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The Occupational Safety and Health Act : standards, provisions, rights / Christy Knight, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Public health in the 21st century series.
- Public Health in the 21st Century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
- United States.
- Industrial safety--Law and legislation--United States.
- Industrial safety.
- Industrial hygiene--Law and legislation--United States.
- Industrial hygiene.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (137 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, tables.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [New York] : Novinka, 2016.
- Summary:
- Through the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 ("OSH Act" or "act"), Congress sought a nationwide approach to regulating workplace accidents and injuries. The act authorizes the Secretary of Labor to create and enforce workplace safety standards. Additionally, the act contains a "General Duty Clause," also enforced by the Secretary of Labor, which generally requires employers to provide workplaces that are free of potentially harmful hazards. The act created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") and an Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, to whom the Secretary of Labor has delegated his enforcement rights and obligations under the act. The act also established the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission ("OSHRC"), an adjudicatory agency independent of the Department of Labor, and therefore OSHA, that is tasked with reviewing enforcement actions. OSHA enforces its standards and the General Duty Clause through inspections, citations, and penalties. Employers can seek review of OSHA enforcement actions first with OSHRC and then with U.S. Courts of Appeals. This book discusses, in depth, the standards, provisions and rights of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 10, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-63485-597-3
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