Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Many occupational accidents either due to lack of proper training or due to ignorance occur and cost people either their firms, lives and even there ability to work. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), that came in to play in 2007 repeal the employees act in that employers should have safe operations that do not  cause any health hazard to the employee and if it does to cease operations of the company until necessary measures are taken. The employee on the other hand has a duty to ensure he keeps his working environment clean and free from occupation hazards. In addition he should prepare a report at the end of year analyzing his safety and heath that is submitted to the relevant advisor annually. OSHA law passed in 1971 to ensure every employee during the course of work is safe and the working conditions are fulfilling. OSHA also safeguards human resources from destruction via pollution or mere mishandling by users. With this aim OSHA was established by the law department to control the safety and safeguard the health of employees during their work. It was introduced to help employees and their employers identify and reduce working hazards, introduce and safeguard existing laws that protect them from being exposed to these dangers. It has also created a background for research on the dangers affecting occupational safety and ways of cubing these menaces. Further it safeguards the rights of employees to ensure safety during work and also monitors by record keeping of such cases of injuries, deaths or illnesses at work place and due to work related causes. OSHA sets standards on how to deal with violations of human safety and also takes the initiative to train both the employers and employee on occupational hazards and the need to discourage them. Issues such as first aid if an injury or accident occurs have been catered for by training from OSHA. There standards help to protect human life and also increase quality of work and working conditions. Occupational hazards in stone cutting plants have been known to cause injuries, diseases and also loss of lives thus must be avoided. Demographics by the European Agency for Safety and Health (2001) show that 5500 people in the European Union lose their lives and many more die due to occupation accidents thus the need to address the problem. OSHA’S office of Washington DC claimed that by imposing the new rules it reduced the number of deaths by excavation to 60 from 90 thus was making a positive impact in society in protecting human life. Using these regulations occupation safety has been attained in many plants but much more needs to be done to instill the set regulations.