One of the Challenges in the Acceptable Risk Approach to Workplace

question 35

Multiple Choice

One of the challenges in the acceptable risk approach to workplace health and safety is that it:

• A)is a liberal approach to workplace health and safety that allows employees to recognize the risk they are likely to face.
• B)involves the determination of "relative risks," the calculation of which is a complicated process and not always reliable.
• C)assumes an equivalency between workplace risks and other types of risks when there are significant differences between them.
• D)It treats health and safety merely as an instrumental value and denies its intrinsic value.

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Definitions:

Public Health System

An organized effort by society, primarily through public institutions, to improve, protect, and promote health and prevent illness and injury.

Racial Disparities

Differences in treatment, opportunities, and outcomes between racial groups, often reflecting systemic inequality and injustice.

Economic Differences

Variations in wealth, income, and economic status among individuals, groups, or countries, leading to disparities in living standards and access to resources.

Gender Inequalities

involve the disparate treatment and opportunities afforded to individuals based on their gender, manifesting in various social, economic, political, and cultural contexts.