ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
The mission of the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) is: - Precise Answer ✔✔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: - Precise
Answer ✔✔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? - Precise Answer ✔✔-- 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: - Precise Answer
✔✔Workplace and engineering controls
,The three main scaffold types are aerial lifts, supported scaffolds
and: - Precise Answer ✔✔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: - Precise Answer ✔✔-- 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:
- Precise Answer ✔✔Protect themselves by wearing proper PPE
OSHA defines an excavation as: - Precise Answer ✔✔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: - Precise Answer ✔✔-- 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: - Precise Answer ✔✔wrecking balls and jackhammers
OSHA's electrical standards are based on: - Precise Answer
✔✔the NEC
What are the four main types of electrical injuries? - Precise
Answer ✔✔Electrocution, electric shock, burns, indirect (e.g., a
fall from a ladder)
A shock's severity depends on: - Precise Answer ✔✔-- Length
of exposure to electricity
-- The amount of current and its frequency
-- The current's path
Electrical burns are the most serious of the three major types of
burns, and most often occur: - Precise Answer ✔✔On the hands,
from direct contact with current
Hot wires, ungrounded wires that can cause a shock if you touch
them, are usually: - Precise Answer ✔✔black or red