Tennessee Contractor License Exam — All Questions
2 questions
Construction workplace safety in Tennessee is enforced by which agency?
- a.TOSHA (Tennessee OSHA), an OSHA-approved state plan within the Department of Labor and Workforce Development✓
- b.The Board for Licensing Contractors
- c.The Internal Revenue Service
- d.There is no workplace-safety enforcement in Tennessee
Tennessee operates its own OSHA-approved state plan, TOSHA, within the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. It enforces safety standards at least as effective as federal OSHA, so Tennessee contractors answer to TOSHA on the jobsite.T.C.A. Title 50, Ch. 3 (TOSHA state plan)
A work-related fatality on a Tennessee jobsite must be reported to the OSHA authority within how many hours?
- a.24 hours
- b.48 hours
- c.8 hours✓
- d.72 hours
A work-related fatality must be reported within 8 hours of the employer learning of it. An in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye carries a 24-hour clock. The 8-hour fatality deadline is the one the exam most often tests.29 CFR 1904.39 (severe-injury reporting), applied through TOSHA