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The Bureau of Labor Standards of the Department of Labor has worked on some work safety issues since its creation in 1934. [4] Economic boom and associated labor turnover during World War II worsened work safety in nearly all areas of the United States economy, but after 1945 accidents again declined as long-term forces reasserted themselves. [5]
The Act created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), an agency of the Department of Labor. OSHA was given the authority both to set and enforce workplace health and safety standards. [14] The Act also created the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission to review enforcement priorities, actions and cases ...
[24] [25] Its headquarters were established in Washington, D.C. in 1918, and field stations in Salt Lake City in 1949, and in Cincinnati in 1950. [25] [26] NIOSH was created by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 [27] and began operating in May 1971. [25]
OSHA was established in 1971 under the Department of Labor. It has headquarters in Washington, DC, and ten regional offices, further broken down into districts, each organized into three sections: compliance, training, and assistance.
1970 – Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act (created OSHA and NIOSH) 1970 – Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act; 1970 – Environmental Quality Improvement Act; 1972 – Federal Water Pollution Control Amendments of 1972 (P.L. 92-500). Major rewrite.
Occupational Safety and Health Act (United States) of 1970, a federal law in the United States, the act that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration mentioned above; Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994, a national law of Malaysia; European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, an agency of the European Union
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was established by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 from the United States Atomic Energy Commission, and opened January 19, 1975. The NRC oversees reactor safety and security, reactor licensing and renewal, radioactive material safety, and spent fuel management (storage, security, recycling, and ...
Over the 20th century, federal law created minimum social and economic rights, and encouraged state laws to go beyond the minimum to favor employees. [4] The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 requires a federal minimum wage , currently $7.25 but higher in 29 states and D.C., and discourages working weeks over 40 hours through time-and-a-half ...