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Free OSHA 10-Hour Construction Study Companion practice questions (2026)

What is the format? These ten original multiple-choice questions introduce OSHA 10-Hour Construction Study Companion study topics. They are practice material, not actual exam items. Not authorized OSHA Outreach training. Does not issue an OSHA card. Cards come only from OSHA-authorized trainers after 10 instructional hours.

What does this prepare me for? Workplace hazard-recognition study, not authorized Outreach training or an OSHA card.

What should I study? Start with introduction to osha and worker rights, focus four: falls, focus four: electrocution. This bank uses 29 CFR 1926; 2024-10-01 Outreach procedures; study only, no OSHA card issued. Check the current exam objectives, adopted editions, and permitted references before planning your study.

How should I practice? Choose an answer before opening the explanation. Read the cited reference and revisit unfamiliar topics. These samples are general preparation, not jurisdiction-specific advice.

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1 / Introduction to OSHA and worker rights

Which injury-and-illness record does the required Introduction to OSHA module use as a sample learning resource?

  1. The employer's payroll tax return
  2. OSHA Form 300
  3. A crane's load chart
  4. A delivery driver's mileage log
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OSHA Form 300

Section IV.A.1.a(2) includes the OSHA Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses, Form 300, among the sample resources for the introduction.

OSHA Outreach Training Program — Construction Industry Procedures (effective October 1, 2024), Section IV.A.1.a(2)

2 / Introduction to OSHA and worker rights

A new employee will work with a covered harmful agent. What records information must the employer provide initially and at least annually?

  1. Only records selected by a coworker
  2. Record availability, the person responsible, and access rights
  3. Only the company's insurance premium
  4. The passwords to every employee's medical file
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Record availability, the person responsible, and access rights

The provision requires information about the existence and location of records, the responsible person, and the employee's access rights.

29 CFR 1910.1020(g)(1)

3 / Focus Four: Falls

A worker puts a wooden crate on a scaffold platform to gain extra height. What is the problem?

  1. Makeshift devices may not raise the working level on scaffolds
  2. The rule applies only to suspension scaffolds
  3. A crate is allowed if a coworker steadies it
  4. Only metal crates are prohibited
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Makeshift devices may not raise the working level on scaffolds

Boxes, barrels, and other makeshift devices cannot be used on scaffold platforms to raise employee working height.

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(14)

4 / Focus Four: Falls

A compliant 42-inch top rail is used beside workers on 18-inch stilts. What top-edge height preserves the rule's required increase?

  1. 48 inches above the original walking surface
  2. 42 inches above the original walking surface
  3. 60 inches above the original walking surface
  4. 24 inches above the original walking surface
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60 inches above the original walking surface

The top edge must be increased by the stilt height: 42 + 18 = 60 inches. Other guardrail criteria still apply.

29 CFR 1926.502(b)(1), Note

5 / Focus Four: Electrocution

A circuit trips under added load. May someone increase its protection rating beyond the wiring's load rating?

  1. No; circuit protection cannot be changed to exceed the wiring rating
  2. Yes, if only temporary tools are connected
  3. Yes, whenever the work is urgent
  4. Yes, if a GFCI is also present
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No; circuit protection cannot be changed to exceed the wiring rating

Increasing protection does not increase conductor capacity. The rule prohibits the stated change in existing installations.

29 CFR 1926.416(c)

6 / Focus Four: Struck-by

A lift needs a nonstandard hand signal because the standard method does not cover the attachment. What must occur first?

  1. All standard signals must be abandoned permanently
  2. The signal person, operator, and lift director if present must agree on it
  3. The operator guesses its meaning during the lift
  4. Only the signal person decides privately
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The signal person, operator, and lift director if present must agree on it

Permitted nonstandard signals require advance agreement among the specified participants, not improvisation during load movement.

29 CFR 1926.1419(c)(2)

7 / Focus Four: Caught-in or between

A crew plans to undermine pavement where collapse could injure workers. What is required?

  1. Only a traffic cone on the pavement
  2. A support system or another protective method
  3. No protection if the pavement looks intact
  4. Only faster excavation
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A support system or another protective method

Pavements and sidewalks cannot be undermined without protection against their possible collapse.

29 CFR 1926.651(i)(3)

8 / Personal protective equipment

An employee does not own required specialized PPE that is not within a payment exception. May the employer make purchase a condition of starting the task?

  1. Yes; a written agreement cancels the payment duty
  2. Yes; all new employees must buy their first set
  3. Yes; payroll deduction always satisfies the rule
  4. No; the employer cannot require the employee to provide or pay for it
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No; the employer cannot require the employee to provide or pay for it

Voluntary use of adequate employee-owned PPE is allowed, but it does not permit compulsory employee purchase outside the specified exceptions.

29 CFR 1926.95(d)(6)

9 / Health hazards and HazCom

What workplace information must a silica written exposure-control plan identify?

  1. Only the names of concrete suppliers
  2. Tasks involving exposure to respirable crystalline silica
  3. Only the cost of cutting tools
  4. Only the project's completion date
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Tasks involving exposure to respirable crystalline silica

A task description is a required plan element and links the exposure to the controls used for that work.

29 CFR 1926.1153(g)(1)(i)

10 / Electives: materials handling, tools, stairways, and confined spaces

A chisel's striking head has mushroomed. What condition is required for impact tools?

  1. Heads made wider by repeated striking
  2. Heads kept free of mushrooming
  3. Heads hidden beneath cloth during storage
  4. Heads coated with thick paint
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Heads kept free of mushrooming

Mushroomed striking heads can shed fragments. The tool must be brought into safe condition rather than used as found.

29 CFR 1926.301(c)

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