Do you have fire extinguishers available for employee use?

Do your workers know how to safely evacuate in a fire or other emergency?

Could your workforce ever face the possibility of fire, chemical release, natural disaster, violent incident or other workplace emergency?

Do workers render first aid when needed and/or is it required within their job duties?

Are workers expected to perform CPR when needed and/or is it required within their job duties? (your workplace might also have AED access)

Do you have employees who would benefit from learning violence prevention strategies?

Do you have a designated team (fire brigade) to respond to fires in your facility?

Do you have employees who wear any or all of the following equipment at any point during their work-year? Safety glasses, goggles, face shields, hard hats, foot protection, gloves, body harness, or any other protective gear?

Do any of your employees wear a respirator (filtering or air-supplied) at any point during a workday or throughout a year?

Tip: a respirator is any mask over the nose and mouth with two-straps behind the head. Even a dust mask if it has two straps. Face masks and face coverings, even with ear loops, don't apply.

Do your employees work with hazardous substances such as chemicals, chemical by-products, medications or vaccines? (including cleaning supplies)

Do any of your employees work with, in or near decaying organic matter such sludge, liquid manure, or in sewers, confined spaces, or waste water treatment? (potential hydrogen sulfide contact)

Do you have employees who add chlorine in liquid or powder form to any of your processes at any point during a year?

To your knowledge, does your work environment contain any asbestos whether in good condition (non-friable) or not (friable)?

Do you have employees who do any of the following types of work that could expose them to lead? Painting, sand-blasting, soldering, metal cutting, demolition, welding, furniture refinishing, battery repair, bridge or water tower painting

Do you have employees who work with formaldehyde or formalin in any manner?

Do you have employees in coal-tar production or who work in a coking plant where they are exposed to coke oven emissions?

Do employees come into contact with any of the following 13 Carcinogenic substances:

1. 4-Nitrobiphenyl
2. Alpha-Naphthylamine
3. Methyl Chloromethyl Ether
4. 3,3’-Dichlorobenzidine (and its salts)
5. Bis-Chloromethyl Ether
6. Beta-Naphthylamine
7. Benzidine
8. 4-Aminodiphenyl
9. Ethyleneimine
10. Beta-Propiolactone
11. 2-Acetylaminofluorene
12. 4-Dimethylaminoazobenzene
13. N-Nitrosodimethylamine

Do you have any employees who are NOT electricians performing any minor electrical work including changing out parts on machines, locking-out equipment or operating an electrical cabinet or disconnect?

Do you have employees qualified to do electrical work with 600 volts or less? (NFPA 70E regulation)

Do you have employees who work from heights or are exposed to falls? (for example, on scaffolds, ladders, from heights or other uneven surfaces)

Do you have employees who work from stairways and/or ladders? (includes mobile stairs)

Do any of your employees work from an elevated work platform such as an aerial lift, scissor lift, manlift, JLG, or Lull lift?

Do you have energized (electric, pneumatic, hydraulic, gravity, fuel, etc.) equipment which needs to be serviced, repaired, re-tooled, or cleaned and do your employees perform those duties? (lockout tagout)

Do any of your employees ever enter tanks, pits, vats, bins, boilers, vessels, excavations, sewers or other spaces not intended for continuous human occupancy? (confined space)

Tip: “Enter” means placing any or all body parts into the space.

Are there signs, labels or tags in your workplace that provide instructions or safety warnings to employees?

Do you have any employees who work in extreme cold temperatures, indoors or outdoors?

Do you have any employees who work in extreme heat temperatures, indoors or outdoors?

Do your company's facilities or buildings contain possible indoor airborne contaminants? (ex. mold, dust, chemicals, viruses)

Are your employees exposed to radiation (both ionizing and nonionizing)?

Examples include: x-ray, infrared, radio frequency, ultraviolet.

Do you have employees who work over or near water?

Do you have employees who operate forklifts daily or sporadically? (Powered Industrial Trucks includes pallet jacks, pickers, reach trucks, or other material handling equipment)

Do you have employees who drive non-commercial vehicles as part of their work?

Do you have commercial motor vehicle drivers?

Do you have workers who operate overhead or gantry cranes or assist in their operation as a spotter or member of a lifting crew?

Do your workers rig loads moved by mobile, overhead, or gantry cranes? (material handling-slings)

Do you have employees who are responsible for DOT placards and labels on shipping containers, vehicles, and packages?

Do you have employees who service tires and/or wheels?

Do any of your employees wear ear plugs or ear muffs? Or are they exposed to 85 decibels or greater of noise for 8 hours at a time or higher noise levels but for shorter durations?

Tip: 85 decibels usually means you have to raise your voice to be heard when standing arms-distance from someone in order to be heard.

Do any of your employees have exposure to human blood, body fluids or other potentially infectious human materials as part of their job duties?

