Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSHA-50O Practical’s Questions & Answers
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ANSI
Answer:
American National Standards Institute
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Authorized Person
Answer:
A person approved or assigned by the employer to perform a specific type of duty or duties
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NIOSH
Answer:
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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What is the purpose of OSHA?
Answer:
To reduce workplace hazards
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Occupational Safety and Health Standard
Answer:
A standard which requires to provide safe or healthful employment or places of employment
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Who is covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Act
Answer:
Every working man and woman in the nation safe and healthful working conditions.
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What does the General Duty clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) state?
Answer:
Employer is required to provide his/her employees with a workplace that is "free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious harm" to employees. 2 / 4
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What are the types of OSHA inspections?
Answer:
- Imminent danger inspections
- Catastrophic and fatal accident inspections
- Employee complaint inspections
- Programmed high hazard inspections
- Re-inspections
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What types of violations and penalties may OSHA issue following an inspection?
Answer:
- Other-than-serious violation
- Serious violation
- Willful violation
- Repeated violation
- Failure to abate
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Competent person:
Answer:
A person capable of identifying existing and predictable hazards in the work environment that are unsanitary, hazardous or dangerous to employees and who is authorized to correct hazards.
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What are workers' rights and responsibilities?
Answer:
- Reading and understanding safety materials, following safe procedures,
wearing the property gear, and reporting hazardous conditions in the workplace.
- To Identify and correct problems in their workplaces, working with their
employers to correct these problems whenever possible.
- To complain to OSHA in person, by telephone, fax, mail or electronic
correspondence via the OSHA website about workplace conditions that threaten their health or safety.
- To seek safe and healthful working conditions without being disciplined or
fired by their employer.
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Confined space:
Answer:
Any space having a limited means of egress including, but not limited to, storage tanks, process vessels, bins, boilers, ventilation or exhaust ducts, sewers, underground utility vaults, tunnels, pipelines and open top spaces more than four feet in depth such as pits, tubs, vaults and vessels.
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