Basic Safety II

What is the best way to protect yourself when working near moving vehicles and equipment?

• Set up reflective flags around your work area

• Wear a reflective vest

• Ensure that a qualified person is on the job site

• Have a signaler direct your movements.

If you are backing a vehicle and your rear vision is blocked, you should _____.

• move slowly and sound your horn repeatedly

• remove your seat belt, turn around, and back up slowly

• use a signaler to direct you

• get out of the vehicle, check the space behind you, and then carefully back up

When performing overhead work on scaffolding, what protective measures must be taken to prevent falling

objects from striking a person below?

• Fall arrest system

• alarm system

• Toeboards, debris nets, or canopies

• Warning tags on the scaffold

Benching systems cannot be used in _____.

• Type A

• Type B

• Type C

• Type Solid Rock

One of the most common grounding systems used for protection against accidental electrical shock is the

_____ wire system.

• Two

• three

• four

• five

With every power tool, use an assured ground program or _____.

• safety switch

• GFCI

• approved concealed recptacle

• power strip

To prevent cave-ins when excavating, treat all soil as if it is _____ , unless proven otherwise.

• Type A

• Type B

• Type C

• Solid Rock

The primary purpose of a machine guard on a tool is to _____.

• prevent theft

• protect the tool from damage

• reduce insurance rates

• protect the worker from rotating parts

A system that protects workers from hazardous energy while they work with machines and equipment is referred to as _____.

• a disconnect

• a barricade system

• lockout/ tagout

• an energy-neutral system

When gas welding or burning, welders are required to wear tinted goggles or welding hoods with a filter

lens of not less than a _____ shade.

• No. 2

• No.4

• No.8

• No. 10