What Is OSHA?

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) was created to assure the safety and health of America's workers by setting and enforcing standards, providing training and education in safety and health. OSHA was established in the late sixties, by the Nixon administration. They feared for the workingman, especially in the booming of the modern American industrialism. Nixon was concerned that the workingman would be pushed aside and forgot about as machines took over, but he made a plan to prevent all that from happening with the Occupational Safety and Health Act. …