short note on employee assistance programs.

Discuss the three government agencies to administer and enforce the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

The Supreme Court has ruled that,under certain circumstances,walkouts in unionized firms due to unsafe working conditions are legal during the term of valid collective bargaining agreements that contain no-strike and grievance and/or arbitration clauses.

Discuss the impact of OSHA.

Considerable emphasis has been given to OSHA's role of _____,but not much to its role of consultation.

_____ is a combination of strategies developed to reduce the costs of chronic conditions that require significant changes in behavior.

What are the four components of a loss control program?

Public policy has focused on two types of action,monetary compensation for job related injuries,and preventative measures to enhance job safety and health.

Which act protects rehabilitated alcohol and drug abusers from discrimination in employment?

Modern EAPs are comprehensive management tools that address behavioral risks in the workplace by extending professional counseling and medical service to all troubled employees.

OSHA assigns top priority to reports of:

_____ programs are onsite and hire their own professionals to work in the program.

Experts estimate that alcoholism afflicts at least 50 percent of senior executives.

The role of the safety committee is to:

_____ attempt to eliminate unsafe work conditions and to neutralize unsafe worker behaviors.

Supervisors need to learn about and look for signs of substance abuse on the job because it relates strongly to the incidence of work injuries.

Employers can appeal citations,proposed penalties,and corrections they have been ordered to make through multiple levels of the agency,culminating with the:

In the United States,the number of workers dying on the job each day has been increasing steadily over the past 10 years.