Q 01/05

OSHA is an agency within which part of the US federal government?

A) Commerce

B) Homeland Security

C) Health and Human Services

D) Labor

Answer · why

D) Labor

Labor is home to OSHA, a small agency for its task: with its state partners it fields only a couple of thousand inspectors for 130 million workers at ...

Q 02/05

Which president signed the Occupational Safety and Health Act into law on December 29, 1970?

A) Lyndon B. Johnson

B) Gerald Ford

C) Richard Nixon

D) Jimmy Carter

Answer · why

C) Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon signed it after a three-year fight: Lyndon Johnson, who called more than 14,000 job deaths a year 'the shame of a modern industrial nati...

Q 03/05

Which OSH Act provision requires employers to keep workplaces free of recognised hazards even without a specific rule?

A) The Catch-All Rule

B) The Universal Hazard Provision

C) The Reasonable Care Standard

D) The General Duty Clause

Answer · why

D) The General Duty Clause

The General Duty Clause, Section 5(a)(1) of the act, is what OSHA cites for hazards such as heat stress or workplace violence that have no dedicated s...

Q 04/05

Which of these groups is left outside the protection of the OSH Act?

A) Warehouse temps

B) Hospital nurses

C) The self-employed

D) Restaurant workers

Answer · why

C) The self-employed

The self-employed are left outside because the act works through employers, defined as people who have employees; farm employers' immediate family and...

Q 05/05

How must a state-run safety plan compare with federal OSHA?

A) Word-for-word identical

B) Measurably stricter

C) At least as effective

D) Equally funded

Answer · why

C) At least as effective

At least as effective as OSHA is the 1970 act's test; a state that passes it polices its own workplaces in place of federal inspectors, and Washington...