OSHA Compliance Report

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is known as a world wide standard for safety, formed in the 70's on behalf of the safety of workers. Under this administration workers are trained and educated in safety and employers are held to a standard of workplace safety. OSHA's codes and regulations are broken down in to fifty eight parts with each containing up to several thousand guidelines to follow. These guidelines cover almost every aspect of a worker job, from taking a lunch break to wages. The purposes of this report is to ask the question “how much does the common worker know”. Do they see all of regulation that OSHA has put in place as a standard of safety or is OSHA ingrain in the common workplace that it is an afterthought

So the question of do they have the same views, the overall answer is no. To them the any question about OSHA is responded back stating that it is safety. With no idea how it effect them unless there is a sign telling them what and how to do something. One of the interviewees live up north where they are in a union so there answer where a blur of employers training, union standard, and OSHA standard. This interviewee has shown that out of the three factors that made up his answers, OSHA standard had the lest influence. Another interviewee states that OSHA is for corporation and it is the corporations that choose the standard for them to follow. So in the common workers eye this is what OSHA is. Now for the people who work on the guidelines it is about equal treatment, they are the ones who are pushing for people to be fairly compensated. Compensated for work they do with equal pay and to compensated encase of injury. Both of these topics had been on the fore front of OSHA for four decades. Yes OSHA standards are written to hold employers accountable for there employees safety and it is a big part of what they do, but they need to be seen for everything they done for the workers in the