Industrial and Environmental Safety Course

Lecture 1 (MCQ)
1. ………….is the discipline concerned with preserving and protecting human
resources in the workplace.

A. Occupational health and safety

B. Work Environment

C. Occupational disease

D. Industrial safety
ANSWER: A

2. To obtain higher productivity, individuals’ (Physical, social and

psychological) should be well-being)

A. True

B. False

ANSWER: A

3. Occupational Health is the promotion and maintenance of the highest

degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all occupations by
preventing departures from health, controlling risks and the adaptation of work to
people, and people to their jobs, this is according to______

A. NISOH

B. OSHA

C. ILO / WHO

ANSWER: C
4. …….. : is an agency of the United States Department of Labour and its aim
is to prevent occupational health hazards by enforcing workplace health and
safety standards and also by educating workers about their rights.

A. NISOH

B. OSHA

C. ILO

D. WHO
ANSWER: B

5. ……… in the United States is the federal agency responsible for

undertaking research and making recommendations for the prevention of work
related injuries and illness.

A. NISOH

B. OSHA

C. ILO

D. WHO

ANSWER: A

6. …….. is an agency of united nations, acting as a coordinating authority on

international public health

A. NISOH

B. OSHA

C. ILO

D. WHO

ANSWER: D
7. ……… is devoted to promoting social justice and internationally recognized
human and labor rights, pursuing its founding mission that social justice is
essential to universal and lasting peace.

A. NISOH

B. OSHA

C. ILO

D. WHO

ANSWER: C

8. An occupational exposure the worker has that is greater than a normal

physical danger by the very nature of the work in which the worker is engaged.

A. Occupational Hazards

B. Safety

C. Occupational disease

D. Industrial safety

ANSWER: A

9. ………. is primarily concerned with mechanical hazards such as falling,

tripping, being caught in or between things, fire and explosion. These hazards are
evaluated and controlled by safety engineers, safety professionals or other safety
specialists.
A. Occupational Hazards

B. Safety

C. Occupational disease

D. Industrial safety.
ANSWER: D
10. ………… Science and art devoted to the anticipation, recognition,
evaluation, prevention, and control of those environmental factors or stresses
arising in or from the workplace, which may cause sickness, impaired health and
well being, or significant discomfort among workers or among citizens of the
community.
A. Occupational Hazards

B. Industrial hygiene

C. Occupational disease

D. Industrial safety.

ANSWER: B

11. ………….. resulting from conditions of employment (usually from long

exposure to a noxious substance or from the continuous repetition of certain acts.

A. Occupational Hazards

B. Industrial hygiene

C. Occupational disease

D. Industrial safety.
ANSWER: C

12. It is the condition of being protected against failure, damage, error,

accidents, or harm. Here protection involves both causing and exposure. It
include physical protection or that possessions. Safety is often in relation to some
guarantee of a standard of insurance to the quality and safe function of a thing or
organization.
A. Occupational Hazards

B. Safety

C. Occupational disease
D. Industrial safety.
ANSWER: D

13. Consequences of not addressing safety and health have to do with why
OSH is addressed by employers. These consequences include…….. profit.

A. Injury

B. Loss

C. increase

D. Liability of

ANSWER: B

14. Before an accident can occur, what two conditions must be met?

A. A hazard and exposure to the hazard

B. A hazard and a behavior

C. Bad timing and a situation

D. Exposure and unsafe behavior

ANSWER: A

15. Which of the following most closely summarizes OSHA's definition of a

hazard?

A. People, places, or things

B. Anything that could injure

C. A danger which threatens harm

D. A condition or practice

ANSWER: D