OSHA Prelim Quiz 1

What does DOLE stands for?

The Occupational Safety and Health Standards was formulated in what year?

Adopted through the tested democratic machinery of tripartism, the 1978 Standards is considered as a _____ in Philippine labor and social legislation.

Joint efforts exerted by the Bureau of Working Conditions, the ILO Manila Office and the tripartite sectors bore fruit in August 1989 when the revisions were finally approved by the Secretary of Labor and Employment pursuant to his authority under ___________ ______ of the Labor Code of the Philippines.

By virtue of the powers vested in the Department of Labor and Employment under Article 162 of the Labor Code of the Philippines, this Occupational Safety and Health Standards is hereby promulgated for the guidance and compliance of all concerned. This body of standards rules and regulations shall hereafter be referred to as "________"

"______" includes any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer, in relation to an employee, and shall include governmentowned or controlled corporations and institutions, as well as non-profit private institutions or organizations.

"______" shall mean any person hired, permitted or suffered to work by an employer.

€�______" shall mean any workplace, permanent or temporary, including any building or collection of buildings, shed, structure, yard or any other place, where permanently or temporarily one or more persons are employed in any manufacturing of goods or products processing and any other activity similar and incidental thereto.

€�_______" shall include forestry and logging operations, farming in all its branches, and among other things, includes cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing and harvesting of any agricultural and horticultural commodities, the raising of livestock and poultry, and any practice performed by a farmer on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, but does not include the manufacturing or processing of sugar, coconut, abaca , tobacco, pineapple or other farm products.

"________” shall include premises where work is performed on shore or on board ships in which ships or vessels are constructed, repaired, refitted, finished or broken up and housed.

€� “______” shall connote a sound state of the body and mind of the worker, which enables him to perform his job normally, in a state of well-being.

€�_________ shall refer to the physical or environmental conditions of work or employment, which substantially comply with the provisions of this Standards.

€�_________” shall mean an unplanned or unexpected occurrence that may or may not result in personal injury, property damage, work stoppage or interference or any combination thereof, which arises out of and in the course of employment.

€�_________” shall mean any injury or occupational illness suffered by a person, which arises out of or in the course of his employment.

€�_________” shall mean any illness caused by environmental factors, the exposure to which is characterized or peculiar to a particular process, trade or occupation and to which an employee or worker is not ordinarily subjected to or exposed outside of or away from such employment.

€�_________” are those which do not require technical or testing devices to detect.

€�_________” means the office, premises or work site, where the workers are habitually employed and shall include the office or place where the workers, who have no fixed or definite work site, regularly report for assignment in the course of their employment.

€�_________” shall mean acceptable to the Secretary in writing after proper examination showing compliance with prescribed Standards.

€�_________” shall mean the Labor Code P.D. 442 as amended.

€�_________” shall mean the Department of Labor and Employment.

€�_________” shall mean the Secretary of Labor and Employment

€�_________” shall mean the Bureau of Working Conditions.

€�_________” shall mean the Director of the Bureau of Working Conditions.

€�_________” shall mean the Occupational Safety and Health Standards.

€�_________” shall mean the industrial safety engineer, the labor regulation officer, or any duly authorized representatives of the Secretary to enforce this Standards.

€�_________” shall mean and include chartered cities, municipalities, employees or officials of other government agencies empowered by the Secretary of Labor and Employment to enforce the provisions of this Standards.

Who enforces the provisions of the standards?

Every employer shall give to the __________ or his ______ __________ representative access to its premises and records for the purpose of determining compliance with the provisions of this Standards.

Every establishment or place of employment shall be inspected at least _______ a year to determine compliance with the provisions of this Standards.

The enforcement officer shall determine reasonable periods of compliance with recommendations depending on the _________ needing corrections or the period needed to come into compliance with the order.

The activities of a lessee regarding safety of mining installations, surface or underground, within the mining claim or lease, including mine safety, mineral conservation and problem of pollution in establishments or workplaces falling under “___________” as classified by the National Economic and Development Authority are not covered by this Standards.

The Department of Labor and Employment shall be solely responsible for the administration and enforcement of this Standards in all places of employment except as provided in ________ of this Standards.

________ means an instrument for measuring wind velocity.

__________ means a suspension method where the upper point of suspension is inboard from the attachments on the suspended unit, thus causing the suspended unit to bear against the face of the building.

_____________ means a rotating cylindrical member designed to ride on the face of the building wall to prevent the platform from abrading the face of the building and to assist in stabilizing the platform.

_____________ means operations such as window cleaning, caulking, metal polishing, reglazing, and general maintenance on building surfaces.

________ means a conductor, or group of conductors, enclosed in a weatherproof sheath, that may be used to supply electrical power.

__________ means a wheeled vehicle used for the horizontal movement and support of other equipment.

___________ means a written, signed and dated statement confirming the performance of a requirement of this section.

_____________ means a cable having both steel structural members capable of supporting the platform, and copper or other electrical conductors insulated from each other and the structural members by nonconductive barriers.

_____________ means a person who is capable of identifying hazardous or dangerous conditions in powered platform installations and of training employees to identify such conditions.

_____________ means the need for constant manual actuation for a control to function.

"___________" means the time a test specimen continues to flame after the flame source has been removed.