OSHA

A culmination of pictures depicting OSHA regulations, some required materials, and related items and their "value" in protecting people.

 

Another item which people fear, much like the police of the workplace, is OSHA. Occupational Safety and Heath Administration (OSHA) has been around for some time, most recently becoming a lot more strict about what it enforces in the average worker's workplace. Many people would say that yes, this organization has its place and it does it's job well, protecting people from more than just themselves. This is usually true seeing as how in the workplace there are many hazards which, if some sort of outsider were to come in, could perhaps become dangers if not properly identified as such. A standardized safety organization is just what the over-worked workers of the industrial revolution needed. Harsh labor conditions have been a problem since humans first started the idea of hierarchy and peasants doing work for some sort of monarch. Clearly the idea is not that foreign and most people today would admit that even though OSHA can bring down some hassles upon an environment, overall its job is well done in keeping the people safe in their cubicles, behind the 24,000 pound press, or flipping on a light switch.1

 

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1http://www.osha.gov/