Deck 12: Ensuring Health and Safety in the Workplace

Question 1

Marshall was concerned about recent events at his workplace. He noticed that stress levels were increasing amongst staff, and several employees had been screaming and yelling at their fellow co-workers. Most recently, he also had caught employees throwing pens and other office objects at their co-workers in anger. As the manager of the Human Resource Department, he considered his options to intervene.

-One possible solution to the problem of workplace stress at Marshall's organization are

A)curative measures
B)punitive measures
C)containment measures
D)analytical measures
E)stress measures

Answer 1

curative measures

Question 2

Calli Bergman contemplated her role in her new job as Health and Safety Officer at EliteTuna Co., a tuna harvesting and packaging operation on the East Coast of Canada. She thought about how the accepted level of workplace health and safety risks had evolved over time. As a result, she was very glad to be working in the current day, where a shared responsibility model and perspective was in place and enforced. As she thought about her exciting new responsibilities, she also realized that it was a very important and responsible role for the organization. She knew she would need to plan her "next steps" very carefully to ensure that she fulfilled the responsibilities of the position quickly.

-When thinking about performing a health and safety audit,Calli decided that it was also important to get an understanding of stress experienced by employees at EliteTuna Co.For this reason,she decided to also conduct a stress audit.In order to do so,she created a survey where she asked all of the following questions EXCEPT

A)Do any individuals demonstrate physiological symptoms?
B)Is job satisfaction high or is job tension,turnover,absenteeism,strikes,or accident proneness high?
C)Does the organization's design contribute to the symptoms described?
D)Do interpersonal relations contribute to the symptoms described?
E)Do career-development variables contribute to the symptoms described?

Answer 2

Is job satisfaction high or is job tension,turnover,absenteeism,strikes,or accident proneness high?

Question 3

Calli Bergman contemplated her role in her new job as Health and Safety Officer at EliteTuna Co., a tuna harvesting and packaging operation on the East Coast of Canada. She thought about how the accepted level of workplace health and safety risks had evolved over time. As a result, she was very glad to be working in the current day, where a shared responsibility model and perspective was in place and enforced. As she thought about her exciting new responsibilities, she also realized that it was a very important and responsible role for the organization. She knew she would need to plan her "next steps" very carefully to ensure that she fulfilled the responsibilities of the position quickly.

-In her stress audit,Calli was particularly concerned about finding employees with a condition of mental,emotional,and even physical exhaustion that results in substantial and prolonged stress,as this is

A)real stress
B)burnout
C)workplace stress
D)pro forma stress
E)creative stress

Answer 3

burnout

Question 4

Calli Bergman contemplated her role in her new job as Health and Safety Officer at EliteTuna Co., a tuna harvesting and packaging operation on the East Coast of Canada. She thought about how the accepted level of workplace health and safety risks had evolved over time. As a result, she was very glad to be working in the current day, where a shared responsibility model and perspective was in place and enforced. As she thought about her exciting new responsibilities, she also realized that it was a very important and responsible role for the organization. She knew she would need to plan her "next steps" very carefully to ensure that she fulfilled the responsibilities of the position quickly.

-Calli quickly realizes that she needs to implement a Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee in her workplace,as it is

A)a key element in both federal and provincial labour legislation
B)recommended by most Worker's Compensation Boards as an alternative to formal labour hearings
C)suggested by provincial labour legislation as one means of handling labour disputes
D)is not usually required in any workplace with 200 or less employees
E)is responsible for handling compensation payouts

Question 5

Calli Bergman contemplated her role in her new job as Health and Safety Officer at EliteTuna Co., a tuna harvesting and packaging operation on the East Coast of Canada. She thought about how the accepted level of workplace health and safety risks had evolved over time. As a result, she was very glad to be working in the current day, where a shared responsibility model and perspective was in place and enforced. As she thought about her exciting new responsibilities, she also realized that it was a very important and responsible role for the organization. She knew she would need to plan her "next steps" very carefully to ensure that she fulfilled the responsibilities of the position quickly.

