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1
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Condition with the potential of causing death, injury, or property damage.

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Hazard

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2
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Refers to the chance of loss as you interact with that hazard.

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Risk

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3
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A thing, event, etc. is judged safe if its risks are judged ______.

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Acceptable

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4
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What are the four “Es” of safety programs?

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Educations
Enforcement
Engineering
Environment

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5
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Safety education consists of what three elements?

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Knowledge
Attitudes
Skill development

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6
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Charactrisitics of accidents include..?

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degree of expectedness
degree of avoidability
degree of intention

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7
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What is the national safety council definition?

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An accident is that occurrence in a sequence of events which USUALLY produces unintended injury, death, or property damage.

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8
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An accident is a _______, unplanned event which may produce ______ effects, and is preceded by unsafe, ______ acts and/or conditions.

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Nondelibrate
undesirable
avoidable

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9
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The _______ is a nonprofit, nongovernmental, international public service organization dedicated to protecting life and promoting health.

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National Safety Council

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10
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What are the most common injury related deaths?

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home, car, public deaths, work deaths

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11
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What is number 5 on the death list?

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Accidental

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12
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Four classes of accidents?

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motor vehicle
home
public
work

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13
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what is the order of deaths due to accidents?

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Poisoning
Motor vehicle
falls
choking
drowning
fire,flames,smoke
mechanical suffication
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14
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Which age group has the largest death rate?

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75+ years

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15
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Which age group has the largest amount of deaths?

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45-64

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16
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2010 data reveals that a fatal injury occurs every __ minutes and a disabling injury occurs every __ seconds.

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4

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17
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To understand the impact of injury on society, injury on society, injury deaths by age should be examined both as a _____________ and as the ____________.

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Percentage of all death

number of deaths per 100000 population

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18
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What will you most likely die of at the age of 20.

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motor vehicle

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19
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What will you most likely of at 50

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poisoning

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20
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What will you most likely die of at the ages 80-90

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falls

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21
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How do the fatality rates change as age increases?

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falls

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22
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When do females pass males on unintentional injury related deaths?

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83+

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23
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what is the number one killer for old women?

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falls

24
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What are the leading cause of death for 1-41 year olds?

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accidents

25
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Accidents are the _____ leading cause of death overall exceeded only by heart disease, cancer, stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases.

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fifth

26
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Accidents are a silent epidemic with one person dying from an accident every ____ minutes

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four

27
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What are the five safest and five most dangerous states?

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safest: 
maryland
new york
california
new jersey
illinois
Dangerous :
west virginia
wyoming
oklahoma
kentucky
new mexico
28
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Accidents in principle can occur through

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  1. Lack of knowledge
  2. Lack of skill
  3. Carelessness
  4. Recklessness
  5. Bad luck
29
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What are the three stress prone personalities?

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Type A
Codependent
Helpless-Hopeless

30
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What is a type A personality?

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Once labeled as the impatient personality, Type A behavior is now regarded as actions based on a sense of latent anger that manifests in explosive, competitive, and impetuous behaviors.

31
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What is a codependent personality?

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Composed of many traits that coalesce as a collective defense mechanism to cope. (enabler)

32
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A person who for some reason has met failure at every turn. No self esteem at all.

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Helpless- Hopeless

33
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What is a hardy personality?

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People who see a problem through to its solution, challenge themselves to accomplish and control emotions in a balanced way.

34
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What is a stress resistant personalities?

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Hardy personality
Survivor personality
Calculated risk taker

35
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What is a survivor personality?

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People who exhibit a balance of left and right brain skills who believe problems can be approached creatively and solutions executed with confidence.

36
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Finds more courage than fear always weighing situations and coming up with the most level headed approach. May thrive on danger, but…

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Calculated risk taker

37
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The balanced, mature, and well controlled personn with a healthy and realistic outlook, satisfactory interpersonal relations, a kindly and tolerant attitude to others, a well developed social and civic conscience and an ingrained sense of responsibilty.

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Shaw and Sichels Low Accident Risk Profile

38
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High or low risk for accidents?

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The person who is essentially a moderate individual, able to exercise adequate control over impulses and emotions.
The contented person is friendly cheerful adaptable and accepting- provided the person is reasonably intelligent, realistic, and mature

39
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What are some qualities of a high risk person according to SHaw and Sichels high accident risk profile?

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Mental defective or psychotic
disorganized, disoriented, badly disturbed
distorted perception of life
Distorted sense of value
Lacks self control
competitive
Irritable'chronically indecisive
exhibits undue signs of aging
40
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What are some of the common fallacies that retard our efforts to prevent accidents?

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“The other fellow” concept
“Your number is up” concept
“Act of God” concept

41
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WHat are the three concepts of accident proneess?

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The multiple accident concept
The variable group concept
The universal-susceptibility concept

42
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What is the multiple accident concept?

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This theory implied that accident repeaters were prone to accidents.

43
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what did the multiple accident concept divide people into?

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  1. Accident free

2. Accident repeaters

44
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This theory was based on the belief that accident proneness was a variable characteristics in people

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The variable group concept

45
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What is the universal-susceptibilty concept?

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This theory states that the level of resistance or individuals to accident producing behavior makes them more or less susceptible to accidents

46
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Brodys profile of personality traits for the accident prone

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  • Greater distractibilty than average
  • A tendency to be asocial, nonconforming, aggressive, and intolerare
  • A tendency to act impulsively
  • Emotional instability including difficulty in tolerating tension and frustration.
47
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What are the short term accident proneness on MCGuires principles of accident proneness?

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Crisis Reaction

Reaction to transient conditions (hungry, ill, bathroom, bee in the car)

48
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What are the long term accident proneness on McGuires principles of accident proneness?

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  1. Physical conditions
  2. Character conditions- The interpersonal domain encompasses traits that characteristize how people interact with one another
  3. Intrapsychic condition - Denoting the psychological dynamics that occur inside the mind without reference to the persons exchange with other people or events or rather how they relate to themselves. Syn: intrapersonal
49
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The epidemiologic model for injury has what environmental conditions?

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Host, agent, vehicle = injury

50
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What are some cues to action - health belief model

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The more frequency they occur
The more varied the source of the cue, the more likely that action will result
The more recent the cue, the more likely that action will happen
The more emotional the cue
The more the cue represents an existing belief, the more likely that action will occur

51
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Biorhythm -

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life cycle

52
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What are the basic biorhythms?

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physical
emotional
intellectual

53
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How long are each of the biorhythms

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23 physical
28 emotionL
33 intellectual

54
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What is included in physical cycle?

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coordination
strength
well being

55
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What is included in emotional cycle?

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creativity
sensitivity
mood
perception
awareness
56
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What is included in intellectual cycle?

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alertness
analytical functionning
logical analysis
memory or recall
communication

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