8-Question Workplace Safety Quiz

Eight questions, a 100-point scale, and a pass mark of 80: that is the entire shape of this workplace safety training quiz. It walks employees through OSHA fundamentals, PPE obligations, emergency procedures, and incident reporting in an estimated 10 to 15 minutes, then grades the attempt as a straight pass or fail. Each question is worth 12.5 points, so anyone who misses more than one lands below the threshold. That math keeps the certification meaningful without turning it into a trick test.

OSHA duties, fire response, and near misses: the question mix

The eight items split into four single-answer questions, two select-all-that-apply questions, and two true or false statements. Employees are asked who must pay for personal protective equipment, what SDS stands for, and which extinguisher class belongs on an electrical fire. One of them reads: "How soon after a workplace incident resulting in a fatality must the employer report it to OSHA?" The correct answer is within 8 hours, not 24.

The select-all items cover fire alarm response and ergonomic risk factors, while the true or false pair tests two ideas people often get wrong: that workers can refuse imminently dangerous work, and that near misses still need to be reported even when nobody is hurt.

Pass at 80, and every answer carries the regulation behind it

Scoring is pass or fail against the 80-point line. There is no feedback mid-quiz, but once a taker finishes, each question shows an explanation that cites the underlying rule, from 29 CFR 1910.132 on employer-paid PPE to the 8-hour fatality reporting window in 29 CFR 1904.39. That turns a failed attempt into a short lesson instead of a dead end.

On your side, the response dashboard shows how each question performed across the whole team, so a widely missed item flags a training gap rather than one careless employee. Results export to CSV whenever you need records for an audit.

Tune it to your building before anyone clicks start

Every question, option, point value, and the passing threshold itself can be edited, so you can swap the generic extinguisher question for one about the units mounted in your own facility. Branding is editable too: drop in your company logo and match the palette to your intranet.

Out of the box, takers can skip a question and return to it, step backward to change an answer, and watch a completion indicator fill as they go. There is no timer and the question order stays fixed, which suits a compliance setting better than a game-show format. Retakes are switched on, so someone who fails can review the explanations and sit the quiz again after coaching.

Publishing costs nothing: the template lives on Uplup's free tier. Share it as a direct link, print a QR code for the break room, embed the quiz on an intranet page, or, if that intranet happens to run WordPress, paste the Uplup plugin's shortcode into any post.