OSHA 500 PRACTICE EXAM 2024-
2025|BRAND NEW EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS ALL
GAREDED A+|GUARANTEED
SUCCESS|LATEST UPDATE
ANSI - ANSWER-✔American National Standards Institue
Authorized Person - ANSWER-✔A person approved or assigned by the employer to
perform a specific type
of duty or duties
NIOSH - ANSWER-✔National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
What is the purpose of OSHA? - ANSWER-✔To reduce workplace hazards
Occupational Safety and Health Standard - ANSWER-✔A standard which requires to
provide safe or healthful employment or places of employment
Who is covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Act - ANSWER-✔Every
working man and woman in the nation safe and healthful working conditions.
What does the General Duty clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH
Act)
state? - ANSWER-✔Employer is required to provide his/her
employees with a workplace that is "free from recognized hazards that are causing
or are
likely to cause death or serious harm" to employees.
What are the types of OSHA inspections? - ANSWER-✔1. Imminent danger
inspections
2. Catastrophic and fatal accident inspections
,3. Employee complaint inspections
4. Programmed high hazard inspections
5. Re-inspections
What types of violations and penalties may OSHA issue following an inspection? -
ANSWER-✔1. Other-than-serious violation
2. Serious violation
3. Willful violation
4. Repeated violation
5. Failure to abate
What are workers' rights and responsibilities? - ANSWER-✔1. Reading and
understanding safety materials, following safe procedures, wearing the property
gear, and reporting hazardous conditions in the
workplace.
2. To Identify and correct problems in their workplaces, working with their
employers to correct these problems whenever possible.
3. To complain to OSHA in person, by telephone, fax, mail or electronic
correspondence via the OSHA website about workplace conditions that
threaten their health or safety.
4. To seek safe and healthful working conditions without being disciplined or fired by
their employer.
Competent person: - ANSWER-✔A person capable of identifying existing and
predictable hazards in the work environment that are unsanitary, hazardous or
dangerous to employees and who is authorized to correct hazards.
Confined space: - ANSWER-✔Any space having a limited means of egress including,
but not limited to, storage tanks, process vessels, bins, boilers, ventilation or exhaust
ducts, sewers, underground utility vaults, tunnels, pipelines and open top spaces
more than four feet in depth such as pits, tubs, vaults and vessels.
Egress: - ANSWER-✔A path or opening used for the purpose of exiting an area
Hazardous Substance: - ANSWER-✔A substance which, by reason of being explosive,
flammable, poisonous, corrosive, oxidizing, irritating, or otherwise harmful, is likely
to cause death or injury.
Qualified: - ANSWER-✔A person who is qualified as a result of a recognized degree
or certificate.
True or False: Employers of 10 or more employees must maintain records of
occupational injuries and
illnesses. - ANSWER-✔True
, True or False: All employers must report to OSHA within eight hours of any accident
that results in a fatality or of any accident that results in the in-patient
hospitalization of one employee. - ANSWER-✔True
True or False: Records must be maintained at the establishment for seven years and
must be available for
inspection by OSHA, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) and Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). - ANSWER-✔False: 5 years
OSHA recordkeeping forms include: - ANSWER-✔1. OSHA 300 Log
2. OSHA 300A Summary
3. OSHA 301 Incident Report
What are the requirements for workplace fire protection and prevention? -
ANSWER-✔The employer is responsible for the development of a fire protection
plan.
Employer is responsible for providing all necessary firefighting equipment.
What are the basic requirements for housekeeping and personal protective
equipment? - ANSWER-✔Housekeeping: Containers must be provided for the
collection and separation of waste, trash, oily and used rags and other refuse.
PPE: Responsible for requiring that employees wear appropriate personal protective
equipment in all operations where there is an exposure to hazardous conditions.
What must be included in Emergency Action Plans? - ANSWER-✔1. Emergency
escape procedures and emergency escape route assignments.
2. Procedures to be followed by employees who remain to operate critical plant
operations before evacuating.
3. Procedures to account for all employees after emergency evacuations are
completed.
4. Rescue and medical duties for those employees who are to perform them.
5. The preferred means of reporting fires and other emergencies.
6. Names or regular job titles of persons or departments who can be contacted for
further information or explanation of duties under the plan.
Abrasive: - ANSWER-✔A solid substance used in an abrasive-blasting operation.
Acute: - ANSWER-✔Effects that usually occur rapidly as a result of short-term
exposures and which are of a short-term duration.
