OSHA 500 LATEST 2026/2027 EXAMS QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔What are the safe practices for using extensible and articulating boom platforms? -
✔✔Lift controls shall be tested each day prior to use to determine that such controls are
in safe working condition.
Employees shall always stand firmly on the floor of the basket, and shall not sit or climb
on the edge of the basket or use planks, ladders.
✔✔What equipment must be used when working from an aerial lift? - ✔✔A body belt
shall be worn and a lanyard attached to the boom or basket.
✔✔What requirements must employers meet when implementing scaffold training? -
✔✔Trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work
in question.
✔✔Body Belt (Safety belt): - ✔✔A strap with means both for securing it about the waist
and for attaching it to a lanyard, lifeline, or deceleration devices.
✔✔Body Harness: - ✔✔Straps which may be secured about the employee in a manner
that will distribute the fall arrest forces over at least the thighs, pelvis, waist, chest, and
shoulders
✔✔Connector: - ✔✔A carabiner, or it may be an integral component of part of the
system (such as a buckle or D-ring sewn into a body belt or body harness, or a snap-
hook spliced or sewn to a lanyard.
✔✔Deceleration device: - ✔✔A rope grab, rip-stitch lanyard, specifically-woven
lanyard, tearing or deforming lanyards, automatic self-retracting lifelines/lanyards,
etc.,Limit the energy imposed on an employee during fall arrest.
✔✔Low-slope roof: - ✔✔A roof having a slope less than or equal to 4 in 12 (vertical to
horizontal).
✔✔Personal fall arrest system: - ✔✔Consists of an anchorage, connectors, a body belt
or body harness and may include a lanyard,
deceleration device, lifeline,
✔✔Positioning device system: - ✔✔A body belt or body harness system rigged to allow
an employee to be supported on an elevated vertical surface, such as a wall, and work
with both hands free while leaning.
✔✔Steep roof: - ✔✔A roof having a slope greater than 4 in 12 (vertical to horizontal).
, ✔✔Unprotected sides and edges: - ✔✔A walking working/working surface, e.g. floor,
ramp, or runway where there is no wall or guardrail
system at least 39 inches (1.0) high.
✔✔Warning line system: - ✔✔A barrier erected on a roof to warn employees that they
are approaching an unprotected side or edge.
✔✔What safety equipment is necessary when employees are working on or near
unprotected sides, leading edges, hoist areas, holes, and walkways? - ✔✔Guardrail
systems or personal fall arrest systems.
✔✔How can employees be protected when working at the edge of an excavation six
feet or more in depth? - ✔✔Guardrail systems, fences, or barricades when the
excavations.
✔✔How must employees be protected when working on roofs? - ✔✔Guardrail systems,
safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, or a combination.
✔✔What are the OSHA requirements for the use of guardrail systems and safety nets?
- ✔✔Top rails shall be 42 inches plus or minus 3 inches above the walking/working
level.
Midrails, at least 21 inches high.
Capable of withstanding, without failure, a force of at least 200 pounds applied within 2
inches of the top edge.
✔✔How can employees be protected from falling objects? - ✔✔Toeboards shall be
capable of withstanding, without failure, a force of at least 50 pounds.
Toeboards shall be a minimum of 3 1/2 inches (9 cm) in vertical height.
✔✔When must fall protection plans be prepared? - ✔✔Where the leading edge work,
precast concrete work, or residential construction work is being performed and the plan
must be maintained up to date.
✔✔Safety nets shall be installed as close as practicable under the walking/working
surface on which employees are working, but in no case more than _________ Feet -
✔✔30 feet below such level.
✔✔Anchorages used for attachment of personal fall arrest equipment shall be
independent of any anchorage being used to support or suspend platforms and capable
of supporting at least ___________ Pounds - ✔✔5,000 Pounds.
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔What are the safe practices for using extensible and articulating boom platforms? -
✔✔Lift controls shall be tested each day prior to use to determine that such controls are
in safe working condition.
Employees shall always stand firmly on the floor of the basket, and shall not sit or climb
on the edge of the basket or use planks, ladders.
✔✔What equipment must be used when working from an aerial lift? - ✔✔A body belt
shall be worn and a lanyard attached to the boom or basket.
✔✔What requirements must employers meet when implementing scaffold training? -
✔✔Trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work
in question.
✔✔Body Belt (Safety belt): - ✔✔A strap with means both for securing it about the waist
and for attaching it to a lanyard, lifeline, or deceleration devices.
✔✔Body Harness: - ✔✔Straps which may be secured about the employee in a manner
that will distribute the fall arrest forces over at least the thighs, pelvis, waist, chest, and
shoulders
✔✔Connector: - ✔✔A carabiner, or it may be an integral component of part of the
system (such as a buckle or D-ring sewn into a body belt or body harness, or a snap-
hook spliced or sewn to a lanyard.
✔✔Deceleration device: - ✔✔A rope grab, rip-stitch lanyard, specifically-woven
lanyard, tearing or deforming lanyards, automatic self-retracting lifelines/lanyards,
etc.,Limit the energy imposed on an employee during fall arrest.
✔✔Low-slope roof: - ✔✔A roof having a slope less than or equal to 4 in 12 (vertical to
horizontal).
✔✔Personal fall arrest system: - ✔✔Consists of an anchorage, connectors, a body belt
or body harness and may include a lanyard,
deceleration device, lifeline,
✔✔Positioning device system: - ✔✔A body belt or body harness system rigged to allow
an employee to be supported on an elevated vertical surface, such as a wall, and work
with both hands free while leaning.
✔✔Steep roof: - ✔✔A roof having a slope greater than 4 in 12 (vertical to horizontal).
, ✔✔Unprotected sides and edges: - ✔✔A walking working/working surface, e.g. floor,
ramp, or runway where there is no wall or guardrail
system at least 39 inches (1.0) high.
✔✔Warning line system: - ✔✔A barrier erected on a roof to warn employees that they
are approaching an unprotected side or edge.
✔✔What safety equipment is necessary when employees are working on or near
unprotected sides, leading edges, hoist areas, holes, and walkways? - ✔✔Guardrail
systems or personal fall arrest systems.
✔✔How can employees be protected when working at the edge of an excavation six
feet or more in depth? - ✔✔Guardrail systems, fences, or barricades when the
excavations.
✔✔How must employees be protected when working on roofs? - ✔✔Guardrail systems,
safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, or a combination.
✔✔What are the OSHA requirements for the use of guardrail systems and safety nets?
- ✔✔Top rails shall be 42 inches plus or minus 3 inches above the walking/working
level.
Midrails, at least 21 inches high.
Capable of withstanding, without failure, a force of at least 200 pounds applied within 2
inches of the top edge.
✔✔How can employees be protected from falling objects? - ✔✔Toeboards shall be
capable of withstanding, without failure, a force of at least 50 pounds.
Toeboards shall be a minimum of 3 1/2 inches (9 cm) in vertical height.
✔✔When must fall protection plans be prepared? - ✔✔Where the leading edge work,
precast concrete work, or residential construction work is being performed and the plan
must be maintained up to date.
✔✔Safety nets shall be installed as close as practicable under the walking/working
surface on which employees are working, but in no case more than _________ Feet -
✔✔30 feet below such level.
✔✔Anchorages used for attachment of personal fall arrest equipment shall be
independent of any anchorage being used to support or suspend platforms and capable
of supporting at least ___________ Pounds - ✔✔5,000 Pounds.
