The National Safety Council is a broad-based safety organization that has members only from
industry. - Answers False
Today's largest organization, devoted to safety and health practices, Is the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration. - Answers False
The concern for safety and health began during the industrial revolution - Answers False
The integrated approach involves practitioners working together to predict, control, identify, and
correct safety and health problems - Answers True
Occupational safety and health Administration (OSHA) is a nongovernmental public service
organization - Answers false
Theories of accident causation are used to predict and prevent accidents - Answers True
Why accidents do happen is a concern for safety and health decision makers - Answers True
An accident program does not have to take all the axioms into account to be effective - Answers False
The domino theory of accident causation is used to predict and prevent accidents - Answers true
According to heinrich's axioms on Industrial safety, the plant manager is the key person concerning
industrial accidents. - Answers False
The human factors theory of accident causation attributes accidents to a chain of events caused by
human error - Answers True
There is evidence of occupational safety and health efforts as far back as the time of the egyptian
pharaohs. - Answers True
Organized labor did not play a crucial role in the development of the safety movement - Answers
False
Tragedies have changed the face of the safety movement at different times in the United States -
Answers True
Failure maximization is one of the widely used accident prevention techniques - Answers False
The safety and health movement today is characterized by professionalization and integration. -
Answers True
The accident/incident theory is an extension of the human factors theory - Answers True
Epidemiological theory has focused on accidents caused by overload, inappropriate response, and
inappropriate activities. - Answers False
The systems theory of accidents causation views any stem in which an accident might occur as a
system with one component - Answers False
There is a strong correlation between obesity and injuries - Answers True
The contemporary view is that accidents are too costly and that accident prevention is less costly -
Answers True
The cost of accidents in the workplace involves only medical expenses - Answers False
For people thirty-seven years of age and younger, accidents are the number one cause of death -
Answers False
The leading cause of accidental deaths in the US is motor vehicle accidents - Answers True
Work accidents have increased with less attention to safety and health standards in today's workplace
- Answers False
Deaths on the job have increased considerably over the years - Answers False
Lost time is not important when assessing the effect of accidents on industry - Answers False
Overexertion is the result of employees working beyond their physical limits - Answers True
Companies can have very little impact on preventing accidents in the workplace - Answers False
Accidents rates are especially high in developing countries because they do not have safety and
health infrastructure in place - Answers True
There are signs that engineering schools are becoming less sensitive to safety and health issues -
Answers False
Engineers can make a significant contribution to safety - Answers True
The national safety council is a professional agency that focuses on safety and health issues - Answers
True
Professional certification is an excellent way to establish ones status in the field of safety and health -
Answers True
There are only a few agencies and organizations that provide updated training for safety and health
managers - Answers False