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Continuing Education — "The Action Level!®"

VOLUME 6(5), May 2009
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene


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CASE STUDIES:

Assessing Outcomes of Industrial Hygiene Graduate Education
Lisa Brosseau and Ann Fredrickson

1. Of the seven groups of skills expected of industrial hygiene
    graduates, which three groups were ranked most highly
    by both employers and graduates?

a. Recognition, evaluation and communication
b. Control, management and recognition
c. Evaluation, recognition and control
d. Recognition, communication and management
2. What types of skills did employers emphasize were important
    in addition to expertise in occupational safety and health?
a. Supervision of people
b. Teamwork and communication
c. Interpretation of data
d. Awareness of diversity in social and
         cultural beliefs
Intercomparison of Instruments Used for Safety and Performance Measurements of Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation Lamps
Nicholas G. Reed, Stephen Wengraitis and David H. Sliney

3. In addition to normal calibration procedures, which type of
    detector most requires an additional correction factor tailored
    specifically for measuring the effective hazard irradiance of
    low-pressure mercury germicidal lamps?

a. narrowband UV-C detectors
b. spectroradiometers
c. broad-band hazard detectors
4. When a detector with a non-ideal cosine response is used
    to directly measure the irradiance of a lamp, the measurement
    error due to the non-ideal cosine response will decrease as
    the distance from the lamp increases. True or False?
True
False
Two-Zone Model Application to Breathing Zone and Area Welding Fume Concentration Data
Fred W. Boelter, Catherine E. Simmons, Laurel Berman and Peter Scheff

5. The best definition for the beta factor is:

a. inner zone or box
b. outer zone or box
c. near field
d. inter zone – purging airflow
6. Inner and outer helmet total particulate differed by a factor of:
a. inner concentration 1/100th outer concentration
b. outer concentration 100 fold inner concentration
c. slightly lower inner concentration
d. concentrations not noted in the study
A New Hand Cooling Device to Enhance Firefighter Heat Strain Recovery
Yang Zhang, Phillip Bishop, Catalina Casaru and J.K. Davis

7. What factors impact the environment inside firefighter's
    protective clothing?

a. Metabolic homeostasis
b. Sweat evaporation
c. Nature of the garment
d. All of the above
8. Advantages inherent in rapidly lowering a firefighter's internal
    temperature would include:
a. quick recovery
b. prolonged work time
c. reduced risks of heat injuries
d. all of the above
Welding Occupations and Mortality from Parkinson's Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases among United States Men, 1985-1999
Meir J. Stampfer

9. Occupational exposure to welding does not increase the risk
    of mortality from Parkinson's disease in younger or
    older men. True or False?

True
False
10. The lower mortality odds for Parkinson's disease among
      welders are most likely explained by:
a. a protective effect of welding for
          Parkinson's disease
b. differences in smoking patterns
c. differences in geographic distribution
d. differences in age distribution
Characterizing the Health and Safety Needs of the Collision Repair Industry
Stephen G. Whittaker and Carolyn Reeb-Whitaker

11. Most shop owners believe that the most effective way to
      protect the health and safety of collision repair workers is
      by the use of engineering controls. True or False?

True
False
12. Disposable latex gloves are the best choice to protect a
      painter's skin against isocyanate exposure when applying
      clear coats. True or False?
True
False
Training Health and Safety Committees to Use Control Banding: Lessons Learned and Opportunities for the United States
Anne L. Bracker, Timothy F. Morse and Nancy J. Simcox

13. Control banding can best be defined as:

a. a machine guarding program
b. a qualitative control-focused risk
          management model
c. a pandemic flu preparedness program
          that involves bird banding and tracking
d. a color-coded "lockout/tagout" system
14. COSHH Essentials' generic control banding model
      uses the combination of a substance's inherent toxicity
      and its exposure potential to determine the desired control
      band for a given task. True or False?
True
False

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