OSHA 10 Act : "To ensure a safe and healthful working condition for workmen and women; by enforcement of the standards developed, by helping and encouraging the States in their activities to assure safe and healthful work conditions; by making available research, information, education, and training in the field of occupational safety training and health."
How/Why OSHA training and standards required for safe workplace:
Congress comes to know that personal injuries and accidents occurring at work situations create a burden upon, and are a hindrance to, interstate and intrastate commerce causing lost production, wage loss, medical expenses, and disability compensation payments.
It is the Congress purpose and policy to regulate Commerce throughout the Nation and with foreign countries, and to provide general welfare to ensure that every working men and women is safe from health hazards arising at occupational environment. This policy is implemented by following the under mentioned efforts:
(1) by encouraging employers and employees in their efforts to reduce the number of occupational safety and health hazards at their places of employment,
(2) by employing that employers and employees have separate responsibilities and rights to achieving safe and healthful working conditions;
(3) by authorizing the Secretary of Labor to set forth occupational safety and health standards which apply to businesses affecting interstate commerce.
(5) by providing research in the field of occupational safety and health
(6) by searching latent diseases, establishing causal connections between diseases and work in environmental conditions
(7) by providing medical criteria which will assure that no employee will suffer ill health, low functional capacity, or life expectancy as a result of his work experience;
(8) by providing for OSHA training programs that increase the competence of personnel
(11) by encouraging the States to assume the complete responsibility for the enforcement of their occupational safety training and health laws
(12) by providing appropriate reporting procedures which report occupational safety and health procedures and will help achieve the objectives of this Act and accurately describe the nature of the occupational safety and health problem;
(13) by encouraging joint labor-management efforts to reduce injuries and disease arising out of employment.
How/Why OSHA training and standards required for safe workplace:
Congress comes to know that personal injuries and accidents occurring at work situations create a burden upon, and are a hindrance to, interstate and intrastate commerce causing lost production, wage loss, medical expenses, and disability compensation payments.
It is the Congress purpose and policy to regulate Commerce throughout the Nation and with foreign countries, and to provide general welfare to ensure that every working men and women is safe from health hazards arising at occupational environment. This policy is implemented by following the under mentioned efforts:
(1) by encouraging employers and employees in their efforts to reduce the number of occupational safety and health hazards at their places of employment,
(2) by employing that employers and employees have separate responsibilities and rights to achieving safe and healthful working conditions;
(3) by authorizing the Secretary of Labor to set forth occupational safety and health standards which apply to businesses affecting interstate commerce.
(5) by providing research in the field of occupational safety and health
(6) by searching latent diseases, establishing causal connections between diseases and work in environmental conditions
(7) by providing medical criteria which will assure that no employee will suffer ill health, low functional capacity, or life expectancy as a result of his work experience;
(8) by providing for OSHA training programs that increase the competence of personnel
(11) by encouraging the States to assume the complete responsibility for the enforcement of their occupational safety training and health laws
(12) by providing appropriate reporting procedures which report occupational safety and health procedures and will help achieve the objectives of this Act and accurately describe the nature of the occupational safety and health problem;
(13) by encouraging joint labor-management efforts to reduce injuries and disease arising out of employment.
