QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What are the three types of health and safety program interventions?
A. Engineering, psychological, and cultural
B. Behavioural, cultural, and physical
C. Engineering, administrative, and behavioural
D. Psychological, behavioural, and physical - CORRECT ANSWER C
Which of the following represents a behavioural intervention for improving occupational
health and safety?
A. Job rotation
B. Skills training
C. Workstation redesign
D. Forming a safety committee - CORRECT ANSWER B
Proper hand washing is an example of what category of safety behaviour?
A. Proper use of hazard control systems
B. Development of safe work habits
C. Maintenance of housekeeping standards
D. Maintenance of accepted hygiene practices - CORRECT ANSWER D
What equation defines safety performance?
A. Safety performance = Ability × Motivation × Opportunity
B. Safety performance = Ability + Motivation + Opportunity
,C. Safety performance = Skill + Knowledge + Ability
D. Safety performance = Skill × Knowledge × Ability - CORRECT ANSWER A
What basic model underlies most applications of behavioural programming in the workplace?
A. Trigger → Behaviour → Reward
B. Trigger → Consequence→ Behaviour
C. Antecedent → Behaviour → Consequence
D. Antecedent → Behaviour → Reward - CORRECT ANSWER C
Which of the following is a dimension for characterizing behavioural consequences?
A. Immediate or delayed
B. Short-term or long-term
C. Limited or extensive
D. Compliance or performance - CORRECT ANSWER A
When planning behaviour-based safety programs that include incentives, what do planners
need to ensure?
A. That feedback is not used as an incentive
B. That incentives are used in place of employee training
C. That incentive programs manipulate employees' behaviour
D. That incentives are tied to behaviours under individual control - CORRECT
ANSWER D
What goal-setting technique explained why a larger proportion of one group of university
staff members attended a health and safety training session, compared to the lower attendance
seen in a second group of staff members?
,A. They were given a more difficult goal.
B. They were given a more specific goal.
C. They were more committed to the goal.
D. They received more feedback about their progress. - CORRECT ANSWER C
In the multi-tasking world that we live in today, why is goal setting even more important than
ever?
A. It makes us persist with a task.
B. It directs our attention to a specific task.
C. It helps us mobilize our efforts to achieve a task.
D. It helps to find new strategies to overcome obstacles. - CORRECT ANSWER B
What is a contribution that senior management can make to ensure that their organization will
have a strong safety climate?
A. Monitoring use of personal protective equipment b. Developing explicit and enacted
policies on safety
C. Praising new hires for transfer of training
D. Reporting employees for unsafe behaviour - CORRECT ANSWER B
According to research, what is the means through which an organization's safety promotion
activities produce safer work behaviour?
A. Safety compliance
B. Safety participation
C. Actual safety climate
D. Perceived safety climate - CORRECT ANSWER D
, According to self-determination theory, what forms of extrinsic motivation result in more of a
self- directed effort to work in safer ways?
A. External and introjected
B. Introjected and identified
C. Identified and integrated
D. Integrated and external - CORRECT ANSWER C
Setting and communicating high expectations for safe performance of work tasks is
associated with what dimension of transformational leadership?
A. Idealized influence
B. Inspirational motivation
C. Intellectual stimulation
D. Individualized consideration - CORRECT ANSWER B
How can hrms ensure that employees utilize the knowledge and skills gained during training
and consistently perform their work duties in a safe manner?
A. By installing surveillance cameras
B. By providing rewards for reporting unsafe behaviour
C. By building a safety culture and safety leadership d. By rewarding reductions in incidents
and injuries - CORRECT ANSWER C
Elinor has the chance to earn a gift certificate for any Swiss Chalet restaurant if her
department has over 90% use of safety glasses in the last six months. According to
motivational theory what type of reward is this?
A. Compliance
B. Contingent
C. Complementary