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Supervisor Safety Course

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This quiz has a combination of multiple choice and fill in the blanks. For each of the following multiple choice quiz questions there is only one correct answer.

This is an open book quiz. Do not rush through this; you are not being evaluated on how fast you complete these questions.

If the meaning of a question is unclear or you are unsure of what is being asked, see the facilitator for help.

A combination score of 75% is required for successful completion of this course.

1. Who is responsible for administering and enforcing the Northwest Territories and Nunavut Safety Acts and Occupational Health and Safety Regulations?

a. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

b. Local by-law enforcement agencies

c. Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission (WSCC)

d. Department of Fisheries and Oceans

2. The Safety Acts, Section 4, state the employer has three responsibilities; provide first aid services and maintain the establishment to not endanger persons. What is the third responsibility?

a. Take all reasonable precautions to ensure the health and safety of a person.

b. Take all practicable precautions to protect the workplace.

c. Take reasonable care to protect the worker.

d. Take responsibility for workplace accidents.

3. What are a worker’s duties?

a. Take all reasonable precautions to ensure their and other persons’ safety, and correct unsafe acts.

b. Take reasonable care to ensure their and other persons’ safety, and wear protective articles of clothing of equipment.

c. Take all reasonable precautions to ensure the safety of the employer, and wear protective articles of clothing or equipment.

d. Take all reasonable precautions to ensure their and other persons’ safety, and wear protective articles of clothing or equipment.

4. Where do you find supervisor responsibilities?

a. Safety Acts of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut

b. General Safety Regulations of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut

c. Oil and Gas Occupational Safety and Health Regulations

d. Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System Regulations

5. What is the maximum punishment for a person employed on or in connection with the operation of an establishment?

a. $500,000 fine, 1 year imprisonment, or both

b. $50,000 fine, 6 months’ imprisonment, or both

c. $25,000 fine, 1 month imprisonment, or both

6. To exercise “Due Diligence” as a supervisor, you must take all precautionary measures possible. What are three good reasons to exercise your responsibility as a supervisor?

a. Moral, legal, and personal

b. Moral, legal, and financial

c. Personal, financial, and legal

d. Personal, legal, and loyal

7. What are the three worker rights in the workplace?

a. Right to know, right to participate, and right to work

b. Right to work, right to participate, and right to refuse unsafe work

c. Right to know, right to participate, and right to refuse unsafe work

d. Right to work, right to anticipate, and right to refuse unsafe work

8. When a worker refuses unsafe work, the worker can seek advice from which workplace parties?

a. Supervisor

b. Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee

c. Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission

d. All of the above

9. Who is responsible for the proper instruction of workers under his or her direction and control and for ensuring that their work is performed without undue risk?

a. Supervisor

b. Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee

c. Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission

d. Employer

10. Within what time period must you report an accident of a serious nature to the Chief Safety Officer of the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission?

a. 72 hours

b. 48 hours

c. As soon as reasonably possible

d. Immediately

11. If a supervisor observes an unsafe act, what must they do to prevent the unsafe act from reoccurring?

a. Immediate corrective measures

b. Nothing let the workers correct it themselves.

c. Inform the Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee.

d. Inform the employer of the unsafe act.

12. Who should sign the Company Health and Safety Policy?

a. Workers

b. Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee

c. Highest authority

d. Company Safety Officer

13. Why are safety meetings held?

a. To introduce workers to new workers

b. To prevent future workplace incidents

c. To reinforce unsafe attitudes

d. One way communication from the supervisor to worker

14. What are the three main elements of Hazard Assessment?

a. Hazard detection, hazard reporting, hazard correction

b. Hazard identification, risk assessment, hazard control

c. Hazard identification, hazard reporting, hazard control

d. Risk assessment, risk control, hazard reporting

15. What is the definition of risk?

a. Any situation, thing, or condition that may expose a person to danger of injury or occupational disease.

b. An unplanned event that leads to harm, injury, or financial loss.

c. The chance or probability of a person getting harmed or experiencing an adverse health effect if exposed to a hazard.

d. Immediate and serious effects that cause injury or property damage.

16. What are the five steps in the hazard assessment process?

a. Identify the risk, assess the hazard, develop controls, correct the hazard, and follow up.

b. See the hazard, assess the risk, develop controls, correct the hazard, and move to the next hazard.

c. Identify the hazard, tell the worker, get the worker to correct the hazard, watch the worker, and record the hazard.

d. Identify the hazard, assess the risk, develop hazard controls, implement hazard controls, and monitor/report.

17. When selecting a control to reduce risk, what is the preferred control in the hierarchy?

a. Personal Protective Equipment

b. Substitution

c. Elimination

d. Engineering

e. Administration

18. Identify the three parts of Contract Safety Management.

a. Tender, bidding, and awarding

b. Administration, management, and monitoring

c. Contract clearance, awarding, and payment

d. Administration, completion, and final clearance

19. Before hiring contractors and sub-contractors, what do you need to obtain from the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission?

a. Permission to do work

b. Notice of Project

c. Site inspection for Asbestos

d. Letter of Good Standing

20. Project risk analysis is an important part of any project. There are three risk levels associated with project risk analysis. What is the definition for a high-risk project?

a. Could result in a serious injury or death

b. Could result in a lost time injury

c. Could result in a medical aid or first aid injury

21. Project Safety Plans must be reviewed and updated?

a. When there is a change in scope of work

b. Every 3 years

c. If the Supervisor changes

d. When project carries over to a new fiscal year

e. All of the above

22. What should be included in a worksite safety orientation?

a. Emergency exits

b. Material Safety Data Sheets

c. First Aid Kit

d. All of the above

23. According to the Accident Pyramid, for every major accident there are approximately how many “near misses”?

a. 10

b. 30

c. 600

d. 6,000

24. Why should you investigate “near misses”?

a. To reduce the number of accidents and prevent major losses from occurring

b. To identify how unsafe the workplace is for workers and the employer

c. To keep records for the Workers’ Safety & Compensation Commission (WSCC) on how proactive the company corrects hazards

d. To improve communication between the employer and workers

25. Select the correct definition for “Incident”?

a. An incident that results in injury, damage, or loss

b. An incident that, under slightly different circumstances, could have resulted in injury, damage, or loss

c. An unplanned, undesired event that caused or could have caused injury, damage, or loss

26. What is the timeframe to submit a WSCC: Employer’s Report of Injury?

a. 3 days

b. 48 hours

c. 24 hours

d. Immediately

27. What is the timeframe to submit a WSCC: Workers Report of Injury to the WSCC?

a. 72 hours

b. 48 hours

c. 24 hours

d. As soon as possible

28. What is the purpose of Incident Investigation?

a. To blame a worker for the incident

b. To identify root causes to prevent them from happening again

c. To identify root causes and blame workers for incidents

d. To inform the WSCC an incident occurred

29. Who can participate in Incident Investigations?

a. Joint Occupational Health & Safety Committee

b. Supervisor

c. Skilled workers familiar with the task

d. All of the above

30. What is the purpose of Modified Work Programs?

a. Help workers recover from workplace injuries and safely return to the workforce

b. Prevent workers from reporting injuries to the WSCC

c. Minimize employers’ claim costs

d. None of the above

31. What is the definition of supervisor under the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations?

a. A manager, foreperson, lead hand, or employer

b. A worker responsible for the activities of all workers on a work site

c. An individual who is authorized by an employer to oversee or direct workers.

d. A Joint Occupational Health & Safety Committee member

32. As a supervisor, what penalties or punishment can apply to you?

a. Territorial fines, imprisonment, or both

b. Federal fines, imprisonment, or both

c. Both a and b

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