Title: Ch. 1.2.1 Safety Quiz
Course: Lab Safety > Section: Day 1

Adapted from Laboratory Safety by Hill and Finster, 2010 by Wiley

Q: Laboratory incidents most commonly
- have one or more preventable causes
- are unavoidable even with extensive safety training
- are called "accidents" because they mostly occur for random reasons
- do not have the adverse effects of injury or damage
A: have one or more preventable causes

Q: What kinds of episodes can be informative with regard to learning about safety?
- incidents that caused harm
- incidents that caused lab damage, but no physical injuries to personnel
- "neat miss" episodes that did not cause harm
- All of the above
A: All of the above

Q: What is the least important question to answer when investigating an incident?
- How did the incident occur?
- What happened?
- Who caused the incident?
- Why did the incident occur?
A: Who caused the incident?

Q: Which incidents should be reported as "lab accidents"?
- incidents that did not cause harm or damage, but easily could have
- incidents that caused damage but no harm
- incidents that caused harm and damage
- all of the above
A: all of the above

Q: In reviewing incidents, it is usually discovered that
- there is one main cause of the incident
- there are many causes for an incident and prevention of any single cause might have prevented the incident
- there are many causes for an incident and it would have been necessary to eliminate all of the causes in order to have prevented the incident
- inexperienced workers caused the incident
A: there are many causes for an incident and prevention of any single cause might have prevented the incident

Q: In doing an incident analysis, which of the following step(s) in RAMP are commonly not considered carefully enough?  Select all that apply.
- Recognize hazards
- Assess the risks of the hazards
- Minimize the risks of the hazards
- Prepare for emergencies
A: Recognize hazards; Assess the risks of the hazards; Minimize the risks of the hazards; Prepare for emergencies