Deck 5: Workplace Safety

Question 1

Workplace safety standards can:

A) Cost money to comply with.
B) Interfere with day-to-day work.
C) Carry heavy financial penalties if violated.
D) Not really protect anyone.

Answer 1

Carry heavy financial penalties if violated.

Question 2

Exposure to bloodborne pathogens is:

A) Preventable with the right precautions.
B) An accepted part of working in health care.
C) Rarely a concern.
D) No concern at all.

Answer 2

Preventable with the right precautions.

Question 3

Proper air exchange is important to avoid:

A) High utilities bills.
B) Sick building syndrome.
C) Stuffiness in the building.
D) Extreme temperatures within the building.

Answer 3

Sick building syndrome.

Question 4

Actions to prevent workplace violence include:

A) Providing keys to all staff.
B) Ensuring well-lit stairwells and parking lots.
C) Using skeleton crews, so staff members all work alone.
D) Informing staff they are responsible for themselves.

Question 5

Healthier workers means :

A) Increased health insurance premiums.
B) Lower health insurance premiums.
C) An increase in paid overtime.
D) A decrease in productivity.

Question 6

The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics calculated that the average total compensated cost for sick pay is:

A) 10¢ per work hour.
B) 23¢ per work hour.
C) 51¢ per work hour.
D) $1.00 per work hour.

Question 7

According to NIOSH, violent acts, including physical assaults and threats of assaults, directed toward persons at work or on duty are known as:

A) Occupational hazards.
B) Workplace violence.
C) High-incidence occupational locations.
D) Occupational dangers.

Question 8

Another way to prevent workplace infection of hepatitis B virus is to ensure all staff members are:

A) Always wearing face masks.
B) Vaccinated.
C) Scrubbed with antibacterial soap.
D) Lathered with hand sanitizer.

Question 9

Implementing a "Workplace Violence Prevention Program" would include:

A) Coordinating with local law enforcement.
B) Assuming all doors lock properly.
C) Focusing only on the inside of the facility.
D) Providing all staff members with guns.

Question 10

A sharps-related injury-prevention plan should include:

A) Telling staff members to be careful.
B) Having patients give themselves injections.
C) Having many bandages nearby.
D) Using shielded needle devices.

Question 11

Wellness programs sponsored by the administration of any size organization is in the best interests of:

A) The employee.
B) The patient.
C) The organization.
D) All of the above.

Question 12

Photo identification badges can help ensure:

A) Employees are not late to work.
B) Everyone appears to be official.
C) The facility is not liable.
D) Only authorized individuals can gain access to the facility.

Question 13

HVAC stands for:

A) Housekeeping Vacuuming and Cleaning.
B) Health in Vocational Area Conditions.
C) Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning.
D) Hospital Vaccination and Control.

Question 14

OSHA has identified health care as a:

A) Low-incidence industry.
B) Safe and secure environment.
C) High-incidence industry.
D) No danger zone workplace.

Question 15

OSHA classifies workplace violence perpetrators into four groups. A nurse's husband came in and attacked her. He would fit into which of the following groups?

A) Criminal intent
B) Co-worker
C) Personal
D) Patient/client/customer

Question 16

Housekeeping employees can be in danger of contamination from:

A) Laundry.
B) EPA-approved disinfectants.
C) Vacuum cleaners.
D) Special hazardous waste-disposal systems.

Question 17

In addition to clinicians, employees working in which of the following departments are also at high risk for workplace infection?

A) Parking lot attendants
B) Housekeeping
C) Medical billing and coding staff
D) All of the above

Question 18

Because prevention plans cannot prevent all accidents, you must also ensure that staff members are trained to use:

A) A referral to an infectious disease physician.
B) An antidote.
C) Specific protocols after an exposure occurs.
D) A paid day off.

Question 19

Mandatory training of staff should include:

A) How to disarm the perpetrator.
B) Hand-to-hand combat training.
C) Ways to avoid or diminish potential violent encounters.
D) Minding your own business.

Question 20

Occupational exposure to HIV-infected blood can occur by:

A) Needlestick accident.
B) Splash into the eye, nose, or mouth.
C) Contact with open wound in the skin.
D) All of these.

Question 21

Wellness programs for staff members are:

A) Part of a smart strategic plan.
B) A waste of money.
C) Just a fad.
D) A waste of staff member time.

Question 22

A Workplace Safety Plan should have ________ main sections.

A) three
B) five
C) seven
D) ten

Question 23

OSHA oversees protections for your staff members against workplace violence and:

A) Salary rates.
B) Equal Opportunity Employment issues.
C) Workplace illness and injury.
D) Workplace discrimination.

Question 24

Health care facilities have a financial and moral obligation to:

A) Pick and choose safety issues with which to comply.
B) Keep patients safe.
C) Keep staff and patients safe.
D) Avoid lawsuits.

Question 25

To ensure safety in the workplace, an administrator should make certain always to:

A) Pay overtime.
B) Repair any broken locks immediately.
C) Hire people who can take care of themselves.
D) Promote diversification.