Question $14$ pts

$\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_$ can be defined as a moral thermometer of right and wrong.

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Ethics

Legality

Code of Conduct

Code of Hammurabi

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Question $24$ pts

While safety professionals can observe the workplace and provide guidance, it is often up to company management to take action of health and safety issues in the workplace.

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True

False

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Question $34$ pts

Which state was the first to pass workers' compensation legislation?

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Ohio

Illinois

Wisconsin

Arkansas

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Question $44$ pts

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the OSHAct of $1970?$

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Develop mandatory job safety and health standards and enforce them

Establish responsibilities and rights for employees and employers, maintaining records and reporting standards

Encouraged employers$/$employees to reduce workplace hazards and to implement new safety and health programs

To make sure that early miners who worked with sulfuric acid mists covered their mouth and nose with some kind of covering to protect them from the hazard.

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Question $54$ pts

When it comes to compliance with industry specific regulations, if a new regulation is published, an employer can always claim that they did not know about it$.$

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True

False

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Question $64$ pts

Under the OSHAct of $1970,$ employers are responsible for employee compliance with regulations, however, employees can still be fined for non$-$compliance.

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True

False

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Question $74$ pts

This term, which can mean different things to different people, is often defined for the professional as "operating within and acceptable or low probability of risk associated with conditions or activities having the potential to cause harm to people, equipment, facilities, or the enterprise."

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Safety

Risk

Hazard

Anticipation

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Question $84$ pts

This physician from England, was the first to connect an occupational exposure to carcinogens, coal tar and soot, to an occupation, chimney sweeps.

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Bernardo Ramazzini

Percival Pott

Sir Robert Peel

Galen

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Question $94$ pts

This important study carried out between $1907$ and $1908$ in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, showed that there were over $500$ occupational fatalities in one year.

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The Appalachia Act

The US Bureau of Mines

The Pittsburg Survey

The National Fire Protection Association

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Question $104$ pts

This Italian physician published the Diseases of Workers around $1700$ which was the first real publication on occupational disease.

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Percival Pott

Ulrich Ellenborg

Bernardo Ramazzini

Galen

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Question $114$ pts

The most common written program that most employers are required to have is the Hazard Communication $($HazCom$)$ plan.

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True

False

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Question $124$ pts

The National Institute of Safety and Health $($NIOSH$)$was created by the OSHAct and develops occupational safety and health standards for recommendation to the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of HHS$.$

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True

False

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Question $134$ pts

The General Duty Clause extends OSHA authority beyond specific requirements of the standards when a recognized hazard actually or potentially exists and is often used when no specific standard applies.

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True

False

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Question $144$ pts

Some of the problems facing workers regarding federal or state protections at work are:

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All of these answers are correct

Many of the occupational heatlh and safety agencies, both OSHA and state level agencies are understaffed compared to the number of workers in the US$.$

Many state and municipal workers do their jobs without protection from OSHA or any government agency.

Most federal employees are excluded from OSHA coverage.

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Question $154$ pts

Consensus standards are those standards that are prepared by professional experts within specific industries, professional societies and associations and determined by membership vote.

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True

False

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Question $164$ pts

An incident that is classified as a fatality or catastrophe $($a fatcat$)$ must be reported to the nearest or local OSHA office within an hour.

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True

False

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Question $174$ pts

All of the following statements describe confined spaces EXCEPT:

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