OSHA 30 Health and Safety Program

OSHA 30 Health and Safety Program

Exemplary workplaces share all these common characteristics EXCEPT:

• Re-evaluate effectiveness of existing programs
• Regular inspections for hazards
• Strict adherence to original safety plan
• Training of all employees about hazards ✔✔Strict adherence to original safety plan

Where can anyone go to access OSHA regulations, expert advisors, directives, publications, and other tools?

• Government publications section of a public library
• Employee resource room at major companies
• One of ten OSHA regional centers
• OSHA's website ✔✔OSHA's website

Management commitment and employee involvement in a safety program is demonstrated by all

these actions EXCEPT:

• Annual review and revision of the program
• Employee involvement in safety meetings and inspections
• Union oversight alone, if the worksite is unionize

• Management observance of safety rules ✔✔Union oversight alone, if the worksite is unionized

Comprehensive worksite analysis should involve all these hazards EXCEPT:

• Existing
• Potential
• Anticipated
• Corrected ✔✔Corrected

What may employers who are accepted into the Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP) receive from OSHA?

• Star designation in the VPP program
• Exemption from programmed inspections
• Exemption from accident inspections
• Susan Harwood Training Grant ✔✔Exemption from programmed inspections

An effective hazards identification process will meet all these criteria EXCEPT:

• Comprehensive
• Periodic
• Secret

• Routine ✔✔Secret

Employers who implement effective health and safety programs should expect all these results

EXCEPT:

• Improved safety
• Improved employee morale
• Decreased workers' compensation costs
• Decreased, though slight, productivity ✔✔Decreased, though slight, productivity

An effective occupational safety and health program will include all of the following elements

EXCEPT:

• Management commitment and employee involvement
• Systemic identification and random evaluation
• Worksite hazard analysis and safety training
• Hazard prevention and control programs ✔✔Systematic identification and random evaluation

OSHA's Strategic Partnership Program is intended to improve workplace safety by:

• Building cooperative relationships among groups of employers and employees
• Developing one-on-one relationships with single companies
• Supporting small businesses in their safety training efforts

• Enabling employees to report safety violations anonymously ✔✔Building cooperative

relationships among groups of employers and employees

At the end of how many months should an employer review the OSHA Form 300 for completeness, accuracy and correction of any deficiencies?

• Three
• Six
• Twelve
• Twenty-four ✔✔Twelve