Why is OSHA important to you? ✔️✔️OSHA makes a difference and brings down the rate of fatalities
and injuries in the workplace
What does OSHA stand for? ✔️✔️Occupational Safety and Health Administraion
What is OSHA's responsibility? ✔️✔️To improve worker safety and health protection
Who and when did he sign the OSH Act? ✔️✔️President Nixon on December 29, 1970
When was the OSHA implemented? ✔️✔️April 28, 1971
What is OSHA's mission? ✔️✔️To assure safe and healthful working conditions by setting and
enforcing standards by providing training, outreach, education and assistance
What rights do you have under OSHA? ✔️✔️- Safe and healthful workplace
- Know about hazardous chemicals
- Report injury to employer
- Request hazard correct from employer
- Training
- Hazard exposure and medical records
- File a complaint to OSHA
- Participate in OSHA inspection
- Be free from retaliation
In OSHA's record keeping rule it requires most employers with more than _______ workers to keep a log
of injuries and illnesses. ✔️✔️10
Do workers have the right o report an injury and review the current record keeping log? ✔️✔️Yes
, Do workers have the right to view the annually posted summary of the injuries and illnesses (OSHA
300A)? ✔️✔️Yes
When is OSHA 300A posted? ✔️✔️February 1- April 30
What standard is the right to examine and copy records? ✔️✔️1910.1020
What are the 3 types of physical agents? ✔️✔️- Metals and dusts (lead)
- Biological agents (virus)
- Physical stress (noise)
T/F Workers may file a confidential complaint with OSHA if they believe a violation of a safety or health
standard, or an imminent danger situation exists in the workplace? ✔️✔️True
Can workers request that their name not be revealed to the employer when filing a complaint to OSHA?
✔️✔️Yes
T/F If a worker files a complaint, they have the right to find out OSHA's action on the complaint and
request a review if an inspection is not made? ✔️✔️True
Can employee representative accompany an OSHA inspector in an inspection and talk to the inspector
privately? ✔️✔️Yes
Are workers able to find out about inspection results, abatement measures and object to dates set for
violation to be corrected? ✔️✔️Yes
What section is 11 (c)? ✔️✔️Your right as a whistleblower