Exam 14: Occupational Health and Safety

Amin is the manager of an auto parts manufacturing plant in Oakville, Ontario.The plant has experienced a rise in workplace injuries over the past year.Amin is considering which questions he can ask during candidate interviews.Which of the following questions would not pose a legal risk to the company if he asked it?

Warning signs of repetitive strain injury can include any of the following except

Canadian corporate executives and directors may be held directly responsible for workplace injuries.

There is an erroneous perception that cancer-causing agents in the workplace are

The components of WHMIS are

Briefly discuss the three basic causes of accidents in the workplace.

In addition to unsafe working conditions, other work-related factors contribute to accidents, such as the job itself, work schedules and the psychological climate of the workplace.

Employee drug testing can be used in virtually all work-related circumstances.

Ergonomics is the art of fitting the workstation and work to the individual.

Virtually all of the energies of burnout victims are focused on

Victims of workplace violence are generally

In order for drug and alcohol testing to be legal in Canada, one of the conditions that must be met is that

Maike is a supervisor of a team of oil rig workers.She has discovered that two of her direct reports have a substance abuse problem.Which of the following actions should she take?

Unsafe acts can be reduced by using a behavioural approach, specifically

In general, when compared to non-smoking employees, smokers exhibit the following characteristics except for

The total depletion of physical and mental resources caused by excessive striving to reach some unrealistic work-related goal is referred to by the term

You are a newly hired human resources professional at a Canadian Border Services office located near the Halifax Port.Employees often have to board container ships and search their cargo.To which law do you look for Canada-wide standards on hazardous materials in the workplace:

Surveys have shown that ____ percent of Canadians believe that workplace accidents are inevitable.

In Canada, when dealing with alcohol and substance abuse, employers must balance conflicting legal obligations from occupational health and safety legislation and

If employees have "reasonable cause"to believe that work is dangerous, they have the right under health and safety legislation to