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MNO3704-24-S2 Welcome Message Assessment 1
QUIZ
Question 1
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Which one of the following statements describes the role of the water, air and soil experts in a cross-functional team?
a. The water, air and soil experts ensure that workers increase their level of competence pertaining to SHE issues in the
workplace.
b. The water, air and soil experts perform the functions associated with planning and control, ensuring effective dealing
with environmental aspects.
c. The water, air and soil experts assist organisations in implementing an EMS that will prevent or minimise damage to
such elements of human, plant and animal life.
d. The water, air and soil experts assist in taking ownership and accountability of potential and actual environmental
impacts.
Question 2
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Which one of the following statements describes the role of the engineer in a cross-functional team?
a. The engineer is responsible for guarding the quality of safety programmes and facilitating the discussion and
decision-making process.
b. The engineer focuses on the human-machine interface, including the environment, the machine, and the capabilities
of a person.
c. The engineer focuses on work equipment, the overall work environment and the general living environment.
d. The engineer contributes to monitoring environmental issues in and around an organisation’s facilities.
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Question 3
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There are eight justifications regarding the value of the environment. Which one of the following statements best describes
the concept of moral justification?
a. The environment is valuable because it has the right to exist and it remains humanity’s moral obligation to allow it to
persist.
b. The environment is valuable because all cultures may value nature and religious beliefs influence their resource
consumption.
c. The environment is valuable because it aids human creativity due to its benefits to the human spirit.
d. The environment is valuable because of its benefits to individual economies or is necessary for human survival.
Question 4
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There are seven branches of environmental science. Engineering can be described as …
a. studying the composition of different substances.
b. studying living things and their various processes.
c. studying the behaviours of the universe.
d. studying the use of scientific principles to design and build.
Question 5
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Which one of the following statements describes the concept of management?
a. Management is multidisciplinary in nature, because the members come from different professions or disciplines that
convene to produce the best available solution to any safety, health and environment (SHE) challenges in the
workplace.
b. Management represents human endeavours to understand and describe the ways that natural, human, financial and
man-made resources should be used to reach specified goals, objectives and targets, while giving full recognition to
and applying the economic principles.
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Question 6
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The National Environmental Management Act depicts the environment as the total surroundings within which the human race
exists. The social environment ...
a. consists of all physical and chemical substances, all forms of life, as well as all ecological processes and
interactions.
b. is man-made, made up of physical structures and infrastructures.
c. consists of socio-cultural structures and processes, as well as the community and products of safety and health.
Question 7
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There are eight justifications regarding the value of the environment. Which one of the following statements best describes
the concept of ecological justification?
a. The environment is valuable because it aids human creativity.
b. The ecosystem is valuable for the survival of species beneficial to us.
c. The environment is valuable because of its beauty.
d. Different cultures have different and similar values regarding the environment.
Question 8
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The … includes all structures, processes and practices humans create to advance their quality of life.
a. social environment
b. natural environment
c. built environment
d. organisational environment
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