-In her preparation for her new role,Calli learned about some of the key changes that have evolved into new thinking regarding workplace health and safety.These included all of the following EXCEPT

A)Workers' Compensation costs have made employees become more safety conscious
B)accident rates can be reduced through the co-operation of the employer and their employees
C)unions are exerting more pressure on the safety of their workers
D)governments both federally and provincially have passed more comprehensive health and safety legislation
E)Regular consultation occurs between employers and workers through health and safety committees

Question 6

Calli Bergman contemplated her role in her new job as Health and Safety Officer at EliteTuna Co., a tuna harvesting and packaging operation on the East Coast of Canada. She thought about how the accepted level of workplace health and safety risks had evolved over time. As a result, she was very glad to be working in the current day, where a shared responsibility model and perspective was in place and enforced. As she thought about her exciting new responsibilities, she also realized that it was a very important and responsible role for the organization. She knew she would need to plan her "next steps" very carefully to ensure that she fulfilled the responsibilities of the position quickly.

-In her contemplation,Calli Bergman was thinking about one of the early approaches to workplace safety,that worked on the assumption that accidents were almost always the result of individual worker actions or the failure of workers to protect themselves.This was referred to as

A)assumption of risk
B)the careless worker model
C)the inattentive worker model
D)the shared responsibility model
E)the tough luck rule

Question 7

Marshall was concerned about recent events at his workplace.He noticed that stress levels were increasing amongst staff,and several employees had been screaming and yelling at their fellow co-workers.Most recently,he also had caught employees throwing pens and other office objects at their co-workers in anger.As the manager of the Human Resource Department,he considered his options to intervene.
The most common incidences,classified as workplace violence,are

A)pushing or shoving
B)fist-fighting
C)verbal threats
D)robbery
E)stalking

Question 8

Calli Bergman contemplated her role in her new job as Health and Safety Officer at EliteTuna Co., a tuna harvesting and packaging operation on the East Coast of Canada. She thought about how the accepted level of workplace health and safety risks had evolved over time. As a result, she was very glad to be working in the current day, where a shared responsibility model and perspective was in place and enforced. As she thought about her exciting new responsibilities, she also realized that it was a very important and responsible role for the organization. She knew she would need to plan her "next steps" very carefully to ensure that she fulfilled the responsibilities of the position quickly.

-One of the first tasks Calli decided was important for her to pursue was a health and safety audit.This would include all of the following steps EXCEPT

A)review of training records and manuals
B)interviews of front line employees
C)tour of the workplace
D)review of monthly financial statements
E)surveys of supervisors and senior management

Question 9

Calli Bergman contemplated her role in her new job as Health and Safety Officer at EliteTuna Co., a tuna harvesting and packaging operation on the East Coast of Canada. She thought about how the accepted level of workplace health and safety risks had evolved over time. As a result, she was very glad to be working in the current day, where a shared responsibility model and perspective was in place and enforced. As she thought about her exciting new responsibilities, she also realized that it was a very important and responsible role for the organization. She knew she would need to plan her "next steps" very carefully to ensure that she fulfilled the responsibilities of the position quickly.

-Calli quickly realized that she would need to coordinate her efforts with the human resource management department at EliteTuna Co.This would include all of the following EXCEPT

A)having a control process in place to identify causes of accidents and to eliminate their recurrence
B)use the human resource department's information system to monitor for patterns of accidents or health problems
C)create an effective training program for health and safety
D)continually encourage safety awareness on the part of supervisors and employees
E)overturning the decisions of the occupational health and safety committee

Question 10

Calli Bergman contemplated her role in her new job as Health and Safety Officer at EliteTuna Co., a tuna harvesting and packaging operation on the East Coast of Canada. She thought about how the accepted level of workplace health and safety risks had evolved over time. As a result, she was very glad to be working in the current day, where a shared responsibility model and perspective was in place and enforced. As she thought about her exciting new responsibilities, she also realized that it was a very important and responsible role for the organization. She knew she would need to plan her "next steps" very carefully to ensure that she fulfilled the responsibilities of the position quickly.

-Calli was particularly happy that her company decided to keep the role of Health and Safety Officer in house.Many of their competitors were outsourcing that function to firms that specialize in health and safety.Although the cost of such a consultant service ranges from $50-$100 per hour,companies

A)need to outsource the health and safety function to comply with legislation
B)often save three to five times the cost of the consulting bill from lower experience ratings alone
C)find it easier this way to punish employees for safety infractions
D)remove one incentive for employees to unionize
E)are less concerned with health and safety in the workplace