Risky Business
Key Legislation
OSHA
Are You Safe?
Is Your Organization Healthy?
100
The identification, evaluation, and control of risk that may affect an organization.
What is risk management?
100
This legislation was established to protect employees' safety and health.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act?
100
The Federal Agency responsible for enforcing the OSH Act.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
100
The freedom from hazard, risk, or injury for employees on the job.
What is (Workplace) Safety?
100
These three hazards relate to environmental health.
What are physical, chemical, and biological hazards?
200
A type of plan to ensure an organization can continue operating when a natural disaster occurs
What is a Disaster Recovery Plan?
200
This legislation was passed to ensure a drug-free workplace.
What is the Drug-Free Workplace Act?
200
This is displayed in a conspicuous place where it can be read by all employees.
What is the OSHA poster?
200
Risk Management involves managing these three factors/influences.
What are Internal influences, External influences, and Human Factors?
200
HR professionals need to be aware of these four infectious diseases.
What are Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS, and Tuberculosis?
300
A type of insurance program administered by the state to pay for workplace injuries.
What is Workers' Compensation?
300
This legislation gives federal officials greater authority to take measures to combat terrorism.
What is the USA Patriot Act?
300
This form is used to classify work-related injuries and illnesses and note the extent and severity of each case.
What is OSHA's Form 300: Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses?
300
Safety committees, training, and communication.
What are three proactive measures that employers can initiate to ensure the safety of their employees?
300
This type of employer sponsored program delivers a variety of health-related and personal services to employees via licensed professionals or organizations.
What is the Employee Assistance Program (EAP)?
400
An organization can purchase this to help protect it from future employment liability claims
What is Employment Practices Liability Insurance?
400
Twenty-two separate federal agencies combined to form this cabinet-level agency to protect the United States from terrorism
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
400
Willful, Serious, Other-Than-Serious, Repeat, and De Minimis.
What are the five levels of OSHA violations?
400
These three steps are for learning why/how an accident happened.
What are Investigate the scene of the accident; Interview the injured employee, his/her supervisor, and witnesses to the accident; and Complete the accident investigation report?
400
These types of programs are geared toward improving employees' health and physical well being.
What are wellness programs?
500
A person who has some authority or control over the management of a retirement plan or its assets.
What is a retirement fiduciary?
500
This legislation regulates minimum wage, overtime pay, and child labor, among other employment practices.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)?
500
OSHA currently publishes six volumnes of standards in the Code of Federal Regulations covering these four major categories.
What are general industry, maritime, construction, and agriculture?
500
These disorders are responsible for increasing workers' compensation claims estimated to be between $15 billion and $20 billion per year.
What are Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs)?
500
Employees respond to stress in these three ways.
What are Physiological, Psychological, and Behavioral?