Exam 6: The Osh Act, Standards, and Liability

Monitoring and evaluating state-level safety and health programs is NOT part of OSHA's mission.

OSHA's Program that focuses on employers that willfully and repeatedly endanger workers is known as:

Under the OSH Law, employers are not responsible for the level of safety and health found in their workplace.

Before OSHA can adopt, amend, or revoke a standard, it must publish its intentions in the Federal Register.

Self-employed business people and family farms that employ only family members fall outside the jurisdiction of the OSH Act.

The major argument against government regulations such as those promulgated by OSHA is that they increase the cost of doing business.

The money collected by OSHA from the fines it levies go directly into OSHA's budget for salary increases and other expenses.

The broad mission of OSHA is to ensure to the extent possible that a worker in the United States has a safe and healthy work environment.

Which of the following states has adopted OSHA-approved state safety plans?

OSHA's "Guide to Restroom Access for Transgender Workers" has been criticized as an example of the agency getting inappropriately involved in politics.

OSHA takes a cautionary stand on safety incentives out of concern that they might cause companies to under-report incidents and accidents.

OSHA may take three types of action on standards: adopt, amend, or revoke.

Which of the following gives small businesses a voice in developing and revising OSHA standards?

The impetus for passing the OSH Act was that workplace accidents were causing an average of 14,000 deaths annually in the United States.