Chapter $12$: Assignment: Promoting Safety and Health

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Identify whether each of the following statements is or is not a provision of Occupational Safety and Health Act $($OSHA$).$

Statement

Provision

Not a

Statement

Provision

Employers can be cited and fined for not complying with OSHA workplace standards.

OSHA is authorized to enter, after a one$-$month delay, any factory, plant, establishment, construction site or other areas, workplace, or environment where work is performed by an employee of an employer to inspect or investigate.

OSHA is authorized to inspect and investigate during work hours at any place of employment and all pertinent conditions and to question privately any employer, owner, operator, agent, or employee.

An OSHA inspector finds that a construction company that has been given a stop work order told workers to continue digging trenches for a sewer line. As a result, a construction worker is partially buried when a trench collapses. Fortunately, coworkers take quick action, saving the employee from what could have been a horrible death. The inspector is likely to issu! citation.