OSHA 10 Hour: General Workplace

About OSHA: OSHA’s mission, the OSH Act of 1970, where standards appear in the Code of Federal Regulations, inspections, citations, penalties, and available workplace safety resources.

Rights and responsibilities: Employer and employee responsibilities, recognized hazards, worker rights, and whistleblower protections.

Hazard Communication Standard: Hazardous substances, physical and health hazards, routes of exposure, the hierarchy of controls, chemical labels, and the GHS pictogram system.

Safety Data Sheets: The purpose and required sections of SDSs, employer and employee responsibilities, HCS training requirements, and multi-employer worksite considerations.

Emergency Action Plans: Reporting procedures, evacuation routes, emergency wardens, assembly areas, accountability, and coordination with emergency services.

Fire Prevention Plans: Fire hazards, written-plan requirements, prevention practices, extinguishing systems, the PASS method, and relevant workforce training.

General PPE requirements: Employer responsibilities, PPE selection, limitations, training, and protection for the eyes, face, respiratory system, and hearing.

Types of PPE: Head, hand, foot, electrical, and hearing protection, including the criteria for selecting suitable equipment for workplace hazards.

Surface hazards: Housekeeping, ladders, mobile stands, stairs, platforms, dockboards, rope-descent systems, and training requirements for fall risks.

Fall protection: Guardrails, openings, ramps, pits, fixed ladders, low-slope roofs, toeboards, and other measures used to reduce fall risks.

Electrical hazards: Common workplace electrical risks, circuits, shock hazards, high voltage, static electricity, overload conditions, and electrical safety programs.

Protective measures: Insulation, guarding, grounding, circuit protection, energized parts, overhead power lines, and safe work practices.

Identifying risk factors: Worker, task, and environmental factors that can contribute to work-related musculoskeletal disorders.

Controlling ergonomic risks: Engineering controls, administrative controls, appropriate PPE, safer lifting practices, and prioritizing improvements.

Noise and hearing loss: How sound is measured, effects of excessive noise exposure, possible symptoms of hearing loss, and methods of evaluating workplace noise.

Protective measures: The hierarchy of controls, hearing protective devices, attenuation, and the components of a workplace hearing conservation program.

Exposure assessment and controls: Industrial hygiene, air quality, common air contaminants, toxicity, routes of chemical exposure, and the hierarchy of controls.

Biological and physical hazards: Biological agents, bloodborne pathogens, radiation, noise, temperature, humidity, vibration, and ergonomic risks.

Gathering the facts: OSHA reporting requirements, accident-scene documentation, witness interviews, event sequences, and the components of an effective investigation process.

Analyzing and improving: Surface and root causes, corrective actions, system improvements, the hierarchy of controls, and effective accident-report recommendations.