Set #1: NEHA exam Chapter 2, REHS -
HAZWOPER, ICS, NIMS, & Disaster
Response, Chapter 4: Hazwoper, ICS,
NIMS & Disaster Response Study Guide
Equal Protection - Answer-A right guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution,
wherein "no state shall deny a person" this right. It
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Example: a restaurants meat is close to temp limit allowed by law and the REHS explains that it is
reaching a hazardous condition
Statutes of limitation - Answer✔✔-The law that sets the length of time from when something happens
to when a lawsuit must be filed before the right to bring it is lost.
The Exclusionary Rule - Answer✔✔-disallows illegally obtained evidence to be admitted in court
Subpoena - Answer✔✔-legal process to compel access to records and documents
Freedom of Information Act - Answer✔✔-gives public access to governmental records, but its wording
restricts access to public records that could contain private information
dereliction - Answer✔✔-Abandoned buildings and wasteland.
Tort Law - Answer✔✔-Law that deals with harm to a person or a person's property.
standard of care - Answer✔✔-Written, accepted levels of emergency care expected by reason of training
and profession; written by legal or professional organizations so that patients are not exposed to
unreasonable risk or harm.
reasonable care - Answer✔✔-a legal concept identifying the amount of care a reasonably prudent
person would exercise in a specific situation
institutional liability - Answer✔✔-Assumes that the health facility provides certain safeguards to keep
the patient from harm
Vicarious Liability - Answer✔✔-Legal doctrine under which a party can be held liable for the wrongful
actions of another party.
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