injury prevention programs Correct Answer: dec employer costs; collaborative plan to improve workplace safety; characteristics include: ongoing mgmt
... [Show More] support, supervisory support, employee participation, reinforcement of program, corporate plan, injury prevention team, training for risk factors, ergonomic eval, med mgmt strategies
OSHA Correct Answer: ensures safe and healthful working conditions by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education, and assistance; info about workplace safety and health topics including lifting and ergonomics
NIOSH- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Correct Answer: federal agency (part of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness
O*Net- Occupational Information Info Network Correct Answer: database of requirements, worker attribute, and other helpful info
DOT- Dictionary of Occupational Titles Correct Answer: replaced by O*Net, similar purpose; defines physical demands of work and strength/freq needed for physical tasks
Back and Neck Rehab Training Correct Answer: provides strategies focused on improving fitness, job comfort, and workplace safety for individuals or groups of workers to either prevent injury or retrain after
Ergonomic risk factors Correct Answer: forceful exertions, repetition, awkward or static posturing, contact stress, excessive vibration, cold temp, prolonged contact stress, faulty body mechanics
environmental fit Correct Answer: environment redesign through work station mod, tool access and fit mod, proper material handling, lighting, temp change
cognitive-behavioral strategies Correct Answer: effective with worker rehab; uses positive reinforcement, progressive relaxation, biofeedback, etc)
symptom magnification Correct Answer: manipulating society with display of symptoms; other terms consistency of effort, sincerity of effort, maximum voluntary effort
malingering Correct Answer: deliberate faking of symptoms and disability to avoid work or responsibility
refugee Correct Answer: unconscious; use symptoms to escape an unresolvable conflict
symptom misinterpreter Correct Answer: unconscious; responds to physical changes in an extreme manner, may have unrealistic beliefs about the body
game player Correct Answer: unconscious; attempts to convince others the reality of symptoms for positive gain
identified patient Correct Answer: unconscious; assumes the pt role as lifestyle
symptom minimizer Correct Answer: ct who keeps symptoms hidden
job demands analysis Correct Answer: define the demands of a job and involves questionnaires, interviews, observations, and formal assessments completed in the real work environ; many FCEs include this
physical demands of work (DOT) Correct Answer: lifting, standing, walking, sitting, carrying, pushing, pulling, climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, handling, fingering, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing
sedentary work Correct Answer: 10 lb force occasionally; sitting most of the time
light work Correct Answer: 20 lb force occasionally, as much as 10 lb force freq; criteria: walking or standing to significanr deg, constant pushing and pulling of negligle weight at production speed; sitting most of time but pushing/pulling controls [Show Less]