Exam 4: Roles and Professional Certifications for Safety and Health Professionals

Recognizing the impact of environmental stressors on people is one of the responsibilities of the industrial hygienist.

Which of the following professional certifications requires the delivery of 270 hours of training or teaching in safety, health, and environmental related areas?

Risk reduction strategies and transferring risk to insurance companies is called:

One of the contributions engineers can make to safety is designing safety into products.

The modern safety and health team is headed by a safety manager.

In order to be a safety manager, you must have at least a bachelors degree in safety management or engineering.

Not all safety engineers are engineering majors. In fact, graduates of various technology degrees may have more formal instruction in safety than engineering graduates.

Employees have important responsibilities in working safely and in maintaining a safe and healthy workplace.

Which of the following is NOT a reason for the emerging role of safety professionals?

The job of the safety manager includes analysis, prevention, planning, evaluation, promotion, and compliance.

Prescribing methods to eliminate environmental stressors in the workplace is the job of the environmental engineer.

The only college degree program that prepares students to be safety managers is the safety technology degree.

Which of the following is NOT a responsibility of the health physicist?

Industrial hygienists are concerned primarily with mechanical and machine related hazards.

As the world gets flatter, safety professionals will have to become change leaders.

Occupational health nurses are concerned with conserving the health of workers through:

The most widely pursued safety and health related certifications include:

Members of an organization's safety team might include all of the following: safety engineer, industrial hygienist, occupational physician, and total productive maintenance specialist.

Occupational physicians are medical doctors who focus most of their attention on: