OSHA
I. Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), “Basic Program Elements for Federal Employee Occupational Safety and Health Programs and Related Matters; Subpart I for Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements”, The Federal Register Journal, Aug 2013 Vol. 78 Issue 150, pp. 180-191.
II. The article reports some of the safety and health standards that are included and covered within the occupational safety and health act and administration (OSHA). According to the author, The OSHA is one of the United States amendments and it was founded in 1970 to preserve people’s rights of a safe and healthful workplace. The OSHA is advising employers of all agencies and sectors to report employees’ illness, injuries or deaths to them because …show more content…
Also, they restated the status of some public agencies like U.S. Postal Service In order to avoid confusions. The OSHA has changed some of its policies to be suitable for private sector agencies. The recent alterations that were created are enforcing government agencies to submit the collected data of workers’ obtained diseases and live losses every year. to be able to submit the data, agencies of all sectors will need to follow some specific procedure and turn in their data on the listed dates by the OSHA. OSHA uses the gathered data to make injury and illness data annually. To help agencies with their submission date difficulties, they changes the due date system to make it more adequate and appropriate for them. Because records of employees’ injuries and illnesses are important, it is important that the assigned employee of collecting the data and reports must turn them in to OSHA without further modification or changes that would effect the accuracy of the data and agencies from all sectors are expected to do that since the new changes have directed that all agencies will receive the same treatments, conduct the same procedures, and have the same
II. The article reports some of the safety and health standards that are included and covered within the occupational safety and health act and administration (OSHA). According to the author, The OSHA is one of the United States amendments and it was founded in 1970 to preserve people’s rights of a safe and healthful workplace. The OSHA is advising employers of all agencies and sectors to report employees’ illness, injuries or deaths to them because …show more content…
Also, they restated the status of some public agencies like U.S. Postal Service In order to avoid confusions. The OSHA has changed some of its policies to be suitable for private sector agencies. The recent alterations that were created are enforcing government agencies to submit the collected data of workers’ obtained diseases and live losses every year. to be able to submit the data, agencies of all sectors will need to follow some specific procedure and turn in their data on the listed dates by the OSHA. OSHA uses the gathered data to make injury and illness data annually. To help agencies with their submission date difficulties, they changes the due date system to make it more adequate and appropriate for them. Because records of employees’ injuries and illnesses are important, it is important that the assigned employee of collecting the data and reports must turn them in to OSHA without further modification or changes that would effect the accuracy of the data and agencies from all sectors are expected to do that since the new changes have directed that all agencies will receive the same treatments, conduct the same procedures, and have the same