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| What is meant by stating that safety is a broad, multidisciplinary topic? |
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| This means that people have different definitions of safety for themselves and each person’s is different. |
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| 2. Briefly describe the domino theory of accident causation and its origins, including the two main principles of this theory? |
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| The domino theory was produced by Heinrich and has two central points. One factor leads to another to the next and if you remove a domino (central factor) then the consequences or accidents are less severe. |
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| What are the five factors in the sequence that lead to an accident in the domino theory of accident causation? |
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| Social Environment> Poor Character Traits> Unsafe Acts/ Conditions> Accident> Injury |
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| Briefly describe the human factors theory of accident causation. |
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| The human factor theory is that no one model or theory can explain all accidents. Human error is the difference between desired and actual performance. |
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| What are the three broad factors that lead to human error in the human factors theory? |
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| Inappropriate response (lapse of judgment), inappropriate activity (underestimated risk or perform an activity out of skill set) and overload conditions (imbalance between capacity and system demand) are factors that lead to human error. |
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| What is the main difference between an inappropriate activity and an inappropriate response? |
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| Under what condition(s) do we accept risk? |
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| If it is worth it, if we don’t know it is there and if they’re acceptably low. |
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| What is the relationship between perceived risk, acceptable risk, and human behavior? Within this relationship, how does the objective risk change? |
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| Objective risk never changes. Acceptable risk is dependant on three conditions that we accept risk. Perceived risk is unknown risk. Human behavior is an organizational factor that as to do with risk tolerance per person. |
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| What is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States among small children? |
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| What is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States among young adults? |
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| What is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States among adults? |
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| What is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States among the elderly? |
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| Describe some of the adverse effects of child labor. |
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Definition
| Bodies get worn out at a young age, no schooling and equipment is not made for them. |
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| 12. List some reasons why young workers are at higher risk for accidents and injuries. Identify several risk factors. |
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| Equipment, unsafe environment, less overall knowledge and experience. |
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| Briefly describe the difference between hostile and instrumental aggression. |
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| Instrumental aggression is intent to win and hurt other person but hostile is intent to harm. |
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| What is a frustration riot? |
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| Caused by disgruntled fans. Want to retaliate for illegitimate or unacceptable action. |
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| Opportunity to engage in threatening or destructive acts. Game becomes secondary. Contagion requires a leader. Convergence is due to individual. |
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| What is a remonstrance riot? |
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| Ideological protest. Carefully planned and organized. Non-game related issue that is present. |
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| With who does a confrontational riot occur? |
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| More likely to occur between team fans. |
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| Briefly describe the typical rioter at a sporting event. |
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| Typical rioters are young males who are poorly educated and unemployed. |
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| What are the major challenges that women face working in the home? |
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| Kids are a distraction, multiple roles, an increase likelihood of getting sick |
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| What are the physical stressors for women in the workplace? Are these different for males? |
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| Job Control, Structure of women’s work, multiple roles, violence, equipment, harassment, and discrimination. Yes they are different than males. |
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| Briefly describe some of the historical placement patterns of minority workers? |
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| Minorities were treated badly and they were given dangerous jobs with no care. Also, because they were migrant minority workers they were cared even less about. |
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| What are some of the health issues attributed to job loss among minorities? |
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| When a minority loses a job, it is hard for them to continue living a safe life and they are unable to get medicine and everyday food. |
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| Briefly describe the difference between motivation and movement. |
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Definition
| Herzberg set out a key difference between 'movement' and 'motivation'. He said that you can get employs to move by 'kicks in the ass' - i.e. punishments and rewards e.g. penalties for poor work and high pay for good work. |
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| Briefly explain the three components of Vroom’s theory and how they work to increase motivation? |
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| Assumes that behavior results from conscious choices among alternatives whose purpose it is to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. Expectancy, instrumentality and valence. Valence refers to the emotional orientations people hold with respect to outcomes. Expectancy is the expectancy or level of confidence about what they are capable of doing. Instrumentality is the perception of employers whether or not they will actually get what they desire even if it has been promised by a manager. |
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| Why alpine climbers would choose to leave injured persons on a mountain to die during a climb? |
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| They are trying to summit before the timer goes off cause if not, they wouldn’t make it to the top. |
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