Health & Safety Flashcards
According the CA Law, WC benefits must be provide when?
Day one of hire and regardless of who is at fault in an accident.
According to the Bureau of Labor Standards Statistics, what causes more than 50 percent of all occupational illnesses today?
Cumulative Trauma Disorder (CTD)
An employee who is a victim of domestic violence who may have to take time off to obtain a restraining order or take other legal measures to protect themselves or their children are protected at work from what adverse employment actions?
Termination, discrimination, or retaliation.
All of the below are types of work that an employee may return to after a workers’ compensation injury.
a. Regular Work
b. Modified Work
c. Alternative Work
An IIPP must include a system for communicating with employees that meets what criteria?
Readily understandable by all affected employees.
An incident that results in a fatality requires an employer to contact Cal/OSHA by when?
8 hours
As required by Cal/OSHA, an effective IIPP includes training for which two groups?
Select one:
Supervisors and Employees
Californias No Smoking Law is generally intended to do which of the following:
Ban Smoking in most indoor places.
Cal/OSHA requires that employers do which of the following?
Provide employees access to their medical records.
From an occupational safety and health standpoint, a good accident investigation ultimately answers all of which list of questions that follow?
What happened? Where did it happen? When did it happen? How did it happen? Why did it happen? What should be done to prevent or minimize such an incident in the future? What action is needed?
How soon must California employers report work-related fatalities and serious injuries or illnesses?
within 8 hours
