What is OSHA?

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) was created to assure the safety and health of America's workers by setting and enforcing standards, providing training and education in safety and health. OSHA was established in the late sixties, by the Nixon administration. They 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 …

…hour work week and almost seventeen die every day. This averages out to about 6000 people dieing and being injured each year. That is why OSHA officials have been steadily increasing inspections adding more officials and establishing new standards of safety to further serve the working community. As long as OSHA is in an ongoing operation to protect the working man from hazardous situations and products in the workplace we will all be a little safer.