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Occupational Health and Safety

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Occupational health and safety involve identifying workplace hazards, implementing protective equipment, and establishing administrative controls to prevent accidents. These questions cover mitigation measures, risk reduction, and safety best practices. This material is useful for RRB, SSC, and state-level technical or general awareness exams.

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Occupational Health and Safety Questions

Multiple choice geography hazards hazards and types of hazards introduction to disaster natural disasters and hazards

Which of the following statements are the Do's for the students regarding transport related accidents.

  1. Intimate instantly to ambulance service as an when the accident occurs.

  2. Inform the police about the accident happened.

  3. Medical assistance should be provided immediately to the injured people.

  4. All of the above.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

In the event of a transport accident, students should prioritize calling for emergency services, informing authorities, and providing immediate aid, making all options correct.

Multiple choice organization of commerce and management social responsibility of management and csr concept of social responsibility social responsibility social responsibility - concept corporate social responsibility

Which one of the following is not recommended as a method for a company to protect itself against sexual harassment charges ? 

  1. Develop a zero-tolerance policy on harassment and communicate it to employees.

  2. Retaliate swiftly against employees who brings-forth charges of harassment.

  3. Give swift and sure punishment to harassers.

  4. Train managers at all levels on sexual harassment issues.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Retaliating swiftly against employees who bring out charges of harassment is not a recommended way to protect itself against sexual harassment charges instead of this company should take appropriate steps in favor of that employee who brings out these complaints.

Multiple choice geography for a safer future disaster and management disaster management and precautionary measures disaster management: responding to disasters man made disaster tsunami and floods

Mitigation is included in which of the following areas of risk management?

  1. Risk identification

  2. Risk reduction

  3. Recovery

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Disaster risk reduction includes disciplines like disaster management, disaster mitigation and disaster preparedness, but DRR is also part of sustainable development. In order for development activities to be sustainable they must also reduce disaster risk. On the other hand, unsound development policies will increase disaster risk - and disaster losses. Thus, DRR involves every part of society, every part of government, and every part of the professional and private sector

Multiple choice geography for a safer future disaster and management disaster management and precautionary measures disaster management: responding to disasters man made disaster tsunami and floods

Which of the following is not one of the four phases of Comprehensive Emergency Management?

  1. Preparedness

  2. Risk Management

  3. Response

  4. Recovery
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
  • The four phases of Comprehensive Emergency management are Mitigation, Preparation, Response and Recovery. 
  • Mitigation i.e preventing future emergencies or minimizing their effects and it includes any activities that prevent an emergency, reduce the chance of an emergency happening, or reducing the damaging effects of unavoidable emergencies. 
  • The preparation phase is centred around arranging or developing a plan to approach events after the incident crops up. Unlike prevention and preparation phase, response is undertaken during a disaster situation. 
  • The aim of the response procedures is to save lives, reduce victim's suffering and alleviate economical losses. Crucial for this phase is the implementation of the plans formulated and prepared prior to the event in the preparation phase. 
  • During a recovery phase, which takes place after an incident had occurred, affected community is assisted in restoration of concerned area.
Multiple choice geography for a safer future disaster and management disaster management and precautionary measures disaster management: responding to disasters man made disaster tsunami and floods

Training, drills and exercises, plan development, and other such activities are part of which of the following steps of disaster management?

  1. Response

  2. Preparedness

  3. Recovery

  4. Mitigation
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Preparedness is an understanding of the geographic area affected, along with the intensity and frequency of different hazard events, is critical for planning evacuation routes, creating shelters, and running preparedness drills. Providing a measure of the impact of different hazard events—potential number of damaged buildings, fatalities and injuries, secondary hazards—makes it possible to establish detailed and realistic plans for better response to disasters, Training, drills and exercises, plan development, which can ultimately reduce the severity of adverse natural events.

Multiple choice geography for a safer future disaster and management disaster management and precautionary measures disaster management: responding to disasters man made disaster tsunami and floods

The measures taken to avoid accidents are called _________.

  1. disciplinary measures

  2. life jacket

  3. environmental measures

  4. safety measures
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Safety measures are proactive steps or protocols implemented to prevent accidents and minimize risks in various environments.

Multiple choice social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

Critical incident method is a method of _____________.

  1. Performance appraisal

  2. Promotion

  3. Laws

  4. Market
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The critical incident method involves documenting specific examples of employee behavior that lead to either success or failure in their roles. This data is used to evaluate performance.

Multiple choice geography for a safer future disaster and management disaster management and precautionary measures disaster management: responding to disasters man made disaster tsunami and floods

Prevention, mitigation, transfer, and financing are included under which of the following aspects of risk management?

