Reference no: EM133515737
Use this source below to help find your answers. Some are multiple choice questions and some are short answers. Haight, J. M. (Ed.) (2023) Safety Professionals Handbook. (Third Edition). American Society of Safety Professionals.
1. A permit-to-work system is best described as what type of hazard control relative to the hierarchy of controls?
A. Engineering Control
B. Personal Protective Equipment
C. Administrative Control
D. Elimination
2. Explain how a permit-to-work system protects workers from hazards?
3. Name three common applications/situations/types of work where permit-to-work systems are frequently used as part of an effort to control hazards?
4. Name three common energy sources that must commonly be considered when working on equipment/machinery/processes warranting the application of lockout-tagout?
5. If one were to summarize the four essential/broad requirements of employers pursuant to OSHA's lockout/tagout standard, what would they be?
6. According to OSHA's standard on permit required confined spaces, which of the following scenarios would present a non-permit required confined space?
A. A street manhole approximately 10 feet deep that has an electrical pump, sewer pipes/valves and water piping.
B. An above ground tank used to store process water.
C. An above ground tank used to store a hazardous chemical.
D. An electrical equipment room accessible by an ordinary door.
7. What are three common categories of hazards/potential hazards, that would make a confined space be deemed a permit-required confined space?
8. What conditions and/or requirements must exist in order for OSHA to allow an employer to reclassify a permit-required confined space as a non-permit required confined space?