OSHA UPDATED TEST BANK 2026
PERFECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ What date was the OSHA act signed? Answer: December 29, 1970
⩥ When did the OSHA agency actually come into being? Answer: April
28, 1971
⩥ What does OSHA stand for? Answer: Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
⩥ What is OSHA's mission? Answer: 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
⩥ What type of agency is OSHA? Answer: An agency of the U.S.
department of labor
⩥ What is the general duty clause ? Answer: Shall furnish employees
employment and a place of employment free from recognized hazards
that could cause death/ serious physical harm, shall comply with OSHA
standards, each employee shall comply with OSHA standards, rules,
regulations
,⩥ Employers must do what three things with OSHA safety/ health
hazards? Answer: Follow, find, correct
⩥ How should employers inform employees about chemical hazards?
Answer: Training, labels, alarms, color-coded systems, chemical
information sheets
⩥ SDS stands for? Answer: Safety Data Sheet
⩥ SDS must include? Answer: Container labeling/ worker training
(include the physical/ health hazards of chemicals and how workers can
protect themselves
⩥ Employers should provide what to workers at no cost? Answer: PPE
⩥ Employers must keep accurate records of what? Answer: Related
injuries and illnesses
⩥ Employers must report fatalities in how many hours? Answer: 8
⩥ Employers must report any work related inpatient hospitalization/
amputation/ loss of an eye? Answer: 24 hours
⩥ Employers must inform workers how to report what? Answer: Injury
, ⩥ Employers must make records available/ accessible to who? Answer:
Employees and OSHA
⩥ Employers must post what three things where it is visible to workers?
Answer: Annual injury/ illness summary data, OSHA citations, OSHA
"it's the law" poster
⩥ Employers cannot (blank) against any worker using their rights under
the law? Answer: Retaliate
⩥ Record keeping is necessary if what? Answer: 10 or more employees
or injuries/ illnesses
⩥ What is the exception to the record keeping rule? Answer: 10 or fewer
employees or if you are apart of an establishment in a certain industry
referenced in the chart on page 442
⩥ Employees have the right to working conditions that? Answer: Do not
pose a risk or serious harm
⩥ Employees have the right to receive information/ training (in a
language they can understand) on what? Answer: Chemical and other
hazards, methods to prevent harm, and OSHA standards that apply to
their workplace
PERFECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ What date was the OSHA act signed? Answer: December 29, 1970
⩥ When did the OSHA agency actually come into being? Answer: April
28, 1971
⩥ What does OSHA stand for? Answer: Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
⩥ What is OSHA's mission? Answer: 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
⩥ What type of agency is OSHA? Answer: An agency of the U.S.
department of labor
⩥ What is the general duty clause ? Answer: Shall furnish employees
employment and a place of employment free from recognized hazards
that could cause death/ serious physical harm, shall comply with OSHA
standards, each employee shall comply with OSHA standards, rules,
regulations
,⩥ Employers must do what three things with OSHA safety/ health
hazards? Answer: Follow, find, correct
⩥ How should employers inform employees about chemical hazards?
Answer: Training, labels, alarms, color-coded systems, chemical
information sheets
⩥ SDS stands for? Answer: Safety Data Sheet
⩥ SDS must include? Answer: Container labeling/ worker training
(include the physical/ health hazards of chemicals and how workers can
protect themselves
⩥ Employers should provide what to workers at no cost? Answer: PPE
⩥ Employers must keep accurate records of what? Answer: Related
injuries and illnesses
⩥ Employers must report fatalities in how many hours? Answer: 8
⩥ Employers must report any work related inpatient hospitalization/
amputation/ loss of an eye? Answer: 24 hours
⩥ Employers must inform workers how to report what? Answer: Injury
, ⩥ Employers must make records available/ accessible to who? Answer:
Employees and OSHA
⩥ Employers must post what three things where it is visible to workers?
Answer: Annual injury/ illness summary data, OSHA citations, OSHA
"it's the law" poster
⩥ Employers cannot (blank) against any worker using their rights under
the law? Answer: Retaliate
⩥ Record keeping is necessary if what? Answer: 10 or more employees
or injuries/ illnesses
⩥ What is the exception to the record keeping rule? Answer: 10 or fewer
employees or if you are apart of an establishment in a certain industry
referenced in the chart on page 442
⩥ Employees have the right to working conditions that? Answer: Do not
pose a risk or serious harm
⩥ Employees have the right to receive information/ training (in a
language they can understand) on what? Answer: Chemical and other
hazards, methods to prevent harm, and OSHA standards that apply to
their workplace
