Who has to comply with OSHA?
Congress created OSHA to assure safe and healthful conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and providing training, outreach, education and compliance assistance. Under the OSHA law, employers are responsible for providing a safe and healthful workplace for their workers.
Which of the following are employers required to do under OSHA?
Provide a workplace free from serious recognized hazards and comply with standards, rules and regulations issued under the OSH Act. Examine workplace conditions to make sure they conform to applicable OSHA standards. Make sure employees have and use safe tools and equipment and properly maintain this equipment.
What are the responsibilities of the employer under the Health and Safety at Work Act?
It is an employer’s duty to protect the health, safety and welfare of their employees and other people who might be affected by their business. Employers must give you information about the risks in your workplace and how you are protected, also instruct and train you on how to deal with the risks.
What are the four groups of OSHA standards?
OSHA standards are rules that describe the methods that employers must use to protect their employees from hazards. There are four groups of OSHA standards: General Industry, Construction, Maritime, and Agriculture.
What are the four classifications of employers under OSHA’s multi employer worksite policy?
On multi-employer worksites, OSHA recognizes four types of employers: creating, controlling, exposing, and correcting.
What business is exempt from OSHA?
OSHA exempt industries include businesses regulated by different federal statutes such as nuclear power and mining companies, domestic services employers, businesses that do not engage in interstate commerce, and farms that have only immediate family members as employees.
Can an OSHA fine be self employed?
Answer: Although OSHA has no authority to issue citations to a self-employed construction worker (with no employees), where a general contractor has hired that individual to work at the site, the general contractor can, by contract, require that individual to abide by the practices set out in OSHA standards.
What type of employers can be cited by OSHA?
OSHA breaks employers down into the following four categories: the Creating Employer, the Exposing Employer, the Correcting Employer, and the Controlling Employer. These categories are not mutually exclusive, as a single employer may perform more than one of these roles.
Can controlling employers be cited by OSHA?
If the construction manager is a controlling employer, it can only be cited for OSHA violations as a controlling employer if it has failed to exercise reasonable care to meet its OSHA responsibilities.
What is the trigger height for fall protection?
Four feet
Is fall protection required on ladders?
Portable ladders: fall protection is not required for employees climbing or working on portable ladders. Neither the ladder standard (29 CFR 1926, subpart X) nor the fall protection standard (29 CFR 1926, subpart M) requires fall protection for workers while working on portable ladders.