All About OSHA

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All About OSHA

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration

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Williams-Stieger Act of 1970

• Since it was enacted, the following occurred
• Workplace fatalities cut by 62
• Occupational injuries and illnesses rate declined
  40
• U. S. employment has doubled and now includes
  nearly 115 million workers at 7 million sites

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OSHA Establishment

• to assure so far as possible every working man
  an woman in the nation safe and healthful working
  conditions and to preserve our human resources.
• The Occupational Safety and Health Act was signed
  by President Richard M. Nixon on December 29,
  1970 and that established the Occupational Safety
  and Health Administration with sole
  responsibility to provide worker safety and
  health protection.

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Why OSHA is Necessary

• Until 1970, no uniform or comprehensive
  provisions existed to protect against workplace
  safety and health hazards. At that time
• Job related accidents produced more than 14,000
  worker fatalities
• Nearly 3.5 million workers were disabled by work
  related accidents and injuries
• Ten times as many workdays were lost from
  job-related disabilities as from labor strikes
• The estimate new cases of occupational diseases
  totaled 300,000.

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Impact of OSHA

• Since 1970 and its creation OSHA its many
  partners have
• Cut the work-related rate by 62
• Reduced overall injury illness rates by 42
• Virtually eliminated Brown Lung Disease in the
  textile industry Reduced trenching and excavation
  fatalities by 35

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OSHAs Continuing Role

• Despite successes, hazards conditions still
  exist in US workplaces. Each year
• Almost 6,000 die from workplace injuries
• Possibly 50,000 die from illnesses from which
  workplace exposures are a contributing factor
• Nearly 6 million workers suffer non-fatal
  workplace injuries
• The cost of workplace injuries and illnesses
  total more than 170 billion

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What OSHA Does

• OSHA uses three basic strategies
• Strong, fair effective enforcement
• Outreach education and compliance assistance
• Partnerships other cooperative programs

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Based On The Strategies OSHA

• Encourages employers and employees to reduce
  workplace hazards
• Develops mandatory safety and health standards
  enforce them via
• Inspections
• Employer assistance
• Imposing citations, penalties or both
• Set up cooperative programs, partnerships and
  alliances

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Based On The Strategies OSHA(continued)

• Establishes responsibilities and rights for
  employers and employees
• Support the development of innovative ways of
  dealing with workplace hazards
• Maintains a reporting and record-keeping system
  to monitor injuries and illnesses
• Establish training programs for safety
  professionals
• Provide technical and compliance assistance and
  training and education to employers
• Partnership with state OSHA Programs
• Support the Consultation Service of OSHA

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Who OSHA Covers

• All private-sector employers and their employees
  in the 50 states and all territories and
  jurisdictions under federal authority. Those
  jurisdictions include the District of Columbia,
  Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Soma,
  Johnson Island, the Canal Zone, and he Outer
  Shelf Lands as defined in the Outer Continental
  Shelf Lands Act.

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OSHA Coverage Includes

• Employers and employees in varied fields that
  include but are not limited to
• Manufacturing Longshoring Law
• Shipbuilding Ship Breaking MD
• Ship Repair Agriculture Charity
• Disaster Relief Organized Labor
• Private Education and
• Religious Groups to the extent that they employ
  workers for secular purpose

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Who Is Not Covered By OSHA

• The self-employed
• Immediate members of farming families on farms
  that do not employ outside workers
• Employees whose working conditions are regulated
  by other federal agencies under other federal
  statutes e.g. mine workers, certain truckers
  transportation workers, atomic energy workers

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Who Is Not Covered By OSHA

• Public employees in state and local governments
  some states have their own occupational safety
  and health plans that cover these workers

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Responsibilities Rights Under the OSH Act

• Employer Responsibilities They must
• Meet the general duty clause
• Keep workers informed about OSHA safety
  health matters with which they are involved
• Comply, in a responsible manner, with standards,
  rules, regulations issued under the OSH Act
• Be familiar with mandatory OSHA standards

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Responsibilities Rights Under the OSH Act

• Employer Responsibilities They must
• Make copies of standards available to employees
  roe review upon request
• Evaluate workplace conditions
• Minimize or eliminate potential hazards
• Provide employees safe, properly maintained tools
  equipment, including appropriate PPE, and
  ensure that they use it

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Responsibilities Rights Under the OSH Act

• Employer Responsibilities They must
• Warn employees of potential hazards
• Establish or update operating procedures
  communicate them to employees
• Provide medical examinations when required
• Provide training required by OSHA standards
• Report within 8 hours any fatality or
  hospitalization of 3 or more employees

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Responsibilities Rights Under the OSH Act

• Employer Responsibilities They must
• Keep OSHA-required work-related injuries and
  illnesses
• Post a copy of OSHA 300A, Summary of Work-Related
  Injuries Illnesses, for the previous year from
  Feb. 1 to April 30
• Post, at prominent locations within the
  work-place, the OSHA Its the Law poster (OSHA
  3165) informing employees of their rights
  responsiblities