Protective System/Trench Collapse
The distance that tools, equipment and spoil piles must be placed from the edge of an excavation
What is 2 feet?
A description of Fibrosis
What is scar tissue that is caused by breathing silica dust which causes the lungs ability to extract oxygen to the air?
The height (in feet) at which fall protection is required
What is 6 feet?
The acronym OSHA stands for this
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
Apple, cherry, apricot and peach seeds contain this chemical that is highly deadly to humans.
What is cyanide?
The range of depth (in feet) at which most trench collapses happen
What is 5 feet-15 feet?
Two (or more) places where asbestos can be found
What are Cold Tar Wrap, Demolition Work, Building Maintenance, Excavation?
Three types of fall protection systems
What are Guard Rail Systems, Safety Net Systems and Personal Fall Arrest Systems.
One who is capable of identifying existing and predictable hazards
What is a Competent Person?
The NBA basketball player who once scored 100 points in a single game
Who is Wilt Chamberlain?
Three types of shoring systems
What is Hydraulic, Mechanical and Timber?
Two ways you can protect yourself from breathing in silica dust particles
What are the Wet Method and Respiratory Protection?
5 examples of confined spaces
What are: Tank, Manhole, Boiler, Furnace, Sewer, Silo, Tunnel, Pit, Vault, Pipe, Crawl Space?
A narrow excavation (in relation to its length) made below the surface of the ground. In general, the depth is greater than the width, but the width is not greater than 15 feet.
What is a Trench?
25% of the bones in the body are located here.
What are your feet?
The name of the documentation needed when installing shoring or shielding
What is Tabulated Data?
A type of disease often found in people who have been exposed to asbestos
What is Mesothelioma?
The two oxygen levels (above and below) at which respirators required
What are 23% and above and 19.5% and below?
A Competent Person must be able identify these and take appropriate measures when they are unsanitary, hazardous or dangerous to employees.
What are Working Conditions?
The most printed book in history
What is the IKEA Catalog?
The proper slope of an excavation in class C soil if the excavation is 6' deep
What is 1: 1 1/2?
Name the difference between Acute Silicosis and Chronic Silicosis.
Acute Silicosis develops after short periods of high exposure. Chronic Silicosis develops after long periods of low exposure.
The three characteristics that define a confined space
(1) Large enough and so configured that an employee can enter and perform the work. (2) Has limited means of entry and exit. (3) Not designed for continuous human occupancy.
The man who signed the OSHA Act of 1970 into law
Who is Richard Nixon?
The "M's" in M&Ms stand for this
What are "Mars" and "Murrie"?