Deck 30: TSM: Safety Management in a Total Quality Setting

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT a way that TSM differs from traditional safety and health management?

A)Teamwork oriented
B)Strategically based
C)Concerned with OSHA standards
D)Performance and process oriented

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The need for TSM is firmly rooted in the pressures of:

A)The global marketplace
B)Federal legislation
C)NIOSH
D)OSHA

Answer 2

A

Question 3

One of the main problems safety professionals sometimes face that QM can solve is:

A)Unity of purpose
B)Isolation
C)Continual improvement of processes
D)Customer focus

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT one of the ways QM achieves its purpose?

A)Unity of purpose
B)Education and training
C)Micromanagement
D)Freedom through control

Question 5

TSM is an approach to safety and health management that involves all personnel in establishing, maintaining, and continually improving the work environment.

Question 6

There is no connection between TSM and job performance.

Question 7

Quality management is an approach to doing business that maximizes the competitiveness of an organization.

Question 8

The only concern of TSM is improving the bottom line.

Question 9

The model for TSM has four components: plan, do check, adjust.

Question 10

A safe and healthy workplace promotes peak performance and continual improvement.

Question 11

TSM makes safety everybody's business rather than limiting responsibility to safety professionals.

Question 12

TSM is strategically-based and performance oriented.

Question 13

In a QM setting, what body oversees the organization's safety and health program?

A)Higher management
B)Supervisors
C)TSM facilitator
D)TSM steering committee

Question 14

It is important for safety professionals to be able to function effectively in a total quality setting.

Question 15

Execution is a key phase in the implementation of TSM.

Question 16

Lean/Six Sigma can actually create safety problems in some cases.