OSHA 500 END OF COURSE 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔requirements for record retention and document updates - ✔✔OSHA 300 and 301
kept for 5 years
300A (summary)
✔✔OSHA inspection process - ✔✔1. Credentials
2. Opening meeting
3. Walk thru
4. Closing conference
✔✔OSHA's inspection priorities - ✔✔1. immediate danger
2. fatality
3. Complaint/referral
4. Planned inspection
✔✔Violations (5 types) - ✔✔1. serious- substantial probability of death
2. willful-intentional
3. repeat
4. other-than-serious
5. failure to abate
✔✔multi-employer citation policy (4) - ✔✔creating- created hazard
exposing-workers are exposed to hazard
controlling- in charge of site
correcting- authority to correct hazard
✔✔3 methods OSHA uses to provide info to employers and employees about worksite
safety and regulation compliance - ✔✔Directives
Letters of Interpretation
Compliance Assistance
✔✔OSHA Requirement for providing egress when excavation is greater than 4' -
✔✔egress every 25' (ladder every 50 feet)
✔✔4 excavations and trench hazards - ✔✔falls
falling loads
hazardous atmospheres
mobile equipment
✔✔types of protective systems (3) - ✔✔sloping/benching 1:1 (not for C)
shoring
shielding
, ✔✔depth OSHA requires a protective system for excavations - ✔✔5'
✔✔when must a competent person inspect the excavation, areas around it, and
protective system (3) - ✔✔1. before work starts and as needed throughout shift
2. after any compromising event (weather, wind, etc.)
3. expected that employee will be exposed to hazard
✔✔what are the primary means of protecting employees from hazards (2) - ✔✔1.
engineering control
2. administrative control
✔✔PPE required - ✔✔when engineering and administrative controls do not provide
sufficient protection
✔✔1st Step to developing a comprehensive safety and health program - ✔✔hazard
assessment
✔✔employee responsibility regarding PPE - ✔✔1. wear it
2. get trained
3. care for, clean, maintain PPE
4. inform supervisor if repair or replacement is needed
✔✔employers responsible for providing PPE at no cost except: - ✔✔1. non-specialty
safety toe protective footwear
non-specialty prescription safety eyewear that employer permits to be worn off the
jobsite
2. when employee requests to use shoes/boots with built-in metatarsal protection
instead of employer-provided metatarsal guards
3. everyday clothing
4. protection from weather
5. replacement PPE that was lost or intentionally damaged
✔✔When employees provide their own PPE what responsibilities do the employers
have? (3) - ✔✔ensure PPE's:
adequacy
proper maintenance
sanitation
✔✔who is required to receive training related to scaffolds - ✔✔1. performs work on a
scaffold
2. erects, disassembles, moves, operates, repairs,maintains, inspects scaffolds
✔✔who performs inspections - ✔✔competent person
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔requirements for record retention and document updates - ✔✔OSHA 300 and 301
kept for 5 years
300A (summary)
✔✔OSHA inspection process - ✔✔1. Credentials
2. Opening meeting
3. Walk thru
4. Closing conference
✔✔OSHA's inspection priorities - ✔✔1. immediate danger
2. fatality
3. Complaint/referral
4. Planned inspection
✔✔Violations (5 types) - ✔✔1. serious- substantial probability of death
2. willful-intentional
3. repeat
4. other-than-serious
5. failure to abate
✔✔multi-employer citation policy (4) - ✔✔creating- created hazard
exposing-workers are exposed to hazard
controlling- in charge of site
correcting- authority to correct hazard
✔✔3 methods OSHA uses to provide info to employers and employees about worksite
safety and regulation compliance - ✔✔Directives
Letters of Interpretation
Compliance Assistance
✔✔OSHA Requirement for providing egress when excavation is greater than 4' -
✔✔egress every 25' (ladder every 50 feet)
✔✔4 excavations and trench hazards - ✔✔falls
falling loads
hazardous atmospheres
mobile equipment
✔✔types of protective systems (3) - ✔✔sloping/benching 1:1 (not for C)
shoring
shielding
, ✔✔depth OSHA requires a protective system for excavations - ✔✔5'
✔✔when must a competent person inspect the excavation, areas around it, and
protective system (3) - ✔✔1. before work starts and as needed throughout shift
2. after any compromising event (weather, wind, etc.)
3. expected that employee will be exposed to hazard
✔✔what are the primary means of protecting employees from hazards (2) - ✔✔1.
engineering control
2. administrative control
✔✔PPE required - ✔✔when engineering and administrative controls do not provide
sufficient protection
✔✔1st Step to developing a comprehensive safety and health program - ✔✔hazard
assessment
✔✔employee responsibility regarding PPE - ✔✔1. wear it
2. get trained
3. care for, clean, maintain PPE
4. inform supervisor if repair or replacement is needed
✔✔employers responsible for providing PPE at no cost except: - ✔✔1. non-specialty
safety toe protective footwear
non-specialty prescription safety eyewear that employer permits to be worn off the
jobsite
2. when employee requests to use shoes/boots with built-in metatarsal protection
instead of employer-provided metatarsal guards
3. everyday clothing
4. protection from weather
5. replacement PPE that was lost or intentionally damaged
✔✔When employees provide their own PPE what responsibilities do the employers
have? (3) - ✔✔ensure PPE's:
adequacy
proper maintenance
sanitation
✔✔who is required to receive training related to scaffolds - ✔✔1. performs work on a
scaffold
2. erects, disassembles, moves, operates, repairs,maintains, inspects scaffolds
✔✔who performs inspections - ✔✔competent person
