Job Safety and Health, IT’S THE LAW!

• Source：EXO
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• Release time：Aug 28th,2023

Informs workers of their rights under the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

All workers have the right to:
ƒ A safe workplace.
ƒ Raise a safety or health concern with your employer or OSHA, or report a workrelated injury or illness, without being retaliated against.
ƒ Receive information and training on job hazards, including all hazardous substances in your workplace.
ƒ Request a confidential OSHA inspection of your workplace if you believe there are unsafe or unhealthy conditions. You have the right to have a representative contact OSHA on your behalf.
ƒ Participate (or have your representative participate) in an OSHA inspection and speak in private to the inspector.
ƒ File a complaint with OSHA within 30 days (by phone, online or by mail) if you have been retaliated against for using your rights.
ƒ See any OSHA citations issued to your employer.
ƒ Request copies of your medical records, tests that measure hazards in the workplace, and the workplace injury and illness log.


Employers must:
ƒ Provide employees a workplace free from recognized hazards. It is illegal to retaliate against an employee for using any of their rights under the law, including raising a health and safety concern with you or with OSHA, or reporting a work-related injury or illness.
ƒ Comply with all applicable OSHA standards.
ƒ Notify OSHA within 8 hours of a workplace fatality or within 24 hours of any work-related inpatient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye.
ƒ Provide required training to all workers in a language and vocabulary they can understand.
ƒ Prominently display this poster in the workplace.
ƒ Post OSHA citations at or near the place of the alleged violations. On-Site Consultation services are available to small and medium-sized employers, without citation or penalty, through OSHA-supported consultation programs in every state.

This  is available free from OSHA.