  1. Risk identification

  2. Risk reduction

  3. Adverse event management

  4. Recovery
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Disaster risk management involves activities related to prevention i.e relocating exposed people and assets away from a hazard area, mitigation i.e. preventing future emergencies or minimizing their effects for instance constructing flood defences, planting trees to stabilize slopes and implementing strict land use and building construction codes, transfer i.e. it is the process of formally or informally shifting the financial consequences of particular risks from one party to another whereby a household, community, enterprise or state authority will obtain resources from the other party after a disaster occurs, financing i.e. Disaster risk analysis was born out of the financial and insurance sector's need to quantify the risk of comparatively rare high-impact natural hazard events.

Multiple choice geography disaster management: responding to disasters disaster and management disaster management and precautionary measures for a safer future man made disaster tsunami and floods

Which of the following does not include the task of disaster management?

  1. Assess secondary social problems such as health epidemics, displaced persons

  2. Counsel those who have suffered trauma and bereavement

  3. Control rumors, provide accurate information

  4. Provide security; prevent looting, protect person and property
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Disaster management is very important to survive in case of natural or man-made disaster. Disaster management activities are aimed to minimize loss of life and damage in the event of disaster. Disaster management forces can help by removing people and property from a threatened location and by facilitating timely and effective rescue, relief and rehabilitation at the place of disaster thereby reducing loss of property, protecting people, but it does not provide further counselling to the people who have suffered trauma and bereavement.

Multiple choice geography disaster management: responding to disasters disaster and management disaster management and precautionary measures for a safer future man made disaster tsunami and floods

Hazard and vulnerability studies are included under which of the following aspects of risk management?

  1. Risk identification

  2. Risk reduction

  3. Adverse event management

  4. Recovery
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Risk identification process involves activities related to hazard identification i.e to identify location, nature, intensity and likelihood (probability or frequency) of a threat and vulnerability analysis  to determine the existence and degree of vulnerabilities and exposure to a threat. Vulnerability is a set of prevailing or consequential conditions arising from various physical, social, economic and environmental factors which increase the susceptibility of a community to the  impact of hazards.

Multiple choice business studies tourism development in rajasthan tourism and transportation transportation in rajasthan tour and travel management

Which of the following is/are road safety measures that are to be followed?

  1. Follow traffic rules

  2. Use zebra crossing while crossing the road

  3. Do not drive after consuming liquor

  4. All of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Road safety measures are the methods and measures used to prevent road users from being killed or seriously injured. Some of the road safety measures include: following traffic rules, using zebra crossing while crossing the road, avoiding driving after drinking, wearing helmet and seat belts, maintaining speed limit etc.

Multiple choice social studies importance of transport system importance of transportation system introduction to transport and communication transportation services language, writing and great books

What was the theme of road safety week 2017?

  1. Walk for Road Safety

  2. Your safety, secures your family-Be cautious on Roads

  3. Stay Alive, dont drink and drive

  4. Build a Safety Culture for Sustainable Supply Chain
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The first week of every year, the Road Transport departments all over the country celebrate Road Safety Week. On this occasion, they give guidelines to people to follow traffic rules. The theme for road safety week 2017 was “Your safety, secures your family-Be cautious on Roads”.

Multiple choice business organisation importance of management introduction and characteristics of management meaning, nature and importance of management basics of management

A risk management system should mean that a company will ____________________.

  1. Avoid all risks

  2. Reject any attempt to categories risk

  3. Consider the likelihood of risks materializing

  4. Establish risk-avoiding controls irrespective of their costs
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A risk management system should mean that a company will consider the likelihood of risks materializing. Risk management system deals with identifying and controlling threats to an organization's earnings.

Multiple choice physics electrical circuits domestic electric circuits and safety precautions domestic and commercial circuit electric power

The most important safety method used for protecting home appliances from short circuiting or overloading is

  1. earthing.

  2. use of fuse.

  3. use of stabilizers.

  4. use of electric meter.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Answer is B

Fuses are safety devices that are to be built into our electrical system. If there were no fuses and we operated too many appliances on a single circuit, the cable carrying the power for that circuit would get extremely hot, short circuit, and possibly start a fire. To prevent electrical overloads, fuses are designed to trip or blow, stopping the flow of current to the overloaded cable.

Fuse is a piece of wire of a material with a very low melting point. When a high current flow through the circuit due to overloading or short circuit, the wires gets heated and melts. As a result, the circuit is broken and current stops flowing.

The fuse must always be connected to the mains and it must be of correct value. For example, a 15-ampere fuse should trip when the current through it exceeds 15 amperes. A 20-ampere fuse should blow when the current through it exceeds 20 amps.

Multiple choice evs how to save fuel define fossil fuels conservation of fuels reason for finishing of materials (resources) fuel and conservation

Which of the following is not a tip of PCRA?

  1. Drive at a constant and moderate speed as far as possible.

  2. Ensure correct tyre pressure.

  3. Ensure regular maintenance of the vehicle.

  4. None of above.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

In India, the Petroleum Conservation Research Association(PCRA) advises people how to save petrol/diesel while driving. Their tips include driving at a constant and moderate speed as far as possible, switching off the engine at traffic lights or at a place where you have to wait, ensuring correct tyre pressure, ensuring regular maintenance of the vehicle, etc.