ASP Domain 8: Training, Education, and Communication

On a crane site, a rigger who has completed the required training is later seen standing between the counterweight and a fixed structure and ignoring the swing radius. The site supervisor wants to know what the crane standard requires of the employer in this situation.

1. A.The employer must provide refresher training in relevant topics when the employee's conduct indicates that retraining is necessary
2. B.Refresher training can wait until the next annual review cycle, regardless of the employee's conduct
3. C.The employer must only issue a written warning, because training is a one-time requirement
4. D.The employer must require the employee to pay for retraining, since the lapse was the employee's fault

A contractor must designate a competent person, as the term is defined in 29 CFR 1926.32, to oversee daily site conditions. Four people are under consideration. Which one meets the definition?

1. A.A project manager with full authority to order repairs who has no ability to identify hazardous or dangerous working conditions
2. B.An outside consultant who can recognize every hazard on the site but may only write recommendations to the owner and cannot direct any corrective action
3. C.A foreman who can recognize existing and predictable hazards on the site and has been given authority by the employer to stop work and order immediate repairs
4. D.A laborer whom the employer assigned to stand at the excavation edge and signal the equipment operator, a duty that does not involve hazard recognition

A masonry contractor assigns a laborer to help dismantle and move a supported scaffold on a job site. Before the work starts, the site superintendent wants to document the laborer's training. Which arrangement meets the training requirement for this laborer?

1. A.An OSHA compliance officer trains the laborer on scaffold hazards during the next site visit
2. B.The laborer reads the scaffold manufacturer's brochure and signs that it was understood
3. C.A coworker with the most seniority on the crew shows the laborer how the scaffold goes together while they work
4. D.A competent person trains the laborer to recognize the hazards of the work, including the correct procedures for disassembling and moving this type of scaffold