A Common-Sense Look at the Workplace to Find Existing or Potential

question 1

Multiple Choice

A common-sense look at the workplace to find existing or potential hazards for workplace violence is:

• A) worksite analysis.
• B) risk management.
• C) administrative rounds.
• D) hazard prevention and control.

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Definitions:

General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

A theoretical model describing the body's short-term and long-term reactions to stress, characterized by stages of alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.

Hans Selye

A pioneering Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist who first identified and described the concept of stress and its effects on the human body.

General Adaptation Syndrome

A three-stage process (alarm, resistance, exhaustion) that describes the physiological changes the body goes through under stress.

Resistance Phase

The second stage of the general adaptation syndrome, where the body adapts to a stressor and attempts to return to homeostasis.