Workplace Safety Walking/Working Surfaces Topic-2

What is OSHA’s mission?

• To have personnel in every workplace in the nation.

• To save lives, prevent injuries, and to protect the health of American workers.

• To ensure all workers compensation claims are paid.

View the image and decide whether it has good maintenance or bad maintenance.

• Good Maintenace

• Bad Maintenance

View the image and decide whether it has good maintenance or bad maintenance.

• Good Maintenance

• Bad Maintenance

Which of the following answer options are your employer's responsibility?

(select 3)

• Providing work conditions free from fall hazards

• Providing wage raises on a regular basis

• Providing training to workers about job hazards

• Providing PPE at no cost to workers

Gina will be working on the overhead sprinkler system using a scissor lift. What should Gina do to keep herself safe?

(select four)

• Make sure she extends the lift to its maximum height.

• Determine that a guardrail is in place.

• Stand only on the platform of the lift.

• Suspend her work materials off the side of the platform.

• Keep materials and tools within easy reach.

Murray needs to use a scissor lift to replace some protective netting at one of his city's athletic parks. What should Murray's employer address before Murray sets up and operates the scissor lift outdoors.

(select four)

• Proximity to electrical power sources

• Wind speed

• Ground instability.

• Insurance for the lift

• Employee training

Which of the following statements about fixed ladders are true?

(3 correct answers)

• Any worker ascending a fixed ladder must be qualified climbers will additional training.

• Employers are required to have ladder safety or personal fall or personal arrest systems for fixed ladders that extend more than 24 ft.

• FFAS and ladder safety systems are required for any fixed ladders that extend more than 5 ft.

• Fixed ladders are permanently attached to a structure, a building, or equipment.

How did Sam and Bryan use the extension ladder improperly?

• They didn't check the weight limits, use a tall ladder, or inspect the ladder.

• They used a ladder without slip-resistant pads, and the ladder wasn't in good shape.

• They put the ladder on uneven ground, and near power lines, and the ladder wasn't tied off.

• All of the answers are correct.

Did Sam work safely on the stepladder?

• Yes, he sat on the top step.

• Yes, he only leaned away from the stepladder when he needed to.

• No, he used the top step of the step ladder and leaned away to paint the wall.

To access a landing that is nine feet above the adjacent floor, a worker climbs an unsecured 10-foot ladder that has slip-resistant feet.

Does this ladder pose a fall hazard to the worker?

• yes

• no