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A program requiring a trainee to demonstrate the ability to perform job-related tasks
What is competency-based?
Craftworkers who perform such tasks as building stairs, installing trim, and hanging doors are considered this.
What is a finish carpenter?
In its history, SkillsUSA has served more than this many members.
What is 10.5 million?
A required topic in the OSHA-10 program is this.
What is the Focus Four Hazards?
A list of building materials obtained by analyzing the project drawings
What is material takeoff?
An apprentice program traditionally requires 8,000 hours of training, which is equivalent to this.
What is four years?
Examples of this are framing a house, erecting concrete forms, building bridges.
What is rough carpentry?
The national organization serving teachers and students preparing for careers in technical, skilled, and service occupations is this.
If you see something unsafe on the job site, you should do this.
What is report it immediately to your supervisor?
Man-made
What is synthetic?
In a traditional carpentry apprenticeship program, the total number of OJL hours required is this.
What is 4,000 hours?
Once a responsibility has been delegated to a carpenter, that carpenter should do this.
What is continue to perform duties without further direction?
In SkillsUSA, the activities and projects that your chapter is going to undertake during the school year is referred to as this.
What is the Program of Work?
Creating and maintaining this is an ongoing process that includes sound safety structure and attitude, and relates to both organizations and individuals.
What is safety culture?
To reduce or minimize
What is abate?
A training program in which a craft is learned from those who have mastered the craft and focuses on learning by doing is called this.
What is an apprenticeship?
Examples of this are building stairs, installing doors, installing cabinets.
What is finish carpentry?
To assist its members in becoming world-class workers, leaders, and responsible citizens is this.
What is the mission of SkillsUSA?
US Congress passed this in 1970 to set occupational safety and health standards for all places of employment. This created OSHA.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970?
An agency of the US Dept. of Labor whose mission is to set safety standards
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
A journeyman carpenter employed by a small firm is more likely to do this.
What is perform a variety of tasks?
True or False: Unless you are ill or have a family emergency, you should be on the job by the specified time.
Sponsors the national carpentry competition at the SkillsUSA Championships
Who is NCCER?
According to OSHA standards, you are entitled to this.
What is on-the-job safety training?
Equipment or clothing designed to prevent or reduce injuries
What is PPE?
The primary goal of NCCER is this.
What is standardize construction craft training throughout the country?
A carpenter that is frequently tardy to work is said to be this.
What is often arriving late for work?
The number of business, industry, and labor sponsors that actively support SkillsUSA at the national level.
What is more than 1,100?
One approach to hazard recognition on the job
What is a Job Hazard Analysis or Job Safety Analysis?
The culture created when the whole company sees the value of a safe work environment.
What is safety culture?
Trainees in an NCCER program will become part of a national registry and receive a certificate for each level of training completed. When you apply for a job with participating contractors, this is available to them.
What is a copy of your training transcripts?
A carpenter who works for this may work primarily with concrete, steel, and preformed building materials.
Who is a commercial contractor?
Community Service, Professional Development, Social Activities
What are goals of SkillsUSA Program of Work?
Focus Four Hazards, a mandatory topic of OSHA-10, are:
What are falls, electrocution, struck-by, and caught-in/caught between?
A safety program developed for a job site that identifies and takes into account any specific potential hazards that may be encountered.
What is site-specific safety program?