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What is OSHA?
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
Responsible for worker safety and
health protection
OSHA began because, until 1970, there were
no national laws for safety and health
hazards.
On average, 15 workers die every day from
job injuries
Over 4 million non-fatal workplace injuries
and illnesses were reported

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Has OSHA Made a Difference?
Helped cut the work-related fatality rate in half
Worked with employers and employees to reduce workplace
injuries and illnesses by 40%
Virtually eliminated brown lung disease in the textile industry, and
Reduced trenching and excavation fatalities by 35%
YES!
Since 1970 OSHA has:
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What does OSHA do?
Encourages employers and employees to reduce
workplace hazards and implement new or
improve existing safety and health programs
Develops and enforces mandatory job safety and
health standards
Maintains a reporting and recordkeeping system
to monitor job-related injuries and illnesses
Provides assistance, training and other support
programs to help employers and workers
In Norway, the main required tasks of an Occupational Health
and Safety Practitioner include:
Systematic evaluations of the working environment
Endorsing preventative measures which eliminate reasons for
illnesses in the work place
Giving information in the subject of employees health
Giving information on occupational hygiene, ergonomics and
also environmental and safety risks in the work place
In the Netherlands, required tasks for health and safety staff
are only summarily defined, and include:
Voluntary medical examinations.
A consulting room on the work environment for the
workers.
Health check assessments (if needed for the job concerned).

The main influence on the Dutch law on the job of the
safety professional is through the requirement on each
employer to use the services of a certified working conditions
service to advise them on health and safety.
A certified service must employ sufficient numbers of four
types of certified experts to cover the risks in the
organizations which use the service:
A safety professional
An occupational hygienist
An occupational physician
A work and organization specialist.

The main tasks undertaken by the OHS practitioner in the USA
include:
Develop processes, procedures, criteria, requirements, and methods to
attain the best possible management of the hazards and exposures that
can cause injury to people, and damage property, or the environment;
Apply good business practices and economic principles for efficient
use of resources to add to the importance of the safety processes;
Promote other members of the company to contribute by exchanging
ideas and other different approaches to make sure that every one in the
corporation possess OHS knowledge and have functional roles in the
development and execution of safety procedures.

Assess services, outcomes, methods, equipment,
workstations, and procedures by using qualitative and
quantitative methods to recognize the hazards and
measure the related risks.
Examine all possibilities, effectiveness, reliability, and
expenditure to attain the best results for the company
concerned.

Knowledge required by the OHS professional in USA include:
Constitutional and case law controlling safety, health, and the
environment
Operational procedures to plan/develop safe work practices
Safety, health and environmental sciences
Design of hazard control systems (i.e. fall protection,
scaffoldings)
Design of recordkeeping systems that take collection into
account, as well as storage, interpretation, and dissemination
Mathematics and statistics
Processes and systems for attaining safety through design

Some skills required by the OHS professional in the USA
include (but are not limited to):
Understanding and relating to systems, policies and rules
Holding checks and having control methods for possible
hazardous exposures
Mathematical and statistical analysis
Examining manufacturing hazards
Planning safe work practices for systems, facilities, and
equipment
Understanding and using safety, health, and environmental
science information for the improvement of procedures
Interpersonal communication skills