Deck 4: Roles and Professional Certifications for Safety and Health Professionals

Question 1

The skills needed by safety professionals are changing as the world gets flatter.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Engineers can make a significant contribution to safety.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The job description of the safety and health manager is simple.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The design process includes all the following steps except which of the following?

A) Synthesis
B) Problem identification
C) Cost
D) Analysis and evaluation

Question 5

Professional certification is an excellent way to establish one's status in the field of safety and health.

Question 6

Which of the following factors contributes most to changing the role of the safety professional?

A) Global competition becoming more intense
B) Changing OSHA standards
C) Changing NIOSH standards
D) None of the above

Question 7

Professional certification is an excellent way to establish credentials in the safety, health, and environmental management profession.

Question 8

In some companies the safety and health manager might be a person who has other duties.

Question 9

Colleges across the country have responded to the need for formal education for safety and health managers.

Question 10

Which of the following is the professional field that is concerned with motion and the processes whereby other energy forms are converted into motion?

A) Electrical engineering
B) Mechanical engineering
C) Aerospace engineering
D) Nuclear engineering

Question 11

The National Safety Council is a professional agency that focuses on safety and health issues.

Question 12

Productivity, quality, cost, and response time are which of the following?

A) Key to productivity
B) Indirect labor
C) Image and service
D) Education and training

Question 13

The most important member of the safety and health team is the health nurse.

Question 14

There are signs that engineering schools are becoming less sensitive to safety and health issues.

Question 15

There are only a few agencies and organizations that provide updated training for safety and health managers.

Question 16

Which of the following is the most likely candidate to work as safety engineers?

A) Industrial engineers
B) Chemical engineers
C) Mechanical engineers
D) Electrical engineers

Question 17

The safety and health manager must understand the bottom line concerns of all of the following except:

A) Management
B) Supervisor
C) Employees
D) Vendors