Governing Agencies
This federal agency was founded in 1971 to protect workers from injury, illness, and death.
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
This is the height at which fall protection is required for most construction work?
What is 6'?
This piece of PPE protects your head from falling objects and overhead hazards.
What is a hardhat?
Workers are not allowed to stand on the top two rungs of this ladder type to avoid falling.
What is A-Frame ladder?
Before using any tool, workers must do this to ensure it is in good working condition.
What is inspection?
This state level program for North Carolina, can enforce their own workplace safety rules as long as they are at least as strict as federal OSHA.
What is the NC Dept of Labor?
A floor hole cover must be secured and labeled with this four letter word.
What is HOLE?
In construction, we use this term to refer to the color that your clothing should be while working on site.
What is high-viz?
Extension ladders must extend this many feet above the working surface.
What is 3'?
Workers must not remove these safety devices typically installed on cutting tools, such as circular saws and grinders.
What are guards?
This agency regulates environmental hazards like chemicals, spills, and hazardous waste.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
This is the height that the top rail of a guardrail must be, +/- 3.
What is 42"?
Name a form of eye protection other than safety glasses to protect the face and eyes from dust, debris, and flying particles.
What are goggles or face shield?
This type of working platform ladder must be locked at all times and you must never move it while someone is on it.
What is Baker's Scaffold?
Workers must avoid this area when working around heavy equipment and truck drivers, to avoid being struck.
What is blind spot?
This "catch all" standard allows OSHA to cite employers for hazards that are recognized and have a feasible way to be eliminated.
What is the General Duty Clause?
A single anchor point must rated to withstand this much weight in a fall protection system.
What is 5,000lbs?
This PPE is required anywhere that noise levels reach 85 decibels or higher.
What is hearing protection? (ear plugs, ear muffs)
This must be visible and in tact on all the ladder types and if it is not legible, the ladder must be taken out of service.
What are labels/stickers?
This electrical safety device must always be used with power tools to prevent electrical shock in wet or outdoor conditions.
What are GFCIs? Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter
OSHA may reference this private standards organization as evidence of known safe practice and cite employers under the general duty clause.
What is the American National Standards Institute?
Workers must be tied off while working in these Mobile Elevated Work Platforms.
What are scissor lifts and boom lifts?
This PPE prevents inhalation of harmful dusts, vapors, or fumes when engineering controls are not enough.
What is a respirator?
This kind of surface is required for setting up any kind of ladder.
When backing trucks up and reversing equipment around the jobsite, it is important to use this person to help ensure the area is clear of people and materials.
What is a spotter?