What Is OSHA?

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What is OSHA: The Occupational Safety and Health Act or OSHA was created in 1970 and brought into law by President Richard Nixon on December 29, 1970. OSHA officially formed April 28, 1971. OSHA's mission is to "assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance." OSHA set regulations for health and safety inside the work enviornment.
OSHA’s Basic Requirements: The Occupational Safety and Health Act assigns to OSHA two principal objectives: setting standards and conducting workplace inspections to make sure that employers are complying with the standards and providing a safe and healthful workplace. OSHA’s standards may require …show more content…

Coverage can be provided either by the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration or through an OSHA-approved state occupational safety and health program available in: Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, and …show more content…

Fun Facts about OSHA: The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and its small agency, given the size of its mission: with its state partners, OSHA has approximately 2,400 inspectors covering more than 8 million workplaces where 130 million workers are employed. In Fiscal Year 2012 (ending Sept. 30), OSHA and its state partners conducted more than 83,000 inspections of workplaces across the United States — just a fraction of the nation’s worksites. According to a report by American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations or the AFL–CIO, it would take OSHA 129 years to inspect all workplaces under its jurisdiction. During its more than 40 years of existence, OSHA has secured only 12 criminal

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