Occupational Safety

OSHA Have you ever feared for your safety at work, chances are you haven't, but this wasn't the case up until the late sixties and the Nixon administration? The Nixon administration feared for the workingman especially in the booming of the modern American industrialism. Nixon was concerned that the workingman would be pushed aside and forgot about as machines took over, but he planned to prevent all that from happening with the Occupational Safety and …

…are not taken care of. This act has doe away with the times of faceless workers. It has become the best friend of the employee and even the employer if they work together. As put by President Richard M. Nixon, "This Administration can do much to improve the American worker. Employers and employees alike must be committed to the prevention of accident and disease and alert to every opportunity for promoting that end" (Nixon 75A).