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Supervisors Safety Manual Edition 11
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What premise does managing safety start from? - ✔✔That most incidents
can be prevented
What are near misses? - ✔✔Incidents without injury or property damage
Are accidents random? - ✔✔No, they are preventable events
What does safety management theory indicate? - ✔✔That incidents can be
prevented with proper hazard identification and evaluation, management
commitment and support, preventive and corrective procedures,
monitoring, evaluation, and training
When was the Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act
passed? - ✔✔1970
When was the EPA established? - ✔✔1970
When was OSHA established? - ✔✔1971
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What power was OSHA given? - ✔✔To monitor companies' compliance
with newly legislated safety and health standards
What power was the EPA given? - ✔✔Monitoring companies' compliance
with environmental regulations
What is an acceptable risk level? - ✔✔Risks are acceptable if they are
judged to be tolerable
What is the definition of hazard control? - ✔✔A process intended to control
or eliminate future hazards by taking preventative action or controlling or
eliminating current hazards by taking corrective action.
What happens if elimination of hazards or substitution of processes or
materials cannot be performed? - ✔✔Hazards must be controlled by
another method
What are methods of controlling hazards? - ✔✔Engineering controls,
administrative controls, or PPE
What are engineering controls? - ✔✔Engineer the hazard out by initial
design specifications or by applying substitution methods, isolation,
enclosure, or ventilation.
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What is the first method of hazard controls to be considered? -
✔✔Engineering controls
What are administrative controls? - ✔✔Reduce employees exposures
through methods such as education and training, work reduction, job
rotation, maintenance/repairs, housekeeping, personal hygiene, and
appropriate work practices
What does administrative controls depend on? - ✔✔Constant employee
implementation or intervention
What is PPE? - ✔✔A device warn by employees to protect them from the
environment
What is the hazard control of last resort? - ✔✔PPE
When should PPE hazard control be considered? - ✔✔As a method for
hazard control only when protection through engineering or administrative
controls is not available or possible, or where the other methods of control
are not fully protective of the worker performing the task
What is a hazard? - ✔✔Any existing or potential workplace condition that,
by itself or by interacting with other variables, can result in death, injury,
property damage, or other loss
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What two categories can hazards be divided into? - ✔✔Unsafe acts (e.g.,
not wearing PPE, unauthorized use of equipment, using defective tools) or
unsafe conditions (e.g., lack of safety devices/guards, hazardous
atmospheres, poor housekeeping)
What is an incident? - ✔✔Any unplanned event that results in personal
injury or damage to property, equipment, or the environment; or an event
that has the potential to result in such consequences
What is a near miss? - ✔✔Incidents without personal injury or damage to
property, equipment, or the environment
What is incidence rate? - ✔✔Number of occupational injuries and/or
illnesses or lost workdays per 100 full-time employees
What is the definition of risk? - ✔✔A measure of the probability and severity
of adverse reactions
What is risk asssessment? - ✔✔The ranking of crisis by three criteria:
exposure, severity, and probability. Is an effective means of prioritizing
actions
What is safety? - ✔✔The control and elimination of recognized hazards to
attain an acceptable level of risk
Supervisors Safety Manual Edition 11
Exam Questions and Answers 100%
Solved
What premise does managing safety start from? - ✔✔That most incidents
can be prevented
What are near misses? - ✔✔Incidents without injury or property damage
Are accidents random? - ✔✔No, they are preventable events
What does safety management theory indicate? - ✔✔That incidents can be
prevented with proper hazard identification and evaluation, management
commitment and support, preventive and corrective procedures,
monitoring, evaluation, and training
When was the Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act
passed? - ✔✔1970
When was the EPA established? - ✔✔1970
When was OSHA established? - ✔✔1971
,©NINJANERD 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
What power was OSHA given? - ✔✔To monitor companies' compliance
with newly legislated safety and health standards
What power was the EPA given? - ✔✔Monitoring companies' compliance
with environmental regulations
What is an acceptable risk level? - ✔✔Risks are acceptable if they are
judged to be tolerable
What is the definition of hazard control? - ✔✔A process intended to control
or eliminate future hazards by taking preventative action or controlling or
eliminating current hazards by taking corrective action.
What happens if elimination of hazards or substitution of processes or
materials cannot be performed? - ✔✔Hazards must be controlled by
another method
What are methods of controlling hazards? - ✔✔Engineering controls,
administrative controls, or PPE
What are engineering controls? - ✔✔Engineer the hazard out by initial
design specifications or by applying substitution methods, isolation,
enclosure, or ventilation.
,©NINJANERD 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
What is the first method of hazard controls to be considered? -
✔✔Engineering controls
What are administrative controls? - ✔✔Reduce employees exposures
through methods such as education and training, work reduction, job
rotation, maintenance/repairs, housekeeping, personal hygiene, and
appropriate work practices
What does administrative controls depend on? - ✔✔Constant employee
implementation or intervention
What is PPE? - ✔✔A device warn by employees to protect them from the
environment
What is the hazard control of last resort? - ✔✔PPE
When should PPE hazard control be considered? - ✔✔As a method for
hazard control only when protection through engineering or administrative
controls is not available or possible, or where the other methods of control
are not fully protective of the worker performing the task
What is a hazard? - ✔✔Any existing or potential workplace condition that,
by itself or by interacting with other variables, can result in death, injury,
property damage, or other loss
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What two categories can hazards be divided into? - ✔✔Unsafe acts (e.g.,
not wearing PPE, unauthorized use of equipment, using defective tools) or
unsafe conditions (e.g., lack of safety devices/guards, hazardous
atmospheres, poor housekeeping)
What is an incident? - ✔✔Any unplanned event that results in personal
injury or damage to property, equipment, or the environment; or an event
that has the potential to result in such consequences
What is a near miss? - ✔✔Incidents without personal injury or damage to
property, equipment, or the environment
What is incidence rate? - ✔✔Number of occupational injuries and/or
illnesses or lost workdays per 100 full-time employees
What is the definition of risk? - ✔✔A measure of the probability and severity
of adverse reactions
What is risk asssessment? - ✔✔The ranking of crisis by three criteria:
exposure, severity, and probability. Is an effective means of prioritizing
actions
What is safety? - ✔✔The control and elimination of recognized hazards to
attain an acceptable level of risk
