2026 OSHA 500 UPDATED COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What equipment should masonry machinery like pumping systems, buckets, and
storage bins have to ensure safe operation? - ✔✔Should be equipped with conical or
tapered
bottoms and mechanical or pneumatic means of starting material flow.
✔✔What safe practices should be used for formwork and shoring? - ✔✔Formwork
should be designed, fabricated, erected, supported, braced and maintained so
that it will be capable of supporting, without failure, all vertical and lateral loads.
Shoring equipment, including equipment used in re-shoring operations, must be
inspected prior to erection.
✔✔How much weight should jacking equipment be capable of supporting? - ✔✔At least
two and one-half times the load being lifted.
✔✔When and how should limited access zones be established? - ✔✔o The limited
access zone should be established prior to the start of wall construction.
o The limited access zone should be equal to the height of the wall to be constructed
plus four feet, and should run the entire length of the wall.
o The limited access zone should be established.on the side of the wall that will not
have scaffolding.
o The limited access zone should be restricted to entry by employees actively engaged
in constructing the wall
✔✔When is it necessary to brace masonry walls? - ✔✔All masonry walls over eight feet
in height should be adequately braced to prevent overturning and collapse.
, ✔✔What precautions and preparations must be done before demolition operations? -
✔✔An engineering survey of the structure.
All gas, water, steam, and sewer lines should be shut off or capped.
Wall openings should be protected to a height of 42 inches.
✔✔What safe practices should be used when debris is dropped through holes in floors?
- ✔✔Should be completely enclosed with barricades not less than 42 inches in height
and not less than 6 feet back from the projected edge of the opening above.
✔✔How can stairways, ladders, and chutes be made safe during demolition operations?
- ✔✔Should be periodically inspected and maintained in a clean and safe working
condition.
✔✔How should masonry walls be safely handled, braced, and demolished? - ✔✔Should
not be allowed to fall upon the floors of the building.
No wall section more than one-story in height should be permitted to stand alone
without bracing.
Should be durably planked except when employees are kept out of the area below.
Walls serving as retaining walls to support earth or adjoining structures should not be
demolished until the earth has been properly braced or until adjoining structures have
been properly underpinned.
✔✔What methods should employees use to safely remove floors during demolition
operations? - ✔✔Should not be removed from more than one floor above grade
✔✔When are inspections necessary for demolition operations? - ✔✔Continuous
inspections.
✔✔Fixed ladder: - ✔✔A ladder that cannot be readily moved or carried because it is an
integral part of a building or structure.
✔✔Handrail: - ✔✔A rail used to provide employees with a handhold for support.
✔✔Job made ladder: - ✔✔A ladder that is fabricated by employees, typically at the
construction site.
✔✔Portable ladder: - ✔✔A ladder that can be readily moved or carried.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What equipment should masonry machinery like pumping systems, buckets, and
storage bins have to ensure safe operation? - ✔✔Should be equipped with conical or
tapered
bottoms and mechanical or pneumatic means of starting material flow.
✔✔What safe practices should be used for formwork and shoring? - ✔✔Formwork
should be designed, fabricated, erected, supported, braced and maintained so
that it will be capable of supporting, without failure, all vertical and lateral loads.
Shoring equipment, including equipment used in re-shoring operations, must be
inspected prior to erection.
✔✔How much weight should jacking equipment be capable of supporting? - ✔✔At least
two and one-half times the load being lifted.
✔✔When and how should limited access zones be established? - ✔✔o The limited
access zone should be established prior to the start of wall construction.
o The limited access zone should be equal to the height of the wall to be constructed
plus four feet, and should run the entire length of the wall.
o The limited access zone should be established.on the side of the wall that will not
have scaffolding.
o The limited access zone should be restricted to entry by employees actively engaged
in constructing the wall
✔✔When is it necessary to brace masonry walls? - ✔✔All masonry walls over eight feet
in height should be adequately braced to prevent overturning and collapse.
, ✔✔What precautions and preparations must be done before demolition operations? -
✔✔An engineering survey of the structure.
All gas, water, steam, and sewer lines should be shut off or capped.
Wall openings should be protected to a height of 42 inches.
✔✔What safe practices should be used when debris is dropped through holes in floors?
- ✔✔Should be completely enclosed with barricades not less than 42 inches in height
and not less than 6 feet back from the projected edge of the opening above.
✔✔How can stairways, ladders, and chutes be made safe during demolition operations?
- ✔✔Should be periodically inspected and maintained in a clean and safe working
condition.
✔✔How should masonry walls be safely handled, braced, and demolished? - ✔✔Should
not be allowed to fall upon the floors of the building.
No wall section more than one-story in height should be permitted to stand alone
without bracing.
Should be durably planked except when employees are kept out of the area below.
Walls serving as retaining walls to support earth or adjoining structures should not be
demolished until the earth has been properly braced or until adjoining structures have
been properly underpinned.
✔✔What methods should employees use to safely remove floors during demolition
operations? - ✔✔Should not be removed from more than one floor above grade
✔✔When are inspections necessary for demolition operations? - ✔✔Continuous
inspections.
✔✔Fixed ladder: - ✔✔A ladder that cannot be readily moved or carried because it is an
integral part of a building or structure.
✔✔Handrail: - ✔✔A rail used to provide employees with a handhold for support.
✔✔Job made ladder: - ✔✔A ladder that is fabricated by employees, typically at the
construction site.
✔✔Portable ladder: - ✔✔A ladder that can be readily moved or carried.
