OSHA Basic Orientation Plus
1. What is the most frequently cited OSHA violation?
ANSWER : Fall Protection
2. What key elements are essential to recognizing hazards and reducing or eliminating
workplace hazards?
ANSWER : Management commitment and employee involvement
3. You are encouraged to ask your coworkers/supervisor for information whenever you
have a problem or are in doubt about what to do on a job?
ANSWER : True
4. It is your responsibility to follow all safety regulations, inform your employer of any
unsafe condition; report all injuries no matter how minor they seem and wear the proper
personal protective equipment?
ANSWER : True
5. The OSHA standard that addresses the requirements for preventing and lessening the
results of a bad release of toxic, reactive, flammable, or highly explosive hazardous
chemicals from a process
ANSWER : Process safety management Standard
6. The process Hazard Analysis (PHA) is one of the most important parts of the PSM
program. PHAs are used to identify and evaluate major processes and ensure they are
ANSWER : Evaluated, Controlled, and Identified
7. In the PSM standard OSHA states employees must be trained if they work with highly
hazardous chemicals.
ANSWER : True
8. Facilities are not permitted to control your entrance and exit in covered process areas.
ANSWER : False
9. What should be your first concern from the moment you enter the work site?
ANSWER : Safety
10. Under the Stop Work Authority, you have the right and obligation to stop a work activity
if you have reason to believe your own safety or a coworkers safety is in jeopardy or if
the work plan is not clearly established or understood .
ANSWER : True
11. What's needed in order to operate a plant
owned vehicle or mobile equipment while at a facility
ANSWER : qualified only authorized only
12. What type of work permits you may encounter on the job
ANSWER : safe work permits confined space entry permits, hot work permits, line entry
or line breaking permits, lockout/tagout permits
13. if you are replacing a piece of equipment the new one should be the same as the one
being removed. If its not you should find out whether the change was on purpose. what is
this called
ANSWER : Management of change
14. Used only where an immediate life threatening hazard exists
ANSWER : Danger
15. Used where immediate non life threatening hazards exist
ANSWER : Warning Sign
16. Used to warn against potential hazards or to caution against unsafe practices
ANSWER : Caution signs
17. Physical devices that are designed to prevent entry into an area where hazards are
present.
ANSWER : Barriers
18. Obstacles that discourage the passage of persons or vehicles
ANSWER : Barricade
19. When lifting or setting down a load, bend at the
ANSWER : Knees
20. If you experience pain or discomfort as a result of your work activities, you should do
what?
ANSWER : report it to your supervisor as soon as possible
21. What are the most common diseases caused by bloodborne pathogens in the workplace
ANSWER : Human Immunodeficiency, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C
22. Universal precautions is an infection control approach where you treat all blood and body
fluids as if they are known to be infectious for bloodborne pathogens only if the injured
person is sick
ANSWER : False
23. What is the least severe rating in the GHS classification system
ANSWER : Four
24. What is the most severe rating in the GHS classification system
ANSWER : One
25. what does Hazard color RED means?
ANSWER : Fire
26. What does Hazard color BLUE means?
ANSWER : Health
27. What does Hazard color YELLOW mean?
ANSWER : Reactivity
28. What does Hazard color WHITE mean?
ANSWER : Personal protection other hazards ans special precautions
29. What does the HMIS color BLUE indicate?
ANSWER : Health
30. What does the HMIS color ORANGE indicate?
ANSWER : Physical hazard
31. What does the HMIS color RED indicate?
ANSWER : Flammability
32. What does the HMIS color WHITE indicate?
ANSWER : Required personal protective equipment
33. In what section of the SDS can you find the hazards of hydrogen sulfide
ANSWER : Section 2
34. Which section of the SDS lists the measures should you take if exposed to hydrogen
sulfide?
ANSWER : section 4
35. Where in the SDS can you find what, if any, personal protective equipment (PPE) is
required?
ANSWER : Section 8
36. Physical/health hazards cause illness or injury
ANSWER : True
37. always test the atmosphere in the work area prior to starting the job when the site is
greater than how many feet?
ANSWER : four
38. For an excavation that is 4 feet deep or more, egress points must be spaced no more than
how many feet of lateral travel for employees?
ANSWER : 25
39. narrow excavation made below the surface of the ground in which the depth is usually
greater than the width and the width does not exceed how many fee?
ANSWER : 15
40. What are the main methods for protecting workers from a cave
in
ANSWER : Shielding, Sloping, shoring
41. In an emergency you should call emergency response with the
ANSWER : Exact location, number of victims
42. Excavation measurements, special hazards at the location
43. What elements are required in order for a fire to happen?
ANSWER : Heat, fuel, oxygen
44. What color does white represent under the NFPA label
ANSWER : Other hazards and special precautions
45. what is used on scaffolding after inspections are completed
ANSWER : Scaffold tags
46. what are base plates and mudsills used for?
ANSWER : Distribute scaffold load weight
47. What is performed regularly at job sites
ANSWER : Inspections
48. What are four main types of scaffolds
ANSWER : Frame, rolling, tube, system
49. A vertical barrier at floor level erected along exposed edges of a floor opening wall
opening, platform, runway, or ramp to prevent falls of materials.
ANSWER : Toe board
50. what is an opening in the floor, platform or pavement measuring 12 inches or more and
through which people may fall?
ANSWER : Floor hole
51. What is an opening in the floor, platform or pavement measuring less than 12 inches but
more than one inch through which materials, but not people may fall called?
ANSWER : Floor opening
52. what is the first step in lockout/tagout to prevent the unexpected release of energy
ANSWER : Preparation for shutdown
