OSHA's Record Keeping and Reporting Quiz

To assure safe and healthful working conditions for every working man and woman in the nation and to preserve human resources.

Workplace accidents causing an average of 14,000 deaths, 2.5 million workers disabled in workplace accidents, and approximately 300,000 new cases of occupational diseases reported.

To ensure safe and healthful working conditions for employees and to provide information, training, and assistance to employers.

To involve open discussion between the officer and company & employee representatives.

To inform the employer of OSHA violations.

To penalize the employer for OSHA violations found during workplace inspections.

Up to $7,000 for each violation.

A violation in which there is a high probability that death or serious physical injury may result, and the employer knew or should have known of the hazard.

A minimum penalty of $5,000 for each violation.

A substantially similar violation found on reinspection, where the original citation must be final.

Consultation, Voluntary protection programs, Training & education services.

Professional safety & health consultants who are not OSHA employees.

To recognize, motivate, and promote positive, cooperative relationships among employers, employees, and OSHA.

Implement new & improve existing safety/health programs, encourage research for innovative solutions, establish employer and employee rights, monitor job-related illnesses and injuries, establish training programs, enforce safety & health standards, and provide for the development and approval of state-level programs.

Yes, the OSH Act applies to most employers, including those with even one employee.

Employers with 10 or fewer employees, self-employed persons, family farms employing immediate family members, federal agencies covered by other federal statutes, state and local governments, and coal mines regulated by mining-specific laws.

The general duty clause requires employers to provide a workplace free from hazards likely to harm employees, especially in situations without specific OSHA standards.

OSHA standards address specific hazards, while regulations are more generic or specific, and may not apply to specific hazards.

OSHA standards are part of the CFR, published by the Office of the Federal Register, and are divided into parts and sections.

OSHA can pass temporary emergency standards when workers are in imminent danger from exposure to a hazard not already covered.

A standard can be appealed by any person opposed to it, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals serving the geographic region in which the complainant lives or does business.

The OSH Act covers employers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and all other territories under U.S. government jurisdiction.

The purpose is to ensure the effectiveness and compliance of state-level safety & health programs.

The requirement for a public hearing ensures transparency and allows interested parties to voice their concerns or opinions.

The purpose is to ensure a safe and healthy work environment through enforceable standards.

Provide a workplace free from hazards, comply with standards, keep employees informed about OSHA, examine workplace conditions, ensure safe tools & equipment, use color codes to warn of hazards, establish operating procedures, provide medical examinations, provide required training, report fatal accidents to OSHA.

Continually examine workplace conditions to ensure they conform to standards.

Ensure employees have, and use, safe tools & equipment that is properly maintained.

Establish or update operating procedures and communicate them so that employees follow safety & health requirements.

Within eight hours.

Medical examinations.

Use color codes, posters, labels, or signs as appropriate.

Be knowledgeable of, and comply with standards, rules, and regulations issued under the OSH Act, and make copies available to employees upon request.

Provide the training required by OSHA standards.

Provide a workplace free from hazards causing, or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees.

To track and report occupational illnesses and injuries.

For a minimum of three years.

For every incidence of a recordable injury or illness.

Employers with 10 or fewer employees, and employers in real estate, finance, retail trade, and insurance.

Post material and provide access to OSH Act and OSHA rules, as well as hazardous materials exposure records and medical surveillance records.

It is punishable by fine, imprisonment, or both.

The OSHA compliance officer presents his/her credentials to a company official.

The compliance officer discusses why the plant was selected for inspection, the purpose of the inspection, scope, and applicable standards.

Death of one or more workers, one or more days away from work, restricted motion or work restrictions, loss of consciousness, transfer to another job, medical treatment beyond in-house first aid, and other conditions listed in Appendix B of the rule.

To request exemptions or modifications from specific OSHA standards.

To address complaints about the injury and illness record-keeping system and initiate improvements.

To observe, interview personnel, examine records, take readings, and photos.