Principles of Health and Safety
Management Exam 2025 Questions
and Answers 100% Pass
- legal requirements
- moral obligations
- financial benefits
- due diligence - ✔✔What are the main reasons why every company should develop
and implement a safety program?
1977 - ✔✔What year was the Alberta Occupational Health & Safety Act passed?
Due Diligence - ✔✔The ability to demonstrate that a person did what could reasonably
be expected under their circumstances, in order to satisfy a legal requirement.
The actions taken before an incident occurs, not after. - ✔✔A due diligence defence
depends on your ability to demonstrate what?
"Doing what is reasonably practicable" is a legal obligation that you must perform at all
times.
"Due diligences" is a defense where the person has failed to comply with an OHS legal
requirement, but can prove that they did everything reasonable to avoid that non-
compliance. - ✔✔What is the key difference between "doing what is reasonably
practicable" and "due diligence"?
1. Foreseeability: could a reasonable person foresee that something could go wrong?
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, 2. Preventability: Is there an opportunity to prevent an injury or incident?
3. Control: Who has the ability or responsibility to prevent an injury or incident from
occurring? - ✔✔What are the three main factors a judge or jury considers in
determining whether a person's defence of due diligence is valid?
- employers
- supervisors
- workers
- suppliers
- service providers
- owners
- contractors
- prime contractors
- self-employed persons
- temporary staffing agencies - ✔✔What are the 10 work site parties defined in the OHS
Act?
Hazard
A condition, device or substance that can directly cause injury to people or damage to
property - ✔✔Anything with the potential to cause human injury or loss, or damage to
equipment or property; loss of production and / or damage to the environment.
Hazard Assessment
A process for the examination of potential losses resulting from workplace hazards,
changing conditions in the workplace or health and / or safety program system failures.
- ✔✔A thorough examination of a specific job or operation to identify what actual and
potential hazards exists
Prioritization - ✔✔Ranking the priority of a job or task based on the level of risk
Controls - ✔✔A method, or combination of methods, used to eliminate or reduce the
presence of a hazard.
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Management Exam 2025 Questions
and Answers 100% Pass
- legal requirements
- moral obligations
- financial benefits
- due diligence - ✔✔What are the main reasons why every company should develop
and implement a safety program?
1977 - ✔✔What year was the Alberta Occupational Health & Safety Act passed?
Due Diligence - ✔✔The ability to demonstrate that a person did what could reasonably
be expected under their circumstances, in order to satisfy a legal requirement.
The actions taken before an incident occurs, not after. - ✔✔A due diligence defence
depends on your ability to demonstrate what?
"Doing what is reasonably practicable" is a legal obligation that you must perform at all
times.
"Due diligences" is a defense where the person has failed to comply with an OHS legal
requirement, but can prove that they did everything reasonable to avoid that non-
compliance. - ✔✔What is the key difference between "doing what is reasonably
practicable" and "due diligence"?
1. Foreseeability: could a reasonable person foresee that something could go wrong?
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, 2. Preventability: Is there an opportunity to prevent an injury or incident?
3. Control: Who has the ability or responsibility to prevent an injury or incident from
occurring? - ✔✔What are the three main factors a judge or jury considers in
determining whether a person's defence of due diligence is valid?
- employers
- supervisors
- workers
- suppliers
- service providers
- owners
- contractors
- prime contractors
- self-employed persons
- temporary staffing agencies - ✔✔What are the 10 work site parties defined in the OHS
Act?
Hazard
A condition, device or substance that can directly cause injury to people or damage to
property - ✔✔Anything with the potential to cause human injury or loss, or damage to
equipment or property; loss of production and / or damage to the environment.
Hazard Assessment
A process for the examination of potential losses resulting from workplace hazards,
changing conditions in the workplace or health and / or safety program system failures.
- ✔✔A thorough examination of a specific job or operation to identify what actual and
potential hazards exists
Prioritization - ✔✔Ranking the priority of a job or task based on the level of risk
Controls - ✔✔A method, or combination of methods, used to eliminate or reduce the
presence of a hazard.
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