OSHA History
This is the year of the passage by the US Congress of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
What is 1970?
Posters and directions in a variety of languages and graphics are used to provide this for employees.
What is Hazard Communication?
What is the weight restriction for sitting on top of a ladder.
None, you don't sit on the top of a ladder.
This is a movable, mechanical structure used to support a platform, material handling components and/or other attachments on a unit.
What is a boom?
This is the 360-degree safety space cushion around your vehicle.
What is Safety Perimeter?
Since the enactment of OSHA, this is the percentage of occupational deaths that have been reduced.
What is 60%?
These provide vital information regarding the chemicals in commercial products at the workplace, and the best solution for responding to an exposure to material hazards.
What are Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)?
The number of points of contact that are needed when climbing a ladder.
What is 3?
Vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight rating greater than or equal to this require a CDL.
What is 26,001 lbs?
OSHA inspectors may be required by an employer to provide one of these, prior to conducting an inspection.
What is a search warrant?
Since the enactment of OSHA regulations, this is the percentage of occupational injuries that have been reduced.
What is 40%?
Sometimes conducted one-on-one or in groups, this is part of communication and education about workplace safety and hazards.
What is training?
The three things to check prior to getting onto a ladder are.
What are weight restrictions, braces are locked, cleats are flat, no damage to the ladder, long enough ladder for the job, conductivity?
Aerial lift vehicles should always be operated on a slope less than or equal to this to avoid overturning.
What is 5 degrees?
This is the minimum amount of water to cause hydroplaning.
What is 1/4"?
OSHA was signed into law by this US President on December 19, 1970.
Who is Richard M. Nixon?
Following an inspection and citations by an OSHA Compliance officer, this must be posted in the workplace near where the violation(s) occurred.
What is an OSHA citation?
Rungs of a portable or fixed ladder must be spaced no less than ___________ inches apart and no more than __________ inches apart.
What is 10 and 14?
These are the (3) common causes for aerial lift accidents.
What are stability problems, operator error, Violating OSHA regulations?
Process for using a fire extinguisher.
What is Pull the pin, aim low at the base of the flames, squeeze the handle, sweep side to side?
This federal department, under the executive branch of government, oversees the OSHA administration.
What is the department of labor?
This safety precaution, using a tag, box or lock on equipment or a power source; communicates to employees that work is being performed and to avoid the equipment and power source.
What is lock out/tag out?
I have a 20 foot ladder leaned against a 16ft high building, how far should the base of the ladder be from the base of the building?
What is 4 feet?
Operational hazards of an aerial lift include these.
What are Electrocution, injuries, improper traffic control.
The NFPA 70E is.
What is the standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace?