Although OSHA has helped to significantly reduce the number of workplace fatalities,the number of workers contracting occupational illnesses has remained the same.

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Since its beginning in 1970,OSHA has helped to cut workplace fatalities by more than 60 percent and occupational injury and illness by 40 percent.At the same time,U.S.employment has more than doubled from 56 million workers at 3.5 million work sites to more than 125 million workers.The agency has helped standardize reasonable worker protections.Rules defining confined spaces,machine guards,or hard hat zones have allowed many plant managers and site supervisors to think more about productivity,not accidents.The most frequently mentioned hazard that OSHA addresses has to do with missing or inadequate fall protection.

Although OSHA Has Helped to Significantly Reduce the Number of Workplace