Occupational Health and Safety Act (OSHA)
Throughout many workplace accidents do happen on a daily basis. This has been an issue for many years and is still an ongoing issue today. Just imagine working in an environment where there is very little safety regulations or equipment. For example, imagine working as a butcher in a meat factory where it has little to no regulations regarding the safety of the employees.
In fact, this can be just as bad as driving without a seatbelt on. Due to this, in the 1970 “Richard Nixon” changes all of this by signing in to the law of Occupational Health and Safety Act also known as (OSHA). Their mission is set out to save lives, prevent injuries and protect the health of all employees. This is why I strongly agree that safety, health, and welfare is the three most important sections in the act.
Safety is one of the biggest concerns all employees seek for in a workplace to ensure that they are working in a safe and healthy environment. As stated in 23 (1) of the act of safety, all persons entering an area in an industrial establishment where they are likely to be exposed to the risk of head, eye, ear, hand or foot injury, injury from air contaminant or any other bodily injury, shall be provided with suitable protective clothing or devices.Occupational Health and Safety Act (OSHA)
