OSHA 30 Hour Outreach – Construction
questions with correct answers
GHS ✅✅Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals
HazCom ✅✅Hazard Communication - classification, labels, SDS & training
GHS Requirement Dates ✅✅ER to train EE's by 12/1/2013, updates & additions by
6/1/16
Chemical label elements ✅✅1. Product identifier
2. Signal word
3. Pictogram
4. Hazard statement
5. Precautionary statements
6. Name, address, phone of supplier
SDS ✅✅16 sections
Report to OSHA ✅✅Within 8 hours - any fatalities
Within 24 hours - any hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye
OSHA 300 ✅✅All lost-workdays, restrictions, transfers, anything beyond first-aid
treatment. Required for ER's more than 10 EE's
OSHA 300 Right to Know ✅✅Right to view 300 for past 5 years. ER must provide by
end of next workday.
Notice of Contest ✅✅ER's disagreement with OSHA inspection results
OSHA inspection ✅✅Opening conf > walkthrough > closing conf
Results can take up to 6 months, then maybe citations, fines, etc.
imminent danger ✅✅Any condition where a high probability exists that an accident
may occur that will result in death or serious physical harm. "Good faith"
General Duty Clause ✅✅Statement in Occupational Safety and Health Act that
requires employers subject to OSHA to provide employees with a safe and healthy work
environment.
Profit Margin ✅✅net income/net sales
, Revenue required ✅✅Total cost of incident / profit margin
Indirect incident cost ✅✅Costs that are not recoverable by insurance company
Probability x Severity = ✅✅Risk
Fall protection criteria ✅✅4 ft - general industry
6 ft - construction
10 ft - scaffolds
15 ft - steel erection work
Hierarchy of hazard control ✅✅1. Elimination
2. Substitution
3. Risk transfer
4. Engineering control
5. Administrative control
6. PPE
Fall Prevention ✅✅• Selection of fall protection system
• Installation of fall system
• Supervision of employees
• Sage work procedures
• Proper training
• Proper maintenance of fall protection system
Physics of a fall ✅✅A body in free fall can travel 4 feet in 0.5 seconds, 16 feet in 1
second, 64 feet in 2 seconds, 144 feet in 3 seconds
ER's job to make sure walking/working surfaces have the... ✅✅Strength and
structural integrity to support the weight of workers (and tools, etc.)
3 tries of fall protection ✅✅1. Guardrail
2. Safety net
3. Personal fall arrest system
Rebar ✅✅Steel bar used to reinforce concrete.
Formwork ✅✅The term to describe the putting up of the skeleton of the building
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.
questions with correct answers
GHS ✅✅Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals
HazCom ✅✅Hazard Communication - classification, labels, SDS & training
GHS Requirement Dates ✅✅ER to train EE's by 12/1/2013, updates & additions by
6/1/16
Chemical label elements ✅✅1. Product identifier
2. Signal word
3. Pictogram
4. Hazard statement
5. Precautionary statements
6. Name, address, phone of supplier
SDS ✅✅16 sections
Report to OSHA ✅✅Within 8 hours - any fatalities
Within 24 hours - any hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye
OSHA 300 ✅✅All lost-workdays, restrictions, transfers, anything beyond first-aid
treatment. Required for ER's more than 10 EE's
OSHA 300 Right to Know ✅✅Right to view 300 for past 5 years. ER must provide by
end of next workday.
Notice of Contest ✅✅ER's disagreement with OSHA inspection results
OSHA inspection ✅✅Opening conf > walkthrough > closing conf
Results can take up to 6 months, then maybe citations, fines, etc.
imminent danger ✅✅Any condition where a high probability exists that an accident
may occur that will result in death or serious physical harm. "Good faith"
General Duty Clause ✅✅Statement in Occupational Safety and Health Act that
requires employers subject to OSHA to provide employees with a safe and healthy work
environment.
Profit Margin ✅✅net income/net sales
, Revenue required ✅✅Total cost of incident / profit margin
Indirect incident cost ✅✅Costs that are not recoverable by insurance company
Probability x Severity = ✅✅Risk
Fall protection criteria ✅✅4 ft - general industry
6 ft - construction
10 ft - scaffolds
15 ft - steel erection work
Hierarchy of hazard control ✅✅1. Elimination
2. Substitution
3. Risk transfer
4. Engineering control
5. Administrative control
6. PPE
Fall Prevention ✅✅• Selection of fall protection system
• Installation of fall system
• Supervision of employees
• Sage work procedures
• Proper training
• Proper maintenance of fall protection system
Physics of a fall ✅✅A body in free fall can travel 4 feet in 0.5 seconds, 16 feet in 1
second, 64 feet in 2 seconds, 144 feet in 3 seconds
ER's job to make sure walking/working surfaces have the... ✅✅Strength and
structural integrity to support the weight of workers (and tools, etc.)
3 tries of fall protection ✅✅1. Guardrail
2. Safety net
3. Personal fall arrest system
Rebar ✅✅Steel bar used to reinforce concrete.
Formwork ✅✅The term to describe the putting up of the skeleton of the building
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.
