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