Do your employees work in areas where they have close contact with other workers or exposure to COVID-19?

Do you have employees who use hand tools or powered hand tools (ex. hammers, saws, drills)?

Do you have machines with potential hazards such as those created by point of operation, ingoing nip points, rotating parts, flying chips and sparks?

Do you have workers who are machine operators or metal fabricators and/or use a punch press or mechanical power press?

Do have employees who operate forging machines in the manufacture of metal parts?

Do you have employees who operate commercial laundry equipment?

Do you have employees who do any type of welding, cutting or brazing, either daily or sporadically?

Do you have employees who install, remove, operate or maintain compressed gas cylinders, canisters or operate pressurized valves?

Do any of your employees work with, move, store, or dispose of flammable liquids?

Do you have employees who work at hazardous waste clean-up sites?

Does your company have 10,000 pounds or more of flammable gas or liquid?

Do you have any employees who lift and handle products, people, animals, or industrial laundry?

Do you have workers in an office environment who sit or stand at work stations for long periods of time?

Do you have employees who perform repetitive tasks such as line, assembly, or packaging work? Tip: Common in factories, health care, and food processing.

Would any of your employees benefit from understanding how to model and reinforce safe work practices to other employees?

Do you have employees who are tasked with performing safety audits or inspections?

Hexavalent Chromium Hazards (often found in carbon and stainless steel welding, foundries and steel mills, electroplating and wet cement work)

Ammonia (often found in fertilizers, agriculture, commercial refrigeration)

Respirable crystalline silica (often found cutting, grinding, etc. concrete, brick, block, stone, mortar)

Fumigants, pesticides, insecticides, and hazardous preservatives

Cadmium (often found in batteries, solar cells, electroplating, soldering industries)

Vinyl chloride (often found in PVC processing)

Benzene (often found in steel and rubber manufacturing, printing, gas stations)

Beryllium (often found in foundries, abrasive blasters, metal fabricators)

Inorganic arsenic (often found in mining, e-waste recycling, smelting, glass manufacturing, agriculture)

Cotton dust (often found in textile industries, cotton and flax mills)

Do you have employees who work from heights or are exposed to falls?

Do you have employees who work from stairways and/or use ladders of any type to perform their work duties?

Do you have workers who assemble, dismantle, inspect or perform work on a scaffold?

Do you have employees who wear any or all of the following equipment at any point during their work-year? Safety glasses, goggles, face shields, hard hats, foot protection, gloves, body harness, or any other protective gear/PPE?

Do you have workers who engage in excavating and trenching activities?

Do you have employees who do any type of welding, cutting or brazing, either daily or sporadically?

Does your organization use cranes and derricks for lifting and moving products and materials?

Do you have employees who are on the ground, in communication with crane operators while picking and landing loads? (crane and hoist signaling)

Do you your workers operate, in, or near traffic that requires traffic control (including a flagger)?

Do you have employees who work with cast-in-place concrete, pre-cast concrete, lift-slab operations, and/or masonry construction?

Do you have employees engaged in structural steel work (examples include: erecting, hoisting, bracing, rigging, connecting).

Do you have employees who are exposed to gases, vapors, fumes, dusts or mists as a byproduct of their work (examples include: welding, cutting, grinding, working with chemicals)?

Do any of your employees work with, move, store, or dispose of flammable liquids, gases, or toxic materials?

Do your employees use explosives and blasting agents in their work duties?

Do you have employees engaged in the construction of underground tunnels, shafts, chambers or passageways, and/or working in compressed air environments?

Do you have a lab or labs in your facilities? Or personnel who work in a laboratory settings (ex. research and development department)

Do you have employees who work in labs with toxic and hazardous substances as defined by OSHA in CFR 1910 Subpart Z (Toxic and Hazardous Substances)?

Do you have employees who work at telecommunications centers or field installations and engage in installation, maintenance or operations work? (note: a call center is not a telecommunications center)

Do you employ qualified electrical workers (QEW) who operate and maintain electric power generation, control, transformation, transmission, and distribution lines and equipment?

Do your employees work in a grain elevator or other grain handling facility?

Do you have employees who operate agricultural or industrial tractors?

Do you have machines with potential hazards such as those created by point of operation, ingoing nip points, power take-off shafts, rotating parts, flying chips and sparks? (farm field equipment, farmstead equipment, and cotton gins)

Are your employees engaged in logging, timber harvesting, or harvesting of other forest products?

Do you have a designated dive team? (applies to commercial diving operations)

Do you have energized (electric, pneumatic, hydraulic, gravity, fuel, etc.) equipment which needs to be serviced, repaired, re-tooled, or cleaned and do your employees perform those duties in a Maritime setting? (lockout tagout)

Do your employees wear body belts as a positioning device?

Do you have employees who use air receivers/air compressor tank or other unfired pressure vessels?