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Understanding the OSHA Standards: Ensuring Workplace Safety and Health

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The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 aims to ensure employee health and safety while protecting the environment at job sites. Employers are held to specific standards and a general duty clause that mandates a safe work environment. Compliance and enforcement are critical, including recordkeeping, inspections, and investigations related to accidents and complaints. Additionally, state programs can be more stringent than federal guidelines. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) supports research and education to enhance workplace safety. Join the effort to reduce injuries and promote safer working conditions.

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Understanding the OSHA Standards: Ensuring Workplace Safety and Health

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  1. Unit 16 OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970

  2. Purpose • Insure health and safety of employees • Protect the environment within the employment site

  3. Duties of employers • Specific standards • General duty clause

  4. Standard Setting • Designed to protect employees • Based on scientific understanding • Scientific uncertainty

  5. Compliance & Enforcement • Recordkeeping • MSDS • Incidents • Inspections at reasonable times • Investigations • Accidents • Complaints

  6. Compliance & Enforcement • Trade secrets • Variations, Tolerances & exemptions • Imminent dangers • Civil penalties • Willful violations • Serious violations

  7. Compliance & Enforcement • Criminal violations • Willful violations resulting in death • Subsequent violations • Giving advance notice of inspections • Knowing false statement

  8. State programs • Subject to OSHA approval • May be more stringent than the federal

  9. Research & Assistance • National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH) • Grants, research & education • Collection & publication of statistics • Economic assistance to small business

  10. Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) • Exempted from routine inspections • Meet or exceed all standards • Fewer injuries/lost days

  11. Links • http://www.dol.state.nc.us/ • http://www.dol.gov/ • http://www.osha.gov/index.html • Toxic releases • http://www.epa.gov/tri/tri98/index.htm

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