Regulatory Compliance
This agency enforces workplace safety regulations in the United States.
What is OSHA?
SDS stands for this.
What is a Safety Data Sheet?
This alarm signals employees to evacuate the building.
What is the emergency evacuation alarm?
Auditors commonly ask employees about these written instructions for their jobs.
What are SOPs or work instructions?
PPE stands for this.
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
The document that outlines how injuries and illnesses are tracked for OSHA reporting.
What is the OSHA 300 Log?
This section of the SDS contains first aid measures.
What is Section 4?
Employees should know this location after evacuating.
What is the designated assembly area?
Housekeeping issues found during inspections should be handled this way.
What is corrected promptly?
This document identifies hazards and controls associated with a job.
What is a Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) or Job Safety Analysis (JSA)?
Employers must report a workplace fatality within this many hours.
What is 8 hours?
Employees should be able to explain these three things about chemicals they use.
What are the hazards, protective measures, and emergency actions?
The PASS method is used to operate this equipment.
What is a fire extinguisher?
Auditors often ask employees to demonstrate how they use this equipment.
What is required PPE?
A near miss is this type of event.
What is an unplanned event that did not result in injury but had the potential to do so?
Employees have the right to access these records related to workplace chemical exposure.
What are exposure and medical records?
This standardized system classifies and labels chemicals worldwide.
What is GHS (Globally Harmonized System)?
P-A-S-S stands for these four steps.
What are Pull, Aim, Squeeze, and Sweep?
The purpose of a corrective action is to address this.
What is the root cause of an issue?
The Hierarchy of Controls ranks hazard controls from most to least effective.
What are Elimination, Substitution, Engineering Controls, Administrative Controls, and PPE?
During an audit, if you don't know an answer, you should do this.
What is honestly state you don't know and direct the auditor to the appropriate resource or person?
During an audit, an employee should be able to immediately locate this information for any chemical used in their work area.
What is the Safety Data Sheet (SDS)?
The first priority during an emergency is this.
What is protecting people and ensuring life safety?
Good audit behavior includes these three actions.
What are listening carefully, answering honestly, and staying within your area of knowledge?
The best way to answer an auditor's question is this.
What is clearly, truthfully, and concisely?