1. List three things that patients can do to help reduce chances of medical errors.



2. List three things that could make a health science workplace unsafe.


3. Why do you think that safety standards require employees to know all the potentially dangerous chemicals in an area, even if their jobs do not require use of the chemicals?


4. Imagine that a health care employee was injured at work and reported the injury to OSHA because he or she felt that the situation was unsafe. However, upon investigating, OSHA discovered that the employee was using the equipment unsafely and had not attended the employer-provided training on how to use the machinery. What do you think the consequences would be for the health care facility in this case?


5. Why do you think that employee theft is such a serious problem in medical facilities?


6. Describe a situation where a health care employee should not try and put out a fire in a health care facility.