ATI RN
Environmental and Occupational Health Questions
Question 1 of 5
What theory explains how we can motivate safe behaviour by recognizing that people are motivated by different things?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Self-determination theory explains motivation by emphasizing intrinsic factors such as autonomy, competence, and relatedness. This theory acknowledges individual differences in motivation, making it suitable for encouraging safe behavior. Reinforcement theory (A) focuses on rewards and punishments, not individual motivations. Goal-setting theory (B) emphasizes setting specific goals. Transformational leadership theory (D) focuses on inspiring and transforming followers, not individual motivations for safe behavior. Thus, C is correct as it aligns with understanding individual motivations for safety.
Question 2 of 5
According to research, who will have the most influence on new oil workers' attitudes about the safety climate on the rig?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The correct answer is C: their immediate supervisor. Immediate supervisors have direct interactions with new oil workers, shaping their attitudes the most. They provide guidance, feedback, and support, influencing workers' perception of safety climate. Senior management (A) may set policies but have limited daily interactions. Coworkers (B) can influence attitudes, but supervisors have more direct authority. The Alberta Workers' Compensation Board (D) is an external regulatory body and has less influence on day-to-day attitudes.
Question 3 of 5
Which statement best describes the relationship between the environment and health?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: A healthy environment increases quality of life and years of healthy living. Accumulated evidence shows that the environmental changes of the past few decades have profoundly influenced the status of public health. Globally, environmental factors contribute to nearly 25% of all deaths and increase disease burden (World Health Organization, 2016). The safety, beauty, and life-sustaining capacity of the physical environment are unquestionably of global consequence.
Question 4 of 5
Which statement best describes why environmental health is more challenging than other variables related to an individual's health?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Intervening to improve environmental conditions requires basic social, economic, and political changes. Aggregates must work together to create such change. The other responses do not address the multiple dimensions that must be impacted in order to impact change within environmental health.
Question 5 of 5
What would be an appropriate term for intoxicated drivers, secondhand smoke, urban crowding, noise, and mechanization?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: The built environment is the connection between people, communities, and their surrounding environments that affect health habits and behaviors, interpersonal relationships, cultural values, and customs. Most people live within areas that require almost daily contact with potential health risks and threats, such as intoxicated or impaired drivers, secondhand smoke, urban crowding, noise exposure, unabated traffic, and the stress of increased mechanization.