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Intro to OSHA
Focus 4: Falls
Focus 4: Electrical
Grab Bag
Focus 4:
Struck By/Caught Between
100
Ways OSHA carries out it's mission?
What are; -developing job safety and health standards and enforcing them through worksite inspections, -maintaining a reporting and recordkeeping system to keep track of job-related injuries and illnesses, and -providing training programs to increase knowledge about occupational safety and health.
100
The occupation that has the Highest Number of Deaths From Falls
What are Construction Laborers?
100
The safest ladder material to use around electricity
What is fiberglass?
100
Time in which OSHA says an employer must ensure prompt medical care.
What is 3-4 minutes?
100
When an excavation reaches this depth, cave-in protection is required by OSHA.
What is 5 feet?
200
A violation that the employer intentionally and knowingly commits or a violation that the employer commits with plain indifference to the law.
What is a Willful Violation?
200
-Elimination/Substitution -Engineering Controls -Administrative Controls -PPE
What is the Hierarchy of Controls?
200
A device which measures variances in current and quickly shuts off power to the device to prevent electrical shock.
What is a Ground-fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI)?
200
OSHA's highest priority in terms of category of inspection.
What is imminent danger?
200
One of the Main Causes of Struck By Deaths
What are -Vehicle and Roadway Hazards -Falling Objects -Flying Objects
300
The year President Richard Nixon signed the Occupational Safety and Health Act into law?
What is 1970?
300
These systems are designed to catch workers after they have fallen.
What are fall arrest systems?
300
The second leading cause of electrical fatalities?
What are secondary falls?
300
Documentation which contains information regarding hazardous materials on site.
What is Safety Data Sheets?
300
When an excavation reaches this depth, stairs, ladders or ramps must be provided.
What is 4 feet?
400
Forms used to record workplace accidents. These must be posted annually from Feb 1 through April 31.
What are OSHA 300 logs?
400
When workers are above this height, fall protection is required?
What is 6 feet?
400
The minimum distance scaffolds should be set up near a powerline?
What is 10 feet?
400
Items required on a synthetic sling tag
What is; -Name or trademark manufacturer -Rated capacities for type of hitch -Type of material
400
The individual that has knowledge of the hazards and has authority to make corrections?
What is a competent person?
500
What OSHA may cite when no other OSHA standard applies;
What is the General Duty Clause?
500
What Are The Main Causes of Fall Fatalities?
-Unprotected sides and edges, roof and wall openings, and floor holes -Improper scaffold construction -Improper use of portable ladders -Falls from girders and structural steel -Unguarded protruding steel rebars
500
Ensures proper path to ground and prevents an electric shock when/if there is a malfunction in the circuit?
What is a ground prong/pin?
500
Most commonly used sling configurations in construction rigging
What are vertical, choker, and basket hitches?
500
box-like structures that are placed inside trenches or excavations and are strong enough to protect workers inside if there is a cave-in.
What is a trench box?