Haz Com
HazCom uses these diamond-shaped visual symbols to quickly communicate chemical hazards.
What are pictograms?
True or False: If a company had more than 10 employees at any time during the previous calendar year, OSHA injury and illness recordkeeping generally applies unless the establishment qualifies for another exemption.
What is True?
These four words make up the acronym GFCI.
What is Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupter?
True or False: An employer generally does not have to pay for ordinary non-specialty safety-toe footwear or non-specialty prescription safety glasses if employees may wear them away from the job.
What is True?
True or False: An unsecured oxygen or acetylene cylinder may be transported lying loose in the bed of a pickup without its protective cap.
What is False?
This document provides workers with detailed information about a hazardous chemical and its hazards.
What is a Safety Data Sheet (SDS)?
OSHA uses this term when another standard, regulation or document is legally included by reference rather than printing all of its text.
What is incorporation by reference?
Exit routes should remain accessible and free of these conditions so employees can safely leave during an emergency.
What are obstructions or impediments?
Making unauthorized holes or modifications to this PPE can reduce its protective performance.
What is a hardhat or helmet?
On a 10B fire extinguisher, the “B” identifies this general type of fire.
What is a flammable-liquid fire?
Continued exposure to this airborne material generated from materials such as concrete can cause silicosis.
What is respirable crystalline silica?
A work-related fatality must generally be reported to OSHA within this many hours.
What is 8 hours?
When no infirmary, clinic, hospital or physician is reasonably accessible to a construction site, OSHA requires this resource to be available at the worksite.
What is a person with a valid first-aid certificate?
As a classroom rule of thumb, if two people standing about two feet apart must shout to communicate, employees should consider this hazard and protection.
What is excessive noise/hearing protection?
Match them: ordinary combustibles, flammable liquids, energized electrical equipment, combustible metals, and cooking oils/fats correspond to these five extinguisher classes.
What are A, B, C, D and K?
These are three major ways hazardous substances can enter the human body.
What are inhalation, ingestion and absorption?
Intentionally disregarding or showing plain indifference to OSHA requirements can result in this type of violation; a hazard with a substantial probability of death or serious physical harm may result in this other classification.
What are willful and serious violations?
In fire-protection terminology, these three letters stand for the connection firefighters use to supply a building's sprinkler or standpipe system.
What is FDC — Fire Department Connection?
When operation of equipment exposes the top of the foot to crushing or impact hazards, this type of protection may be necessary in addition to safety toes.
What is metatarsal protection?
Before filling a portable gasoline container carried in a vehicle, the container should first be removed from the vehicle and placed here.
What is on the ground?
This internationally harmonized chemical-classification system was incorporated into OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard.
What is the Globally Harmonized System, or GHS?
As of 2026, this is the maximum federal OSHA penalty for a willful violation.
What is $165,514 per violation?
When employees must work dangerously close to overhead power lines, these are two major measures that can be taken with the utility before work proceeds.
What are de-energizing and grounding, or relocating/protecting the lines as required?
These are the two major types of atmosphere-supplying respirators recognized by OSHA.
What are supplied-air respirators (SAR) and self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA)?
Name the major characteristics OSHA uses to define a safety can for flammable liquids.
What are an approved closed container of no more than 5 gallons, a flash-arresting screen, spring-closing lid, spout cover, and a design that safely relieves internal pressure under fire exposure?