Definitions
_______ means an employee who the employer assigns to perform a specific type of duty, or allows in a specific location or area.
What is authorized?
OSHA requires that employers ensure that all places of employment, passageways, storerooms, service rooms, and walking-working surfaces are kept in a _____. _____, and _______ _______
What is clean, orderly and sanitary condition?
Ladder rungs, steps, and cleats are parallel, level and _________ spaced when the ladder is in position for use.
What is uniformly spaced?
OSHA and Voith require personnel be protected by a fall protection system when working from an elevated position equal to or greater than this height.
What is four (4) feet?
For guardrail systems this is the height that toprails must be installed.
What is 42 inches + or - 3 inches?
_____ _____ means any condition on a walking-working surface that exposes an employee to a risk of harm from a fall on the same level or to a lower level.
What is a fall hazard?
Walking working surfaces must be maintained ____ of _____ such as sharps or protruding objects, loose boards, corrosion, leaks, spills, snow, and ice.
What is free of hazards?
Ladders must be inspected before each _____, and more frequently as necessary, to identify any visible defects that could cause employee injury
This is a fall protection system that creates a barrier erected along an unprotected edge or exposed side, edge or other area of a walking-working surface to prevent employees from falling to a lower level.
What is a guardrail system?
If tools, equipment, materials, etc. extends above a toe board this must be installed from the walking-working surface to the top rail.
What are screens or mesh?
____ _________ means any equipment, device, or systems that prevents an employee from falling from an elevation or mitigates the effect of such a fall.
What is fall protection?
The employer must ensure that each walking-working surface can support the _______ _______ ____ for each surface.
What is maximum intended load?
The ______ _____ ___ as defined by OSHA includes the total load (weight and force) of the employee and all tools, equipment, and materials being carried
What is maximum intended load?
This is a fall protection system used to arrest an employee in a fall from a walking-working surface.
What is a personal fall arrest system?
Hole covers must be labelled, secured from displacement and be capable of supporting without failure at least ____ times the maximum intended load.
What is two (2) times?
_________ _________ means equipment, such as vats, tanks, electrical equipment, machinery, equipment or machinery with protruding parts, or other similar units, that, because of their form or function, may harm an employee who falls into or onto the equipment.
What is dangerous equipment?
According to OSHA the employer must provide, and ensure each employee uses, a safe means of _____ and _____ to and from walking-working surfaces.
What is access and egress?
This is the required ratio for utilizing an extension ladder for access.
What is four (4) to one (1)?
A personal fall arrest system consists of these three main components.
What are the ABCs? Anchorage, Body Harness, Connecting Devices (SRL or Lanyard).
This type of fall protection system prevents personnel from accessing unprotected sides and edges.
What is a restraint system?
_______ ____ ___ _____ means any side or edge of a walking-working surface (except at entrances and other points of access) where there is no wall, guardrail system, or stair rail system to protect an employee from falling to a lower level.
What are unprotected sides and edges?
Walking-working surfaces must be inspected, _______ and __ _______, to maintain them in a safe condition.
What is regularly and as necessary?
An extension ladder must extend this far past an access platform.
What is three (3) feet?
OSHA and Voith require employees to be protected from these hazards with hardhats, erection of toeboards and mesh, debris nets, and/or barricades
What are falling or dropped object hazards?
Relating to guardrail systems the capacity of the top mid and and toe rail/board must be _____, _____, _____ lbs applied in any direction.
What is 200lbs, 150lbs, 50lbs?