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Practice questions: general requirements

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Key takeaway

General Requirements is 25 of 115 scored questions and is largely OSHA.

  • These four cover fall protection triggers, scaffold capacity, reporting deadlines and the competent person definition.

Twenty-five questions, mostly numbers, and mostly answerable by lookup if your standards are tabbed.

Question 1

An ironworker is connecting steel at 12 feet above a lower level during steel erection. Is fall protection required under Subpart R?

  1. Yes, the trigger is 6 feet
  2. Yes, the trigger is 10 feet
  3. No, the trigger in steel erection is 15 feet
  4. Only if a guardrail is impracticable
Answer: C. Steel erection has its own trigger at 15 feet under 29 CFR 1926.760. Option A is the general construction trigger and option B is the scaffold trigger, both correct figures for different activities.
Question 2

A supported scaffold will carry a maximum intended load of 500 pounds. What must it be capable of supporting?

  1. 500 pounds
  2. 1,000 pounds
  3. 2,000 pounds
  4. 3,000 pounds
Answer: C. Four times the maximum intended load, at 29 CFR 1926.451(a)(1), so 2,000 pounds. Option D would be right for a suspension rope, which is six times, and that is the distractor being offered.
Question 3

An employee suffers an amputation on site. Within what period must it be reported to OSHA?

  1. 8 hours
  2. 24 hours
  3. 72 hours
  4. On the next OSHA 300 log entry
Answer: B. 24 hours for an inpatient hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye. Option A is the fatality deadline, and swapping the two is the commonest error in this area.
Question 4

Who must inspect an excavation daily and is authorized to order work stopped?

  1. A qualified person
  2. A competent person
  3. A registered professional engineer
  4. The site superintendent
Answer: B. A competent person - capable of identifying hazards AND authorized to take prompt corrective action. A qualified person has expertise but the definition says nothing about authority, which is what this question is testing.

The pattern

Every wrong option here is a correct figure or term from a neighboring rule. That is how this category is written throughout.

Establish the activity before reaching for a number.

Common questions

What is the steel erection fall protection trigger?

15 feet, against 6 feet in general construction and 10 feet on a scaffold.

What load must a scaffold support?

Four times the maximum intended load, and six times for suspension ropes.

How soon must an amputation be reported?

24 hours. Only a fatality is 8 hours.

Who inspects an excavation daily?

A competent person, who can both identify hazards and order work stopped.

How are wrong options built in this category?

From correct figures belonging to a neighboring rule or a different activity.

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