Which scenario would be a violation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)?

Which scenario would be a violation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)?

• A. An employee becoming injured while commuting to work.
• B. An employee injured because an employer did not provide equipment in good working order.
• C. An employer requiring employees to work with toxic chemicals.
• D. An employer failing to accompany an OSHA compliance officer on an inspection.

Answer: (B)

OSHA requires employers to provide and maintain a safe workplace, which includes keeping equipment in good working order to prevent hazards. When an employee is injured specifically because the employer did not provide equipment that functions safely, it shows a failure to control recognized hazards and violates those safety duties. Injury from commuting to work falls outside OSHA’s usual workplace safety scope, since OSHA concentrates on conditions inside the job site, not off-site travel. Requiring work with toxic chemicals isn’t automatically a violation; it depends on whether proper hazard communication, exposure controls, and protective measures are in place. Without those safeguards, it could be a violation, but the statement alone doesn’t prove it. An OSHA compliance officer can conduct an inspection with or without the employer’s accompaniment, so failing to accompany the officer is not itself a violation.

OSHA requires employers to provide and maintain a safe workplace, which includes keeping equipment in good working order to prevent hazards. When an employee is injured specifically because the employer did not provide equipment that functions safely, it shows a failure to control recognized hazards and violates those safety duties.

Injury from commuting to work falls outside OSHA’s usual workplace safety scope, since OSHA concentrates on conditions inside the job site, not off-site travel.

Requiring work with toxic chemicals isn’t automatically a violation; it depends on whether proper hazard communication, exposure controls, and protective measures are in place. Without those safeguards, it could be a violation, but the statement alone doesn’t prove it.

An OSHA compliance officer can conduct an inspection with or without the employer’s accompaniment, so failing to accompany the officer is not itself a violation.