The OSHA Law

Introduction:

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were created in 1970 by the United Congress and President Richard Nixon to protect workers from haphazard and dangerous work zone. The national public health agency was dedicated to the basic proposition that no works should have to choose between their life and their job (https://www.osha.gov/Publications/3302-06N-2006-English.html). The principal federal law requiring private sector employees to keep their workplace free from hazards that threaten the safety and health of employees is the Occupational Safety and Health Act. The OSHA law makes it clear that the right to a safe workplace is a basic human right.

On September 19, 2002, a trench collapse at a sewer construction

Sergio Lopez acted as a translator for Palomar because he only speaks Spanish. Rick Dzamba is Sergio Lopez boss. Both testify; but due to the contrary in their statement, both are not credible. Moreover, other employees have testified that they did not received instructions training in trench safety. Moreover, they never had any safety meeting at the beginning of the workday on September 19, 2002. Based upon the witness testimony, William was charge in 4 counts of violation. The first violation was failing to instruct employees to recognized unsafe condition and eliminating other hazards. William provided no training in trenching hazard which causes the accident; although Williams’s supervisors were familiarized with OSHA regulation. The second violation was because William only provides one safe means of egress at the east end of the 45 ft. trench. An employee working less than 25 ft. from an exit may find it necessary to go further from the egress point to satisfy a completion of the job. Therefore, it is foreseeable of the danger zone will be exposed to the danger itself. Regardless of the case, William violated OSHA because as long as employees have access to a dangerous area more than 25 feet from a means of an egress. Their third violation is failing to designate a “competent person” with sufficient training and knowledge to identify and correct existing and predictable hazards.

Federal regulation of coal mines were first enacted in the late 1800s. Early legislation concentrated on the major issues of the job safety, accidents, injuries, and death. Congress enacted OSHA Act in 1970 which created OSHA, a federal administrative agency. The act states that employers must provide employees a workplace “free from recognized hazard that causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm. Therefore, it is unavailing for Williams to argue that employees must take greater care to avoid placing themselves in harms ways when William didn’t provide instruction or training for its employees (Meiner, Ringleb and Edward,