How to Meet OSHA Standards

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, better known as OSHA, is the government agency responsible for enforcing safety and health legislation in the workplace. OSHA was created in response to the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970 in order to help employers provide a safe working environment for their employees. Since OSHA’s establishment, injury and illness rates in the workplace have dropped 60 percent, and occupational deaths have dropped to their lowest annual number since 1992.

OSHA has a set of requirements that each employer must follow to comply with legislation. Employers are required to uphold or adopt the necessary practices in order to protect workers on the job. They must be well versed and compliant with standards relevant to their establishment and enforce the use of personal protective equipment in the workplace that is required for safety and health purposes.

In order to accomplish these goals, OSHA has issued standards for most workplace regulations. Current legislation covers workplace hazards, requiring the use of safety signs and identification tags to label toxic substances, harmful physical agents, electrical hazards, fall hazards, trenching hazards, hazardous waste, infectious diseases, fire and explosion hazards, dangerous atmospheres, machine hazards, and confined spaces.

There is also legislation that covers areas where there are no specific standards. In this case, employers must comply with OSHA’s General Duty Clause. Under this act, each employer must “furnish ... a place of employment which [is] free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees.”

It is vital that employers comply with all of OSHA’s standards at all times. Statistics show that almost 5,200 American workers die each year from workplace accidents. Nearly 50,000 employees die from workplace illnesses, and as many as 4.3 million people endure non-fatal workplace injuries and illnesses. Occupational injuries and illnesses result in more than $156 billion per year.

These accidents and costs can easily be avoided. There are companies, such as Seton.com, that offer safety products to meet every aspectmany apsects of OSHA’s legislation. Seton has a full product line of industrial safety products, industrial security products, and facility maintenance products that can be customized to your exact specifications, guaranteed to meet OSHA standards as well as your own company needs.

It is easy to customize OSHA approved signs, identification tags, labels, safety products, security products, pipe markers, and much more with a company logo, colors, specific wording, material, and size. Seton’s Design Your Own feature allows the customer to select size, material, color and wording to customize the product online, and then instantly view it on-screen in order to proof it and make changes before placing the order. Ordering is quick and easy, and many custom products ship same day.

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