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