Which of the following is an action employers must take when providing construction workers with fall protection?
a.
assess strength and structural integrity of walking and working surfaces on a work site.
b.
call attention to unique fall hazards, such as open floor holes or shafts, riser penetrations and skylights.
c.
eliminate general fall prevention training.
d.
rarely inspect fall protection equipment.

Which of the following is false regarding the links between jit and quality? a. jit increases the cost of obtaining good quality. b. as quality improves, fewer inventory buffers are needed; in turn, jit performs better. c. jit reduces the number of potential sources of error by shrinking queues and lead times. d. inventory hides bad quality; jit immediately exposes it. e. if consistent quality exists, jit allows firms to reduce all costs associated with inventory.

Aquatic marine stores company manufactures special metallic materials and decorative fittings for luxury yachts that require highly skilled labor. aquatic uses standard costs to prepare its flexible budget. for the first quarter of the year, direct materials and direct labor standards for one of their popular products were as follows: direct materials: 3 pounds per unit; $ 6 per pound direct labor: 4 hours per unit; $ 19 per hour during the first quarter, aquatic produced 5 comma 000 units of this product. actual direct materials and direct labor costs were $ 65 comma 000 and $ 330 comma 000, respectively. for the purpose of preparing the flexible budget, calculate the total standard direct materials cost at a production volume of 5 comma 000 units.

Tariffs and quotas are often imposed when a government is more responsive to interests, and the benefits of those trade restrictions are often ; concentrated producer; widely dispersed consumer; widely dispersed consumer; concentrated