Focus Four Hazards
These are the four leading causes of construction fatalities.
What are Falls, Struck-By, Caught-In/Between, and Electrocution?
This health hazard occurs from breathing harmful dusts, fumes, vapors, or gases.
What is an inhalation hazard?
Before using a ladder, workers should always do this.
What is inspect the ladder?
These four letters stand for the federal agency responsible for enforcing workplace safety and health regulations.
What is OSHA?
Hard hats primarily protect workers from this type of hazard.
What are struck-by hazards?
This Focus Four hazard causes the highest number of deaths in construction.
What are falls?
This common construction material can cause silicosis when its dust is inhaled.
What is silica?
Extension ladders should extend at least this far above the landing surface.
What is 3 feet?
This law, passed in 1970, established OSHA and protects workers by requiring safe and healthful workplaces.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Act?
This type of PPE protects workers from inhaling hazardous dust.
What is a respirator?
Being pinned between heavy equipment and a wall is an example of this hazard.
What is a caught-in/between hazard?
These are the four major categories of health hazards recognized by OSHA.
What are chemical, physical, biological, and ergonomic hazards?
This rule says the ladder base should be one foot away from the structure for every four feet of ladder height.
What is the 4-to-1 rule?
Employees have this right if they believe there is a serious safety or health hazard at their workplace, and OSHA prohibits employers from retaliating against them for exercising it.
What is the right to file a confidential OSHA complaint?
Employees should report unsafe working conditions to this person first.
Who is their supervisor or employer?
A swinging load from a crane striking a worker is an example of this hazard.
What is a struck-by hazard?
This document provides information about chemical hazards, handling, and emergency procedures.
What is a Safety Data Sheet (SDS)?
When carrying tools while climbing a ladder, workers should use this method instead of holding them in their hands.
What is a tool belt, hoist line, or rope?
The Occupational Safety and Health Act was signed into law during this year.
What is 1970?
This type of control removes the hazard completely instead of relying on workers to avoid it.
What is elimination?
Contact with overhead power lines most commonly results in this Focus Four hazard.
What is electrocution?
This type of exposure occurs when small amounts of a hazardous substance enter the body repeatedly over a long period of time.
What is chronic exposure?
Standing on this part of a stepladder is prohibited.
What is the top cap or top step?
These are the two main groups protected by OSHA regulations in the workplace.
Who are employers and employees?
A worker notices a damaged ladder, exposed electrical wiring, and an unprotected floor opening. According to OSHA, what should the worker do first?
What is report the hazards and avoid exposure until they are corrected?