Question 1

What is the principal disadvantage of accident cause analysis?

Accepted Answer

It is the after-the -fact.

Question 2

What organization estimates the annual costs of occupational injuries on a national basis,and what are recent estimates of this figure.

Accepted Answer

The National Safety Council estimates these costs and reports them in their annual publication Injury Facts.  Recent estimates place total annual costs for occupational injuries alone at over $164 billion. (ref: Injury Facts, 2002 edition, reporting 2001 statistics)

Question 3

Studies by Simonds and Grimaldi and Imre estimate hidden costs of accidents by dividing cases into four categories.Name these categories of hidden costs:

Accepted Answer

1. First-aid cases
2. Doctors' cases
3. Lost-time cases
4. No-injury cases

Question 4

A 65-employee firm has the following injury and illness record for the year:

Case 1 - Work-related injury; no workdays lost
		Case 2 - Work-related illness; 5 days away from work
		Case 3 - Work-related injury; one workday away from work; nine more days in restricted work activity
		Case 4 - Injury; able to stay at work, but for two weeks employee was unable to do regular job and was assigned to another one.
		Case 5 - Illness; not work-related

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Question 5

Calculate the LWDI for a firm that has 15 employees and for the year has had 11 work-related injury cases,each of which involved one or more lost workdays?

Accepted Answer

The Lost Workday Incidence (LWDI) rate is calculated by taking the number of work-related injuries that resulted in lost workdays, multiplying by 200,000 (a standard figure representing the equivalent of 100 employees working 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year), and then dividing by the total number of hours worked by all employees during the year. Without the total hours worked, we can't directly calculate LWDI as typically defined. However, if we assume the question intends for us to calculate a simplified or modified LWDI based on the number of cases and a standard employee base (e.g., per 100 employees), and not using total hours worked, we can proceed as follows: (11 cases / 15 employees) * 100 = 73.3. This approach assumes each case represents a separate incident affecting the rate per 100 employees, which is a common way to present such data for comparison purposes.

Question 6

Calculate the LWDI for a firm that has 40 employees and for the year has had 12 work-related injury cases,each involving one or more lost workdays?

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Question 7

Examine the OSHA 300 Log and construct the OSHA 300a Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses on the form provided.Assume that this firm has 200 employees and all employees worked for the entire year.Calculate the LWDI.

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Question 8

Comment on the advantages and disadvantages of forming committees to identify hazards and make suggestions for resolution of these hazards.

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Question 9

Describe the fatality case study presented in the text in which the fatality would have been easily prevented by accident cause analysis of a previous near-fatality which occurred only a week earlier.

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Question 10

For the year a firm with 30 employees has two injuries,one of which involved lost workdays,and four illnesses,all of which involved lost workdays.Calculate the LWDI.

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Question 11

Workers Compensation premiums are a significant portion of the hidden costs of accidents.

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Question 12

Place an entry in the attached OSHA 300 Log for the following Case File.If the case file is not recordable write "Not recordable" on the line.
Case File 11--Tenosynovitis victim undergoes carpal tunnel surgery.The employee is away from work all day Tuesday,May 6,and returns to work Friday morning,May 9,at the regular time for her shift.However,due to the surgery she is given an alternate job beginning on the Friday that she returns to work,and she stays on that alternate job until Monday morning,June 2,when she returns to her regular job.

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Question 13

Recent estimates by the National Safety Council place the annual cost of U.S.occupational injuries alone at approximately

Accepted Answer

The question asks for the cost of U.S. occupational injuries. Option C is the only choice that has a figure in the billions, which is more realistic for the cost of such injuries. Option A is too low, while options B and D are too high. Therefore, the best choice is C.

Question 14

Briefly summarize the findings of the 1993 NSC study regarding a specific issue of OSHA reform.

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Question 15

On February 1,a firm posts its annual OSHA 300A Summary for the previous year as shown below.  
For purposes of this exercise, assume that both of the illnesses (listed in M(5)) were in the category of lost workdays (Category H – cases with days away from work). Calculate:
(a) LWDI:
(b) Illness incidence rate:
(c) Fatality-incidence rate:
(d) Number-of-lost-workdays rate:

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Question 16

What method of training is considered most effective?

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Question 17

The text describes a type of analysis that is said to be the "single most effective method of training workers to avoid injury and illness." Name this analysis and describe its advantages and its primary disadvantage.

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Question 18

The standard OSHA total injury/illness rate is scaled for:

Accepted Answer

The standard OSHA total injury/illness rate is scaled for a 100-employee firm for one year, which equates to 200,000 work-hours (100 employees working 40 hours per week for 50 weeks).

Question 19

What is the National Safety Council estimate of the average total cost of a worker fatality?

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Question 20

What specific OSHA reform concept was introduced into Congress in the early 1990’s?

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Quiz 2: Development of the Safety and Health Function