| "Occupational Safety & Health Administration | | | | enforcing standards; providing training, |
| (OSHA)" is an agency of the U.S. Department | | | | outreach, and education; establishing |
| of Labor. The agency is result of "The | | | | partnerships; and encouraging continual |
| Occupational Safety and Health Act" signed by | | | | improvement in workplace safety and health. |
| President Richard M. Nixon on Dec. 29, 1970. | | | | |
| The Agency aims to ensure employee safety and | | | | Nearly every working man and woman in the |
| health in the United States by working with | | | | nation comes under OSHA's jurisdiction (with |
| employers and employees to create better | | | | some exceptions such as miners, |
| working environments. Since its inception, | | | | transportation workers, many public |
| OSHA has helped to cut workplace fatalities | | | | employees, and the self-employed). Other |
| by more than 60 percent and occupational | | | | users and recipients of OSHA services |
| injury and illness rates by 40 percent. | | | | include: occupational safety and health |
| | | | professionals, the academic community, |
| OSHA's mission is to assure the safety and | | | | lawyers, journalists, and personnel of other |
| health of America's workers by setting and | | | | government entities. |