Chapter Four – ROLES AND PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS FOR SAFETY AND
HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
TRUE OR FALSE: Place T or F in the space provided.
_____1. There are signs that engineering schools are becoming less sensitive
to safety and health issues.
_____2. Engineers can make a significant contribution to safety.
_____3. The National Safety Council is a professional agency that focuses on
safety and health issues.
_____4. Professional certification is an excellent way to establish one’s status
in the field of safety and health.
_____5. There are only a few agencies and organizations that provide updated
training for safety and health managers.
_____6. Colleges across the country have responded to the need for formal
education for safety and health managers.
_____7. In some companies the safety and health manager might be a person
who has other duties.
_____8. The job description of the safety and health manager is simple.
_____9. The most important member of the safety and health team is the
health nurse.
_____10. Professional certification is an excellent way to establish credentials
in the safety, health, and environmental management profession.
_____11. The skills needed by safety professionals are changing as the world
gets 1atter.
MULTIPLE CHOICE: Circle the letter before the correct answer.
1. Which of the following is the most likely candidate to work as safety
engineers?
A. Industrial engineers
B. Chemical engineers
C. Mechanical engineers
D. Electrical engineers
2. The design process includes all the following steps except which of the
following?
A. Synthesis
B. Problem identification
C. Cost
D. Analysis and evaluation
3. Which of the following is the professional field that is concerned with
motion and the processes whereby other energy forms are converted into
motion?
A. Electrical engineering
B. Mechanical engineering
C. Aerospace engineering
D. Nuclear engineering
4. Productivity, quality, cost, and response time are which of the following?
A. Key to productivity
B. Indirect labor
C. Image and service
D. Education and training
5. The safety and health manager must understand the bottom line concerns
of all of the following except:
A. Management
B. Supervisor
C. Employees
D. Vendors
6. Which of the following factors contributes most to changing the role of the
safety professional?
A. Global competition becoming more intense
B. Changing OSHA standards
C. Changing NIOSH standards
D. None of the above
Chapter Four – Roles and Professional Certi*cations for Safety and
1. What types of positions might be included in a modern safety and health
team?
2. Brie1y explain the impact such issues as workers’ compensation and the
environment have had on the commitment of corporate management to
safety and health.
3. What is the diAerence between a staA and a line position?
4. Explain the types of problems modern safety and health managers can
expect to confront in attempting to implement their programs.
5. Brie1y explain what a company must do in order to succeed in today’s
competitive global marketplace.
6. How can safety and health managers use the competitiveness issue to
gain a commitment to their programs?
7. List five diAerent college majors that can lead to a career as a safety and
health manager.
8. Explain the importance of ongoing in-service training for modern safety
and health managers and how to get it.
9. How can safety and health managers become certified in their profession?
10. Name three professional societies a safety and health manager may join.
11. What is meant by the statement “If a physician makes an error he might
harm one person, but an engineer who errs might harm one hundred”?
12. Explain how the design process can aAect safety.
13. What typed of engineers are most likely to work as design engineers?
14. Why is the title safety engineer sometimes a misnomer?
15. What specific strengths might industrial engineers bring to bear as safety
engineers?
16. What specific strengths might chemical engineers bring to the safety and
health team?
17. What specific strengths might chemical engineers bring to the safety and
health team?
18. Describe the job of the industrial hygienist.
19. What is a health physicist?
20. Describe the job of the occupational physician.
21. Describe the job of the occupational health nurse.
22. Explain the concept of risk management.
23. Explain the role of the ergonomist.
24. Explain how to achieve each of the following certifications: Certified
Safety Professional, Certified Industrial Hygienist, and Certified Professional
Ergonomist.
25. Explain how to achieve the following certification: Certified Occupational
Health Nurse-Safety Manager.