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Occupational Safety (OSHA)

Workplace safety is of concern to all employers. The federal government enforces workplace safety laws through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA provides the following services:

• Encourage employers and employees to reduce work hazards while improving existing safety and health programs.
• Assist in research of occupational safety and health.
• Define "separate but dependent responsibilities and rights" for workers and employers.
• Enforce proper reporting of recording job-related injuries or illness.
• Give training programs to provide more and more occupational safety-health personnel.
• Monitor state occupational safety and health programs.

Employers with eleven or more employees must maintain records of all occupational injuries and illnesses.

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