Safety & Risk Management Flashcards

Under OSHA Subpart L, fall protection is required for employees on a scaffold more than how many feet above a lower level?

Answer: 10 feet

Scaffold users require fall protection when working more than 10 feet above a lower level.

Under OSHA Subpart R (Steel Erection), the general fall protection trigger height for workers other than connectors and deckers in a CDZ is:

Answer: 15 feet

Steel erection workers must be protected from falls of more than 15 feet above a lower level.

How far back from the edge of an excavation must excavated spoil and equipment be kept at minimum?

Answer: 2 feet

OSHA requires materials and equipment to be kept at least 2 feet from the excavation edge or retained by a device.

In trenches 4 feet or deeper, a safe means of egress such as a ladder must be located within what lateral travel distance of workers?

Answer: 25 feet

A stairway, ladder, ramp, or other egress must require no more than 25 feet of lateral travel.

Absent a qualified-person design, anchorages for personal fall arrest systems must support at least how much per employee attached?

Answer: 5,000 pounds

OSHA requires fall arrest anchorages to support 5,000 pounds per employee or be designed with a safety factor of two.

A contractor buys insurance and requires bonds from subcontractors to deal with a project risk. Which risk response strategy is this?

Answer: Transfer

Insurance and bonds shift the financial consequences of a risk to a third party, which is risk transfer.

A waiver of subrogation in a construction contract prevents what?

Answer: An insurer from suing a contract party to recover a loss it paid

A waiver of subrogation bars the insurer from stepping into the insured's shoes to pursue other parties for paid losses.