2025|BRAND NEW EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS ALL
GAREDED A+|GUARANTEED
SUCCESS|LATEST UPDATE
ANSI - ANSWER-✔American National Standards Institue
Authorized Person - ANSWER-✔A person approved or assigned by the employer to
perform a specific type
of duty or duties
NIOSH - ANSWER-✔National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
What is the purpose of OSHA? - ANSWER-✔To reduce workplace hazards
Occupational Safety and Health Standard - ANSWER-✔A standard which requires to
provide safe or healthful employment or places of employment
Who is covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Act - ANSWER-✔Every
working man and woman in the nation safe and healthful working conditions.
What does the General Duty clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH
Act)
state? - ANSWER-✔Employer is required to provide his/her
employees with a workplace that is "free from recognized hazards that are causing
or are
likely to cause death or serious harm" to employees.
What are the types of OSHA inspections? - ANSWER-✔1. Imminent danger
inspections
2. Catastrophic and fatal accident inspections
,3. Employee complaint inspections
4. Programmed high hazard inspections
5. Re-inspections
What types of violations and penalties may OSHA issue following an inspection? -
ANSWER-✔1. Other-than-serious violation
2. Serious violation
3. Willful violation
4. Repeated violation
5. Failure to abate
What are workers' rights and responsibilities? - ANSWER-✔1. Reading and
understanding safety materials, following safe procedures, wearing the property
gear, and reporting hazardous conditions in the
workplace.
2. To Identify and correct problems in their workplaces, working with their
employers to correct these problems whenever possible.
3. To complain to OSHA in person, by telephone, fax, mail or electronic
correspondence via the OSHA website about workplace conditions that
threaten their health or safety.
4. To seek safe and healthful working conditions without being disciplined or fired by
their employer.
Competent person: - ANSWER-✔A person capable of identifying existing and
predictable hazards in the work environment that are unsanitary, hazardous or
dangerous to employees and who is authorized to correct hazards.
Confined space: - ANSWER-✔Any space having a limited means of egress including,
but not limited to, storage tanks, process vessels, bins, boilers, ventilation or exhaust
ducts, sewers, underground utility vaults, tunnels, pipelines and open top spaces
more than four feet in depth such as pits, tubs, vaults and vessels.
Egress: - ANSWER-✔A path or opening used for the purpose of exiting an area
Hazardous Substance: - ANSWER-✔A substance which, by reason of being explosive,
flammable, poisonous, corrosive, oxidizing, irritating, or otherwise harmful, is likely
to cause death or injury.
Qualified: - ANSWER-✔A person who is qualified as a result of a recognized degree
or certificate.
True or False: Employers of 10 or more employees must maintain records of
occupational injuries and
illnesses. - ANSWER-✔True
, True or False: All employers must report to OSHA within eight hours of any accident
that results in a fatality or of any accident that results in the in-patient
hospitalization of one employee. - ANSWER-✔True
True or False: Records must be maintained at the establishment for seven years and
must be available for
inspection by OSHA, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) and Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). - ANSWER-✔False: 5 years
OSHA recordkeeping forms include: - ANSWER-✔1. OSHA 300 Log
2. OSHA 300A Summary
3. OSHA 301 Incident Report
What are the requirements for workplace fire protection and prevention? -
ANSWER-✔The employer is responsible for the development of a fire protection
plan.
Employer is responsible for providing all necessary firefighting equipment.
What are the basic requirements for housekeeping and personal protective
equipment? - ANSWER-✔Housekeeping: Containers must be provided for the
collection and separation of waste, trash, oily and used rags and other refuse.
PPE: Responsible for requiring that employees wear appropriate personal protective
equipment in all operations where there is an exposure to hazardous conditions.
What must be included in Emergency Action Plans? - ANSWER-✔1. Emergency
escape procedures and emergency escape route assignments.
2. Procedures to be followed by employees who remain to operate critical plant
operations before evacuating.
3. Procedures to account for all employees after emergency evacuations are
completed.
4. Rescue and medical duties for those employees who are to perform them.
5. The preferred means of reporting fires and other emergencies.
6. Names or regular job titles of persons or departments who can be contacted for
further information or explanation of duties under the plan.
Abrasive: - ANSWER-✔A solid substance used in an abrasive-blasting operation.
Acute: - ANSWER-✔Effects that usually occur rapidly as a result of short-term
exposures and which are of a short-term duration.
