JHSC Part One: Hazard recognition and categories

All 15 questions in this test

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1. Workplace stress, violence and harassment are examples of which hazard category?

   1. Chemical
   2. Safety
   3. Physical hazard
   4. Psychosocial

2. Which list matches the six hazard categories in Part One training?

   1. Office, warehouse, factory, retail, outdoor and remote work hazards
   2. Minor, moderate, major, severe, critical and fatal hazards
   3. Physical, chemical, biological, musculoskeletal, psychosocial, safety
   4. Visible, invisible, loud, quiet, hot and cold hazards only

3. Repetitive movements and a poorly set-up workstation are which kind of hazard?

   1. Biological
   2. Musculoskeletal
   3. Safety
   4. Chemical

4. Noise and vibration belong to which hazard category?

   1. Chemical
   2. Psychosocial
   3. Biological
   4. Physical

5. A health effect that only shows up many years after a worker was exposed is described as what?

   1. Latent
   2. Immediate
   3. Local
   4. Acute

6. What does the acronym RACE stand for in JHSC training?

   1. Review, approve, certify and enforce rules
   2. Report, act, check and escalate quickly
   3. Recognize, assess, control and evaluate
   4. Rescue, alert, contain and extinguish fires

7. Which is the most common workplace definition of a hazard?

   1. Any task that takes more than one hour
   2. Any accident that has already happened
   3. Any source of potential damage or harm
   4. Any rule the employer has written down

8. Which list gives the four routes of entry taught in Part One?

   1. Heating, cooling, mixing and storing
   2. Inhalation, absorption, ingestion and injection
   3. Walking, lifting, bending, reaching and carrying
   4. Hearing, seeing, smelling and touching only

9. Which five factors can contribute to a health and safety hazard?

   1. Mornings, evenings, weekends, holidays and nights
   2. Managers, unions, inspectors, lawyers and insurers
   3. Money, time, weather, traffic and paperwork, nothing else
   4. People, equipment, materials, environment and process

10. Once a chemical enters the bloodstream, where can it cause harm?

    1. Nowhere, since blood removes it
    2. Only in the lungs, in every case
    3. In organs far from where it entered
    4. Only at the exact point where it entered

11. Mould and bacteria in a workplace are which kind of hazard?

    1. Musculoskeletal
    2. Psychosocial
    3. Biological
    4. Physical

12. Under the OHSA, what is an occupational illness?

    1. A condition caused by workplace exposure to an agent that impairs health
    2. Any injury from a slip or fall that happens in the parking lot
    3. Any stress caused by commuting to work in heavy traffic
    4. Any cold or flu that a worker happens to catch during the winter months

13. An effect that develops after repeated exposure over a long time is called what?

    1. Local
    2. Acute only
    3. Sudden
    4. Chronic

14. What is the most common way workplace chemicals enter the body?

    1. Swallowing them by mistake
    2. Absorption through the eyes
    3. Inhalation (breathing)
    4. Injection through the skin

15. A nurse is pricked by a used needle. Which route of entry is this?

    1. Injection
    2. Absorption
    3. Ingestion
    4. Inhalation