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The mission of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is: - To send every worker home whole and healthy every day Electricity travels in closed circuits, and its normal route is through a conductor. Electric shock occurs when: - Your body becomes part of the circuit Workers need to take which of the following common-sense steps to protect themselves from falls through skylights and roof and floor openings? - -- Never sit on, lean against, or step on a skylight lens or any covering placed over a hole in a roof or floor -- Guard or securely cover all holes created or uncovered before leaving a work area -- Always use a PFAS when working over an unguarded or uncovered opening more than six feet above a lower level The two steps for avoiding hazards that are always taken before the need for PPE is considered are: - Workplace and engineering controls The three main scaffold types are aerial lifts, supported scaffolds and: - suspended scaffolds Because using cranes or derricks to hoist personnel poses a serious risk to the employees being lifted, any cranes and derricks that hoist personnel must: - -- Be placed on a firm foundation and be uniformly level within 1 percent of level grade -- Move the personnel platform slowly and cautiously and have rotation-resistant rope with a safety factor of 10 -- Have all brakes and locking devices set when the occupied personnel platform is in stationary position If the use of a power tool can result in flying sparks, metal shavings, wood chips, splashes, or other debris, workers should: - Protect themselves by wearing proper PPEOSHA defines an excavation as: - Any man-made cavity, depression, trench or cut in the earth's surface formed by earth removal A training program to teach proper lifting techniques should cover: - -- Knowledge of the basic anatomy of the spine, muscles, and joints of the trunk -- The use of safe lifting postures and timing Mechanical demolition refers to demolition using equipment like: - wrecking balls and jackhammers OSHA's electrical standards are based on: - the NEC