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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 civics road safety rules and regulations road safety education general awareness road safety

Which of the following is/are the preventive measures for road accidents?

  1. Helmets for two-wheeler riders

  2. Sitting and enforcing speed limit

  3. Sitting and enforcing alcohol limit

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

Following is/are the preventive measures for road accidents:-

  • Helmets for two-wheeler riders
  • Sitting and enforcing speed limit
  • Sitting and enforcing alcohol limit

Multiple choice civics general awareness road safety education road safety rules and regulations road safety

An ideal road safety education programme should be able to-
I) Inculcate a sense of road discipline in the mind of every road user
II) Develop a willful respect for road rules
III) Help a road user tide over any adverse situation on roads
IV) Instill in the minds of road users a sense of fellow feeling

  1. Only I

  2. Only I and II

  3. Only III and IV

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

An ideal road safety education programme should be able to-
I) Inculcate a sense of road discipline in the mind of every road user.
II) Develop a willful respect for road rules.
III) Help a road user tide over any adverse situation on roads.
IV) Instill in the minds of road users a sense of fellow feeling.

Multiple choice common laboratory equipments common laboratory apparatus and equipments laboratory equipments know about some common gases chemistry

Which of the following is considered to be a dangerous procedure in the laboratory setting?

  1. Pouring all liquids especially acids and bases. over the sink

  2. Wearing goggles

  3. Pushing glass tubing. thermometers. or glass thistle tubes through a rubber cork

  4. Pointing the mouth of a test tube that is being heated away from you and others

  5. Knowing where the fire extinguisher and eyewash stations are located
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The following is considered to be a dangerous procedure in the laboratory setting
Pushing glass tubing. thermometers. or glass thistle tubes through a rubber cork
During the process, the glass may break and injure our hands.

Multiple choice geography disaster management: responding to disasters hazards and types of hazards introduction to disaster hazards

Hazard ______.

  1. is a dangerous event

  2. causes injury, loss of life

  3. cause damage to property

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

All of these


A dangerous event that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, as well as damage and loss to property, infrastructure, livelihoods and services, social and economic disruption and, environmental damage is known as a hazard. A hazard is any source of potential damage, harm or adverse health effects on something or someone. 

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.