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Focus Four
OSHA Facts
Work Hazards
Working at Heights
100

This is the maximum amount of weight that an employee should lift without assistance or mechanical device.

What is 50 lbs.

100

These are known as the OSHA Focus Four

What are: Falls, Caught-In or -Between, Struck-By and Electrocution

100

A person with a degree, certificate, or professional standing is known as this.

What is a qualified person?

100

LOTO is a process to prevent this.

What are electric shocks?

100

This is the minimum approach distance from performing work near a power line.

What is 10'.

200

Spoil piles should be kept this distance from the excavation. 

What is 2 feet.


200
This is an incident beyond basic first aid measures.

What is an OSHA recordable incident?

200
A Job Safety Analysis (JSA) is an example of this step in the hierarchy of controls.

What are administrative controls?

200

These are four elements a fire needs to exist.

What are oxygen, heat, fuel, and chain reaction?

200

You must maintain this at all times while being on a ladder. 

What is three points of contact?

300

This is the third step in the hierarchy of controls

Engineering Controls

300

Utilities, cave-ins, and water accumulation are all hazards of the following operation.

Excavation

300

OSHA stands for this.

What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration?

300

They result in 15% of occupational fatalities.

What are falls?

300

This is the trigger height for fall prevention/protection.

What is 4'.

400

The ideal range of oxygen levels in the body.

What is 19.5% - 23.5%

400

This is the president that signed OSHA into action

Who is President Nixon?

400

This is what height we need protection from scaffolding?

What is 10 feet

400

This is the information from the trench box that provides manufacturer load recommendations and safe working parameters.

What is the tabulated data?

400

A fall arrest system consists of these 3 components. 

What are A, B, C?

Anchor, Body Harness, Connector

500

A stairway, ladder, or step stool is required for a break in elevation of this much or greater.

What is 19 inches?

500

These are injuries that cause pinching or crushing.

What is struck by/caught between?

500

According to OSHA, how long is an average work shift?

What is 8 hours?

500

This is OSHA's number one injury from electric shock?

What are falls?

500

My extension ladder is extended 12'.  Where should I position the base?

What is 3 feet.

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