The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) was established in 1970 in the United States to ensure safe and healthy working conditions. OSHA's mission is to set and enforce standards to protect workers' safety and health through enforcement, education, and assistance. It addresses various workplace hazards and has helped reduce injuries, illnesses, and deaths on the job in the US. OSHA was also founded in Malaysia in 1993 to promote workplace safety standards and awareness. Under OSHA, employers must provide a safe workplace and training to employees, while employees have rights like filing complaints and participating in inspections.

1. OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND
HEALTH ACT (OSHA)
Prepared by
Kauthar Yusuf Maalim

2. CONTENTS
• INTODUCTION
• MISSION
• IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES
• HAZARDS ADRESSED
• IMPACTS
• OSHA IN MALAYSIA
• RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN OSHA’S LAW

3. INTRODUCTION
• OSHA stands for “Occupational Safety and
Health Act”
– Established in 1970 in America
• OSHA is an agency which has oversight for
workers safety and health

4. MISSION
To assure safe and healthful working
conditions for working men and women by
setting and enforcing standards and by
providing training, outreach, education and
assistance

5. IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES
• Strong, fair, and effective enforcement
• Education, and compliance assistance
• Partnerships, Alliances and other cooperative
and voluntary programs

6. HAZARDS ADRESSED
• Toxic substances
• Harmful physical agents
• Electrical hazards
• Hazardous waste
• Infectious diseases
• Fire and explosion hazards

7. OSHA’S IMPACTS
• It helps the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration to help employers and employees
reduce injuries, illnesses and deaths on the job
• Workplace fatalities have been cut by more than 60
percent
• Occupational injury and illness rates have declined
40 percent

8. OSHA IN MALAYSIA
• Founded in 1993
• Provides a legislative framework to stimulate
and encourage high standards of safety and
health at work
• Promote safety and health awareness and
establish effective safety organization through
self regulation

9. OBJECTIVES
• To establish training programs to increase the
number and competence of occupational safety and
health personnel
• To develop mandatory job safety and health
standards and enforce them effectively
• To encourage employers and employees to reduce
workplace hazards and to implement new or improve
existing safety and health programs

10. RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
UNDER OSHA

11. EMPLOYERS RESPONSIBILITIES
• Employers MUST provide their workers with a
workplace that does not have serious hazards and
must follow all OSHA safety and health standards
• Inform workers about chemical hazards through
training, labels, alarms, color-coded.
• Provide safety training to workers in a language and
vocabulary they can understand.

12. • Perform tests in the workplace, such as air
sampling, required by some OSHA standards
• Provide required personal protective
equipment at no cost to workers
• Provide hearing exams or other medical tests
required by OSHA standards
• Keep accurate records of work-related injuries

13. • Notify OSHA within 8 hours of a workplace
fatality

14. EMPLOYEES RIGHTS
• File a confidential complaint with OSHA to have their
workplace inspected
• Receive information and training about hazards,
methods to prevent harm, and the OSHA standards
that apply to their workplace.
– The training must be done in a language and vocabulary
workers can understand.

15. • Receive copies of records of work-related
injuries and illnesses that occur in their
workplace
• Receive copies of the results from tests and
monitoring done to find and measure hazards
in their workplace
• Receive copies of their workplace medical
records.

16. • File a complaint with OSHA if they have been
retaliated against by their employer as the result of
requesting an inspection or using any of their other
rights under the OSH Act
• Participate in an OSHA inspection and speak in
private with the inspector.
• File a complaint if punished or retaliated against for
acting as a “whistleblower” under the 21 additional
federal laws for which OSHA has jurisdiction