Construction
This is the leading cause of fatalities in the construction industry, prompting OSHA to strictly mandate guardrails, safety nets, or personal fall arrest systems.
What are falls?
This OSHA standard requires employers to protect healthcare workers from diseases spread by needles and bodily fluids.
What is the Bloodborne Pathogens standard?
This critical safety procedure, often abbreviated as LOTO, ensures that dangerous machines are properly shut off and cannot be accidentally restarted during maintenance.
What is Lockout/Tagout?
OSHA requires salon workers to promptly sweep up dropped hair clippings and clean up spilled water to prevent these common workplace accidents.
What are slips and falls?
Because wet and greasy floors are constant hazards in commercial kitchens, OSHA strongly recommends that all staff wear this specific type of footwear.
What are slip-resistant shoes?
Before digging a trench, construction workers must call 811 to ensure they don't strike these underground hazards.
What are utility lines?
In a hospital or clinical setting, this common acronym refers to the gloves, gowns, and masks required by OSHA to protect workers.
What is PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)?
To protect factory workers from flying metal shavings or sparks, OSHA mandates this specific type of eye protection featuring side shields.
What are safety glasses (or safety goggles)?
Cosmetologists are at high risk for these injuries, abbreviated MSDs, due to standing for long hours and making repetitive motions with shears.
What are Musculoskeletal Disorders?
To prevent catastrophic flare-ups and severe burns, OSHA safety guidelines stress that workers must never introduce this common liquid into a hot deep fryer.
What is water?
OSHA requires this specific type of protective headgear to be worn whenever there is a risk of falling objects or electrical shock on a job site.
What is a hard hat?
OSHA mandates that puncture-resistant and leak-proof containers be used for the immediate disposal of these medical instruments.
What are sharps (or needles)?
OSHA requires physical barriers, known by this term, to protect workers' hands and bodies from the moving parts of heavy manufacturing machinery.
What is machine guarding?
Salon owners must keep an accessible binder of these 16-section documents so stylists know the chemical hazards of the hair colors and developers they use.
What are Safety Data Sheets (SDS)?
To protect prep cooks from severe lacerations while chopping or using a mandoline, employers should provide these specialized protective garments.
What are cut-resistant gloves?
This OSHA standard, heavily enforced in construction, governs the safe erection, use, and weight limits of temporary elevated work platforms.
What is the Scaffolding standard?
OSHA requires healthcare facilities to maintain this written plan to ensure workers know exactly how to safely evacuate patients during a fire or emergency.
What is an Emergency Action Plan (EAP)?
Industrial noise levels above this specific decibel limit over an 8-hour shift require an employer to implement a formal hearing conservation program.
What is 85 decibels?
Because nail technicians use strong acrylic liquids and stylists use chemical straighteners, salons must maintain proper systems for this to ensure safe indoor air quality.
What is ventilation (or local exhaust)?
Commercial kitchens must regularly inspect and clean these overhead systems to prevent grease fires and protect workers from inhaling hazardous smoke and carbon monoxide.
What are exhaust hoods (or ventilation systems)?
This specific clause of the OSH Act requires employers to provide a workplace free from recognized serious hazards, even if a specific written standard doesn't exist.
What is the General Duty Clause?
To prevent musculoskeletal disorders, OSHA provides specialized guidelines for this practice, focusing on the mechanical lifting and safe physical transfer of patients.
What is safe patient handling (or ergonomics)?
OSHA's strict standard for these industrial vehicles requires operators to be trained, tested, and evaluated at least once every three years.
What are powered industrial trucks (or forklifts)?
If a barber or esthetician uses straight razors, lancets, or microblading tools, OSHA mandates that the used blades be immediately discarded into these puncture-resistant boxes.
What are sharps containers?
OSHA requires that heavy, dangerous kitchen equipment—like commercial meat slicers or industrial mixers—be completely unplugged and locked out before employees begin this routine task.
What is cleaning (or maintenance)?