OFFICIAL OHS TEST BANK
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS(GRADED
A+)
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 - ANSWERANS: c
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 - ANSWERd
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 - ANSWERa
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 - ANSWERANS: b
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 - ANSWERc
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 - ANSWERANS: 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 indi-vidual control - ANSWERd
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. - ANSWERc
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. - ANSWERb
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 - ANSWERb
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 - ANSWERd
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 - ANSWERc
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 - ANSWERb
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS(GRADED
A+)
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 - ANSWERANS: c
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 - ANSWERd
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 - ANSWERa
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 - ANSWERANS: b
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 - ANSWERc
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 - ANSWERANS: 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 indi-vidual control - ANSWERd
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. - ANSWERc
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. - ANSWERb
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 - ANSWERb
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 - ANSWERd
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 - ANSWERc
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 - ANSWERb
