Questions and Answers | Question and
Answer | Grade A+
• What does OSHA stand for? -✓✓Occupational Safety and Health Administration
• What is OSHA's mission? -✓✓To assure safe and healthful working conditions
for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing
training, outreach, education, and assistance
• What type of agency is OSHA? -✓✓An agency of the U.S. department of labor
• What is the general duty clause ? -✓✓Shall furnish employees employment and a
place of employment free from recognized hazards that could cause death/ serious
physical harm, shall comply with OSHA standards, each employee shall comply
with OSHA standards, rules, regulations
• Employers must do what three things with OSHA safety/ health hazards? -
✓✓Follow, find, correct
• How should employers inform employees about chemical hazards? -✓✓Training,
labels, alarms, color-coded systems, chemical information sheets
• SDS stands for? -✓✓Safety Data Sheet
• SDS must include? -✓✓Container labeling/ worker training (include the physical/
health hazards of chemicals and how workers can protect themselves
• Employers should provide what to workers at no cost? -✓✓PPE
• Employers must keep accurate records of what? -✓✓Related injuries and
illnesses
• Employers must report fatalities in how many hours? -✓✓8
, • Employers must report any work related inpatient hospitalization/ amputation/
loss of an eye? -✓✓24 hours
• Employers must inform workers how to report what? -✓✓Injury
• Employers must make records available/ accessible to who? -✓✓Employees and
OSHA
• Employers must post what three things where it is visible to workers? -
✓✓Annual injury/ illness summary data, OSHA citations, OSHA "it's the law"
poster
• Employers cannot (blank) against any worker using their rights under the law? -
✓✓Retaliate
• Record keeping is necessary if what? -✓✓10 or more employees or injuries/
illnesses
• What is the exception to the record keeping rule? -✓✓10 or fewer employees or if
you are apart of an establishment in a certain industry referenced in the chart on
page 442
• Employees have the right to working conditions that? -✓✓Do not pose a risk or
serious harm
• Employees have the right to receive information/ training (in a language they can
understand) on what? -✓✓Chemical and other hazards, methods to prevent harm,
and OSHA standards that apply to their workplace
• Employees have the right to get copies of what? -✓✓Test results done to find and
measure hazards in the work place
• Employees have the right to file a complaint with who? -✓✓OSHA
• Employees have the right to participate in what type of inspection? -✓✓OSHA
inspection
• Employees the right to be free from what from employers? -✓✓Retaliation