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| Item# | gov14023 |
| Price | $2.00 |
| ISBN# | 1-880398-86-9 |
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OSHA: Employee Workplace Rights
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration
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Developed by The U.S. Department Of Labor, Washington, D.C.
The Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act of 1970 created the Occupational Safety and health Administration (OSHA) within the Department of Labor and encouraged employers and employees to reduce workplace hazards and to implement safety and health programs. In so doing, this gave employees many new rights and responsibilities.
This booklet covers many of those standards and other workplace rights under OSHA:
- OSHA standards and workplace hazards
- right to know
- access to exposure and medical records
- cooperative efforts to reduce hazards
- OSHA inspections
- employee representative
- helping the compliance officer
- observing monitoring
- reviewing OSHA Form 200
- after an inspection
- challenging abatement period
- variances
- confidentiality
- review if no inspection is made
- discrimination for using rights
- employee responsibilities
- contacting NIOSH
- other sources of OSHA assistance
- safety and health program management guidelines
- state programs
- consultation service
- voluntary protection programs (VPP)
- training and education
- electronic information
- emergencies
- OSHA related publications
- states with approved plans
- OSHA consultation project directory
- OSHA area offices
- OSHA regional offices
- ...and more
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