WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF OSHA? OSHA directs national compliance initiatives in occupational safety and health. Through a variety of practices including Inspections and Training, OSHA helps business protect their workers and reduce the number of workplace deaths, injuries and illnesses. When employees stay safe and healthy, companies can reduce workers’ compensation insurance costs and medical expenses, decreased payout for return-to-work programs, reduce faulty products, and lower costs for job accommodations for injured workers. Indirectly, additional benefits such as increased productivity, lower training costs due to fewer replacement workers and decreased costs for overtime have also been attributed to OSHA’s research and guidance. Since 1970, workplace deaths have been reduced by more than 60 percent and occupational injuries and illnesses have gone down 40 percent. In addition OSHA has conducted more than 38,000 inspections & issued over 85,000 citations for safety violationsas well as assisted businesses with it’s Consultation Program.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 15:00:00 +0000
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