For OSHA construction safety, what distinguishes a competent person on site?
Correct Answer
D) A person capable of identifying hazards and authorized to take prompt corrective measures
A competent person can identify existing and predictable hazards and has authority to take prompt corrective measures. Other choices confuse the role with seniority, ownership, or unrelated credentials.
Why This Is the Correct Answer
A competent person can identify existing and predictable hazards and has authority to take prompt corrective measures. Other choices confuse the role with seniority, ownership, or unrelated credentials.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Option A: The newest worker assigned to a task, leaving competent person unverified
Choice A gives The newest worker assigned to a task. Its specific error: it leaves out the controlling Competent person result: A person capable of identifying hazards and authorized to take prompt corrective measures.
Option B: Any person holding a driver's license
Choice B (Any person holding a driver's license) is rejected because the choice would not get the project to A person capable of identifying hazards and authorized to take prompt corrective measures, which is the Competent person result verified by the source.
Option C: Base the competent person response on the project owner only
In general project requirements, Only the project owner is the wrong selection for Competent person: the option delays or omits the controlling step.
Memory Technique
Attach competent person to a pay line: remember the function, then the wording A person capable of identifying hazards and authorized to take prompt corrective measures.
Reference Hint
Open 29 CFR 1926 OSHA Construction Standards; use 29 CFR 1926.32(f) to confirm that A competent person can identify existing and predictable hazards and has authority to take prompt corrective measures.
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