Safety Statistics
This needs to be reported to OSHA within 8 hours.
What is a work-related fatality?
Hazards at work that can lead to stress, strain, or relationship problems for the worker.
What are Psychosocial Hazards?
This advanced technology can be utilized with existing photos and videos to identify safety hazards and unsafe behaviors.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
What are the sources of workplace violence?
Disputes between coworkers or supervisors that have unresolved arguments, threats or harassment.
At this height OSHA requires fall protection for construction workers
6 feet
This OSHA term includes days away from work, restricted duty, and job transfer.
What is DART?
This can be passive or active, with passive being wishing you were dead and active involving planning suicide.
What is suicidal ideation?
This emerging technology provides a safe environment to demonstrate a realistic simulation of hazardous scenarios.
Virtual Reality (VR)
These three factors explain why workplace violence occurs.
Organizational factors, interpersonal conflict, and personal stressors
This program/procedure is the control of hazardous energy.
Lockout/Tagout
This OSHA rate is calculated by multiplying total recordable cases by 200,000 and dividing by total hours worked.
What is the Total Recordable Case (TRC) rate?
Reasons for the high rate of suicide in construction
Male-dominated industry; Access to lethal means – firearms, tall places, pills; Chronic pain from hard, physical labor; Higher rates of drug and alcohol abuse; Shift work or non-traditional hours; Financial stress
This technology enhances situational awareness by projecting hazard information directly into a worker’s field of view.
What is Augmented Reality (AR)?
The most important way to prevent workplace violence.
Zero tolerance policy for violence
The minimum approach distance for equipment around overhead electrical hazards.
10 feet
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, this was the number of construction fatalities in 2024.
1,032 fatalities
This theory considered suicide as a way of solving problems and adopted a rationalist perspective towards suicide.
What is Escape Theory?
This technology improves safety by enabling remote site monitoring and reducing the need for workers to enter high-risk zones.
Whate are UAVs?
OSHA addresses violence prevention.
Under General Duty clause
A construction supervisor is developing a fall protection plan for roofing work on a low-slope roof. What specific OSHA requirements apply?
Acceptable methods include guardrail systems, safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, or a combination
This term refers to the requirements that determine whether a workplace injury or illness must be recorded.
What are the OSHA general recording criteria?
A state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.
What is a Good Mental Health?
This technology is worn by workers to reduce musculoskeletal injuries by assisting movement and improving posture.
What are exoskeletons?
This motivational theory proposes that rewards are not the sole force behind motivation.
Social Learning Theory
What is the legal requirement for workers to refuse unsafe work, and what protections exist?
Workers may refuse work they reasonably believe poses imminent danger of death or serious injury, and Section 11(c) of the OSH Act protects them from retaliation.