The OSH Act and OSHA
This agency was created by the OSH Act in 1970 to set and enforce workplace safety standards.
What is OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)?
Employers must notify OSHA within this time frame if there is a workplace fatality.
What is 8 hours?
Employees have the right to file this with OSHA if they believe their workplace is unsafe.
What is a complaint?
These must be provided to workers who are exposed to chemicals to ensure their safety.
What are labels and safety data sheets?
OSHA inspections can be initiated by this, which may include workplace fatalities and catastrophes.
What is an imminent danger situation?
The OSH Act requires employers to furnish this type of workplace environment for employees.
What is a workplace free from recognized hazards likely to cause death or serious harm?
Employers are required to provide this type of personal protective equipment to workers at no cost.
What is personal protective equipment (PPE)?
This must be filed within 30 days if an employee feels they were retaliated against for exercising their OSHA rights.
What is a discrimination complaint?
OSHA standards require employers to protect workers from these common workplace accidents.
What is slip-and-fall protection?
Employers must report a workplace fatality to OSHA within this time frame.
What is 8 hours?
This section of the OSH Act requires employers to keep workplaces free of serious recognized hazards, even when no specific OSHA standard applies.
What is the General Duty Clause?
Employers must post this OSHA document in a visible workplace location.
What is the OSHA "Job Safety and Health - It’s the Law" poster?
Employees can review these records related to work-related injuries and illnesses.
What are the employer’s injury and illness records?
This standard requires information about chemical hazards to be available and understandable to workers.
What is the Hazard Communication Standard?
The second priority for OSHA inspections involves these types of incidents that result in a fatality or the hospitalization of three or more workers.
What are fatalities and catastrophes?
OSHA offers this type of service to small businesses with fewer than 250 employees to help identify and correct job hazards without penalties.
What is a free onsite consultation service?
Employers must maintain records of work-related injuries and illnesses using this OSHA form.
What is Form 300 (OSHA Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses)?
Employees are entitled to receive these when testing is done to find hazards in the workplace.
What are copies of test results?
Standards require employers to provide this type of equipment to workers who are exposed to respiratory hazards.
What are respirators?
This independent body hears appeals of OSHA citations.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission?
The OSH Act covers most private sector workers and employers either directly or through this type of program.
What is a state program that is OSHA-approved?
OSHA requires employers to train employees about hazards, and the training must be provided in this way.
What is in a language the workers can understand?
OSHA must keep the identity of this group confidential when requested.
What is workers who file complaints?
This clause is cited when no specific OSHA standard applies to a hazard, but the workplace must still be kept free of serious recognized hazards.
What is the General Duty Clause?
OSHA’s primary goal is correcting hazards rather than this.
What is issuing citations or collecting fines?