Health
1. What does IIPP stand for?
- Answer: C. Injury and Illness Prevention Program (Correct option).
2. What does OSHA acknowledge as a means of demonstrating commitment to workplace safety and
health?
- Answer: A. Good faith by an employer (Correct option).
3. What is the correct order of precedence and effectiveness for hazard control measures?
- Answer: D. Engineering controls, Administrative/Work Practice Controls, and PPE (Correct option).
,4. What does the Risk Assessment Code (RAC) evaluate?
- Answer: D. Both the probability of a hazardous event and the degree of hazard severity (Correct
option).
5. Which components are included in OSHA’s proposed rule for the Injury and Illness Prevention
Program (IIPP)?
- Answer: D. All of the above, including management duties, hazard identification, and training (Correct
option).
6. Define a Job Hazard Analysis (JHA).
- Answer: D. It is a technique focusing on job tasks to identify hazards and also considers the
relationship between the worker, the tasks, tools, and environment (Correct option).
7. What should the focus of an incident investigation be?
, - Answer: D. To understand why the accident or near miss happened and what can be done to prevent
it from occurring again (Correct option).
8. Which types of incidents necessitate investigation?
- Answer: D. All of the above, including serious injuries, lost-time injuries and illnesses, and near misses
(Correct option).
9. What elements are crucial for an effective occupational safety and health program?
- Answer: E. All the above, which include management commitment, employee involvement, worksite
analysis, hazard prevention, and health training (Correct option).
10. What is the primary objective common to various safety programs like IIPP or Accident Prevention
Programs?
, - Answer: E. Both C and D, which means to help reduce workplace injuries and illnesses through a
systematic approach and proactively address safety and health hazards (Correct option).
11. What are the fundamental causes of accidents or incidents?
- Answer: D. Both A and B, which refer to unsafe acts (personnel-related) and unsafe conditions
(environment and substances) (Correct option).
12. For corrective and preventive actions to be effective, what must they have?
- Answer: D. All of the above, including acceptance by workers, managers, and effectiveness in
controlling the hazard (Correct option).
13. Who should be responsible for safety and health program responsibilities at the workplace?
- Answer: D. All of the above, meaning employees, supervisors, and managers share this accountability
(Correct option).