TEXT VERSION OF SLIDE:
Title: History of OSHA
Type: Text and picture slide
Content: Includes picture of the Occupational Safety and Health
Act of 1970 document.
- OSHA stands for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration,
an agency of the U.S. Department of Labor
- OSHA's responsibility is worker safety and health protection
- On December 29, 1970, President Nixon signed the OSH Act
- This Act created OSHA, the agency, which formally came into
being on April 28, 1971
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