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What is OSHA MISSION |
To assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education, and assistance |
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What is section 11C of the OSH act is |
Prohibits employers from retaliating against employees for exercising their rights |
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Know the purpose of OSHA directives like CPL |
Enforcement and compliance directives. Used to ensure consistent enforcement of OSHA regulations |
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What are the 5 types of multi-employer citation policy |
Creating, exposing, correcting employer, controlling employer, multiple roles |
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What is the definition of point of operation machine guarding |
The point of operation of machines whose operation exposes an employee to injury, shall be guarded |
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What are the basic industrial hygiene principles |
The science of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling the workplace conditions |
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What is the definition of GFCI |
Ground fault circuit interrupter the only protection device designed to protect people against electric shock from an electrical system |
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What is the definition of a grounding conductor |
The conductive path that provides a ground fault current path and connects normally non-current-carrying metal parts of equipment together and to the system grounded conductor or to the grounding electrode conductor |
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Know what incident rates are in OSHA record keeping |
OSHA form 300a |
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What is the definition of a floor hole and floor opening |
Floor hole 1 inch to 12 inches floor opening 12 or more inches. |
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What are the safety requirements for fixed ladders |
Rungs must be 3/4 inch metal, 1 1/8 inch wood, 12 inches between rungs, |
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What is effective exhaust ventilation when your welding |
Shall be of sufficient capacity to produce the number of air changes necessary to maintain welding fumes and smoke within safe limits |
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What categories of flammable liquids need to be interconnected (bonded) when poured |
Category 1,2,3 with a Flashpoint below 100 degrees F |
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Definition of lower explosive limit and upper explosive limit |
Minimum concentration of a flammable gas to support its combustion in air, maximum concentration of a gas that will burn in air |
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Definition of a confined space |
Entry or exit that is not designed for continuous occupancy |
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Definition of a permit required confined space |
Potential for hazardous atmosphere, potential engulfment, internal configuration where an entrant could be trapped by inward converging walls |
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Storage of cylinders must be |
A minimum of 20 feet between or a 5 foot non combustible wall with half hour fire rating |
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Class A fire |
Ordinary combustible such as paper wood |
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Class B fire |
Flammable liquids |
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Class c fire |
Electrical |
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Class D fire |
Metals |
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What are the 2 types of machine guarding |
Horizontal and vertical |
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Portable fire extinguisher shall be within how many feet |
Class A/C/D 75 FT OR LESS CLASS B 50 FT or less |
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What is the minimum clearance a sprinkler must have |
18 inches |
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Employers must report work related fatalities within |
8 hrs |
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For in patient hospitalization, amputation, or eye loss employers must report the incident within |
24 hrs |
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How long is the repeat violation window |
5 years |
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What is the most important component of safety an health system |
Management leadership and employee involvement are the most important |
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What are the 3 modes of transmission of blood borne pathogens |
Penetration of skin, unprotected mucous membranes, unprotected openings in the skin |
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Medical records must be maintained for how long |
Duration of employment plus 30 years |
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A powered industrial truck is unattended when |
The operator is 25ft or more away or when he leaves the vehicle and it is not in his view |
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Overhead and gantry cranes must be |
Rate load marked and clearly legible from the floor |
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Employer's shall administer a hearing conservation program whenever employee noise exposure equal or exceed an 8 hr time weighted average sound level of |
85 decibels measured on the A scale |
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What are the general requirements for machine guards |
Guards shall be affixed to the machine where possible and secured elsewhere if for any reason attachment to the machine is not possible |
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When a fan is less than 7 ft from the floor or wok in level the blades should be |
Guarded with openings no larger than half inch |
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Work rests must be adjusted to a max of |
1/8 inch bottom an 1/4 inch top |
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Portable multi-section metal ladders shall overlap the adjacent sections by at least |
3 ft for 36 ft 4 ft for 36-48 5 ft for 48-60 |
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Atmospheric oxygen must be between |
19.5 and 23.5 percent |
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What are 5 types of power tools |
Electrical, pneumatic, liquid fuel, hydraulic, powder actuated |
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The most recommend type of power tool switch is |
Constant pressure switch |
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Compressed air is not to be used for cleaning purposes except for |
When reduced to less than 30 psi |
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Types of controls |
Eliminating is best, engineering, administrative controls, PPE |
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What is the minimum distance of conductive objects for overhead power lines |
10 feet |
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Employers are required to provide information to their employees about hazardous chemicals to which they are exposed to |
Ensure they are labeled, maintain copies of data sheet, obtain SDS asap |
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Employers must provide employees information and train on hazardous chemicals in their work area when? |
Time of their initial assignment, whenever a new physical or health hazard is introduced |
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The purpose of the OSHA 300 log is |
Illness, injury, fatalities |
