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The Meaning Of OSHA 1926 For American Workers

By Kurt Keasler


The search term OSHA 1926 will bring up a number of websites concerned with USA occupational health and safety administration. 1926 refers to a sub part of the publications that sets out in great detail what the rights of workers and responsibilities of employers are with special regard to the construction industry. The website is extremely detailed and informative.

OSHA books and an OSHA study guide are available for people who are determined to become employers, though the welter of regulations may be more easy to cope with where large organizations are involved. They can employ people exclusively to deal with regulations and compliance. In this way health and safety becomes an industry in itself, perhaps helping to solve unemployment problems.

To say that OSHA 1926 regulations are comprehensive is almost an understatement. It seems that every nook and cranny of the construction industry and its peripherals is investigated and given its share of regulation. For this reason books, and a study guide are published. The website itself is extremely comprehensive and a interactive study course is offered. It can serve both employers and employees.

Some people may question the extent of health and safety regulation that seems to impose very many obligations upon people who need to profit in order to pay taxes and provide jobs that will in generate tax revenue for governments. Against that argument it may me posited that such legislation actually creates employment in the form of compliance officers, publishers, training courses and executive officers.

Sustainable development has become an important concept since it was realized that unlimited exploitation of natural resources could not continue unabated forever. Economies are predicated on growth, yet limited resources limit that growth. It seems that developed countries might have turned to regulation as ways to compensate for faltering growth. Regulation is not necessarily an inhibitor of growth if it creates new jobs to make money circulate.

OSHA books will deal with rules and regulations that remove stress from occupations that could be dangerous. They will give practical advice on how dangers that are fairly predictable can be prevented so that the trauma of walls falling in people is obviated. For example, if a person is working on a high building and is not wearing a helmet or lifeline an object can strike him on the head causing him to fall to his death.

There are moral and ethical dimensions to OSHA 1926. Most developed economies owe their wealth to the ruthless exploitation of working people. Men, women and children were sent down mines to dig coal, often being trapped there. Now it may be safer to work on a high rise building than to sit in n office worrying and growing stressed. With the bit between their teeth well meaning legislators are bent on creating ever more safe and healthy working conditions. It may even be safer now to work on a building project than in a library.




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