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OSHA

OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, is the federal agency that sets and enforces workplace safety rules in the United States. It was created to protect workers from hazards, including exposure to harmful substances like asbestos. OSHA writes limits on how much asbestos workers can be exposed to and requires employers to monitor, control, and warn about it.

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Origin

OSHA was established by the Occupational Safety and Health Act, signed into law in 1970, and began operating in 1971 within the U.S. Department of Labor. It issued its first asbestos standard in 1971 and has tightened the permissible exposure limit several times since.

Significance in Asbestos Context

For patients, OSHA's history matters because the timing of its rules helps show what employers knew and were required to do. OSHA repeatedly lowered the legal asbestos exposure limit as the dangers became undeniable, and the gap between what was known and how slowly limits fell is part of the story in many cases. If you were exposed after 1971, OSHA records, air-monitoring results, and citations can be evidence about your workplace. Exposure that continued despite OSHA rules can also support claims that an employer or product maker ignored known hazards. Keep in mind that meeting OSHA limits doesn't prove a workplace was safe, since even "permissible" levels have caused disease.

Permissible Exposure Limit, Occupational Exposure, EPA, Government Regulations & Policies, Air Monitoring, Duty to Warn

Notes

  • If you were exposed after 1971, ask whether your employer's OSHA air-monitoring records still exist and can be obtained.
  • Note that compliance with OSHA limits is not proof of safety, and say so if a defendant claims otherwise.
  • Preserve any safety citations, inspection reports, or exposure records tied to your workplaces.

People

People the documents tie to OSHA, most often named first, with the titles the documents give them.

Court cases

2 court decisions in our case-law library name OSHA as a defendant, newest first.

In our library

3 documents in our library name OSHA, by collection.

JM Knowledge Chronology (1)

Motley 1000 (1)

Other library documents (1)

In the Union Carbide documents

OSHA is named in 1,416 Union Carbide documents dated 1959 to 2003 (31 as the source, 1414 mentioned), from asbestos lawsuits over Union Carbide's Calidria asbestos. 1,398 of them are published in our collection.

And 1,248 more documents.

Names in the documents

The spellings documents use for OSHA, OCR misreadings included, so a search for any of them finds this page: Occupational Safety and Health Administration · Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) · U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration · Federal OSHA · Cal/OSHA · Cal-OSHA · CAL-OSHA Standards Board · Occupational Safety & Health Administration · Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) · Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Department of Labor · O.S.H.A · OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) · Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) · U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration · Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) · U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration · NIOSH-OSHA Asbestos Work Group · OSHA Division of Consumer Affairs · OSHA Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health · Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Clear Lake City Area Office · OSHA Advisory Committee · U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Houston, Texas) · U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Charleston, West Virginia) · OSHA Office of Standards · BLS/OSHA · Cal OSHA · Occupational Safety and Health Standard (OSHA) · U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration · U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) · U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (published in the Federal Register) · Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Houston South Area Office · U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (NIOSH) and U.S. Department of Labor (OSHA) · U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Area Office, Minneapolis · Cal/OSHA Standards Board · State OSHA · U. S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Houston Area Office · OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration-Department of Labor) · NPCA OSHA Committee · Colorado State OSHA · California Department of Industrial Relations, Cal/OSHA Consultation Service · U.S. Government, Code of Federal Regulations, Title 29 (Labor), Occupational Safety and Health Administration · OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration), newsletter 'OSHA News Briefs' · Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration · St. Luke's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio (statement presented to the U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA) · United States Department of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health Administration · U. S. Department of Labor, Federal OSHA · OSHA (U.S. Department of Labor) · Federal OSHA Construction Industry Advisory Committee · Federal OSHA Compliance Laboratory · OSHA News Briefs (publisher not shown on the pages) · Occupational Safety & Health Admin., Houston South Area Office · Federal OSHA, Region IX · U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Clear Lake City Area Office (Houston, TX) · OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Act) · NICA OSHA Task Force · Dept. of Labor - Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) · U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Charleston, West Virginia Area Office) · U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA-7 complaint form) · U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health Administration.

Where this comes from

This page brings together every document in our library that names OSHA, across collections. Titles and affiliations are taken from the documents themselves, and units and subsidiaries are grouped under the company they belong to.

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