What president signed the OSHA Act? - ANSWER Richard Nixon
What date was the OSHA Act signed? - Answer: December 29, 1970.
When did the OSHA agency come into being? - Answer: April 28, 1971.
What does "OSHA" stand for? ANSWER: Occupational Safety and Health
Administration.
What is the OSHA's mission? - ANSWER To provide safe and healthy working
conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards as
well as offering training, outreach, information, and assistance.
What kind of agency is OSHA? - An agency of the United States Department of
Labor.
What is the general duty clause? - ANSWER Shall offer employees
employment and a place of employment free from recognized dangers that
could cause death/serious physical harm; shall conform with OSHA
requirements; and each employee shall comply with OSHA standards, rules, and
regulations.
What three things must employers undertake to address OSHA safety/health
hazards? - ANSWER Follow, find, and correct.
How should employers inform their employees about chemical hazards? -
ANSWER Training, labels, alerts, colour-coded systems, and chemical
information sheets
What does SDS stand for? - ANSWER Safety Data Sheet.
What must the SDS include? - ANSWER Container labeling/worker training
(including the physical/health hazards of chemicals and how workers should
protect themselves)
, Employers should supply what to workers for free? - ANSWER PPE
Employers must keep reliable records of what? Related injuries and illnesses.
Employers must report fatalities within how many hours? - ANSWER 8.
Employers must disclose any work-related inpatient hospitalization, amputation,
or eye loss within 24 hours.
Employers must inform workers how to report what? - Answer: Injury.
Employers must make records available to who? - ANSWER Employees and
OSHA.
Employers must publish what three things where workers can see them? -
ANSWER Annual injury/illness summary statistics, OSHA citations, OSHA
"it's the law" poster
Employers cannot (blank) against any employee who exercises their legal
rights? - ANSWER: Retaliate.
What makes record keeping necessary? - ANSWER 10 or more employees,
injuries, or sickness.
What is the exception to the record-keeping rule? - ANSWER 10 or less
employees, or if you are part of an enterprise in a certain industry referenced in
the chart on page 442
Do employees have the right to such working conditions? - ANSWER Do not
pose a risk or cause major injury.
Employees have the right to obtain information/training (in a language they
understand) about what? - ANSWER Chemical and other risks, strategies to
prevent harm, and OSHA rules applicable to their workplace
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