OSHA Updates: crystalline silica safety on the job
In 1970, the U.S. Congress created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in an effort to ensure safe and healthy working conditions for working men and women. One of OSHA’s most important responsibilities is to set and enforce workplace safety standards, which describe the methods that employees must use to protect their workers from hazards. These standards are established after many worksite inspections, and they therefore evolve and change. Supervisors and employees must constantly be made aware of new...
