IDRL 308 MIDTERM EXAMS 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTION RATED A+
✔✔Bona fide occupational requirement - ✔✔A rule or requirement necessary for the
proper performance of a job, which can prevail even if it causes otherwise prohibited
discrimination.
✔✔Bullying - ✔✔Repeated actions or verbal comments that lead to mental harm,
isolation, or humiliation of a worker (or group), often with the intent to wield power over
them.
✔✔But for standard - ✔✔A test used in cases where it is difficult to assess whether an
injury arises and occurs from work that asks whether an injury would have arisen and
occurred in the absence of work.
✔✔Capital accumulation process - ✔✔The way in which goods and services are
produced in a capitalist economy.
✔✔Capitalism - ✔✔An economic system wherein the means of production are mostly
owned by private individuals, the distribution of goods mostly occurs through market
mechanisms, and employers face significant pressure to maximize profitability.
✔✔Capitalist social formation - ✔✔The structure of capitalist societies created by the
interaction of economic and social systems.
✔✔Careless worker myth - ✔✔The notion that workers are accident-prone, careless, or
even reckless in the execution of their duties and that these characteristics are the
primary cause of workplace injuries.
✔✔Carpal tunnel syndrome - ✔✔A cumulative trauma disorder caused by repeated
compression of the median nerve in the wrist and resulting in pain as well as loss of
coordination, sensation, and circulation.
✔✔Catastrophic stressors - ✔✔A subset of acute stress, but differing in their intensity,
threatening life, safety, or property.
✔✔Ceiling exposure value (CEV) - ✔✔The concentration of a substance that should
never be exceeded in a workplace.
✔✔Chemical hazards - ✔✔Workplace hazards potentially giving rise to injuries caused
by a chemical substance that harms human tissue or interferes with normal
physiological functioning.
, ✔✔Chronic fatigue syndrome - ✔✔An ongoing, severe feeling of tiredness not relieved
by sleep.
✔✔Chronic stressors - ✔✔Stressors that persist over a sustained period of time and
include job insecurity, work overload, or lack of control.
✔✔Chronic toxicity - ✔✔Harm caused by exposure to a substance that manifests itself
over a longer period of time.
✔✔Circadian rhythms - ✔✔The daily (24-hour) cycles our body follows to ensure high
activity during the day and low activity at night.
✔✔Collective liability - ✔✔One of the Meredith principles underlying workers'
compensation, stating that the cost of injury is shared among all employers in an
industry.
✔✔Complaint-driven enforcement - ✔✔A policy wherein workplace inspections are
triggered by individual complaints or in response to incidents (i.e., a serious injury or
fatality).
✔✔Compressed work week - ✔✔An arrangement wherein workers work longer each
day to reduce the number of days per week (or month) that they are required to work.
✔✔Consequence - ✔✔The severity of injury/ill health that will result from an incident.
✔✔Control along the path - ✔✔An approach to hazard control that addresses the
hazard at some point between its source and when workers encounter the hazard.
✔✔Control at the source - ✔✔An approach to hazard control that prevents the hazard
from entering the workplace via elimination, substitution, or some type of engineering
controls.
✔✔Control at the worker - ✔✔An approach to hazard control that controls the hazard
only after it reaches the worker.
✔✔Cost-benefit approach - ✔✔An approach to injury prevention that compares the cost
of an injury with the cost of injury prevention.
✔✔Cumulative trauma disorder - ✔✔An injury that develops due to repeatedly exposing
a part of the body to damage, such as carpal tunnel syndrome.
✔✔Dermatitis - ✔✔Irritation of the skin that often begins with a rash and can lead to
severe itching, burning, flaking, cracking, blistering, and bleeding.
SOLUTION RATED A+
✔✔Bona fide occupational requirement - ✔✔A rule or requirement necessary for the
proper performance of a job, which can prevail even if it causes otherwise prohibited
discrimination.
✔✔Bullying - ✔✔Repeated actions or verbal comments that lead to mental harm,
isolation, or humiliation of a worker (or group), often with the intent to wield power over
them.
✔✔But for standard - ✔✔A test used in cases where it is difficult to assess whether an
injury arises and occurs from work that asks whether an injury would have arisen and
occurred in the absence of work.
✔✔Capital accumulation process - ✔✔The way in which goods and services are
produced in a capitalist economy.
✔✔Capitalism - ✔✔An economic system wherein the means of production are mostly
owned by private individuals, the distribution of goods mostly occurs through market
mechanisms, and employers face significant pressure to maximize profitability.
✔✔Capitalist social formation - ✔✔The structure of capitalist societies created by the
interaction of economic and social systems.
✔✔Careless worker myth - ✔✔The notion that workers are accident-prone, careless, or
even reckless in the execution of their duties and that these characteristics are the
primary cause of workplace injuries.
✔✔Carpal tunnel syndrome - ✔✔A cumulative trauma disorder caused by repeated
compression of the median nerve in the wrist and resulting in pain as well as loss of
coordination, sensation, and circulation.
✔✔Catastrophic stressors - ✔✔A subset of acute stress, but differing in their intensity,
threatening life, safety, or property.
✔✔Ceiling exposure value (CEV) - ✔✔The concentration of a substance that should
never be exceeded in a workplace.
✔✔Chemical hazards - ✔✔Workplace hazards potentially giving rise to injuries caused
by a chemical substance that harms human tissue or interferes with normal
physiological functioning.
, ✔✔Chronic fatigue syndrome - ✔✔An ongoing, severe feeling of tiredness not relieved
by sleep.
✔✔Chronic stressors - ✔✔Stressors that persist over a sustained period of time and
include job insecurity, work overload, or lack of control.
✔✔Chronic toxicity - ✔✔Harm caused by exposure to a substance that manifests itself
over a longer period of time.
✔✔Circadian rhythms - ✔✔The daily (24-hour) cycles our body follows to ensure high
activity during the day and low activity at night.
✔✔Collective liability - ✔✔One of the Meredith principles underlying workers'
compensation, stating that the cost of injury is shared among all employers in an
industry.
✔✔Complaint-driven enforcement - ✔✔A policy wherein workplace inspections are
triggered by individual complaints or in response to incidents (i.e., a serious injury or
fatality).
✔✔Compressed work week - ✔✔An arrangement wherein workers work longer each
day to reduce the number of days per week (or month) that they are required to work.
✔✔Consequence - ✔✔The severity of injury/ill health that will result from an incident.
✔✔Control along the path - ✔✔An approach to hazard control that addresses the
hazard at some point between its source and when workers encounter the hazard.
✔✔Control at the source - ✔✔An approach to hazard control that prevents the hazard
from entering the workplace via elimination, substitution, or some type of engineering
controls.
✔✔Control at the worker - ✔✔An approach to hazard control that controls the hazard
only after it reaches the worker.
✔✔Cost-benefit approach - ✔✔An approach to injury prevention that compares the cost
of an injury with the cost of injury prevention.
✔✔Cumulative trauma disorder - ✔✔An injury that develops due to repeatedly exposing
a part of the body to damage, such as carpal tunnel syndrome.
✔✔Dermatitis - ✔✔Irritation of the skin that often begins with a rash and can lead to
severe itching, burning, flaking, cracking, blistering, and bleeding.
