Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Architecture is a high-risk industry including a wide range of activities including construction, remodeling and / or repair. Examples include residential construction, bridge construction, road paving, excavation, demolition, and large-scale painting work. Construction workers are working on a number of activities that may be subject to serious risks such as falling from the roof, unattended machines, impact from heavy machinery, electric shock, silicon dust, asbestos and so on.

In these building industry web pages, information, tools, and information designed to help industry participants (workers or employers) identify, mitigate and eliminate building related risks, Provide resources.

OSHA has developed this Web page to provide the latest information on the construction industry to workers and employers. For other valuable worker protection information such as worker's rights, employer's responsibility, and other services provided by OSHA please visit the OSHA Workers page.

Provide workplace safety standards and regulations to ensure safe working conditions of national construction workers, coordinate with other regulatory bodies and support implementation and enforcement of major building laws and standards

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration was formerly part of the US Department of Labor and was established as part of the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970. Its mission is to prevent injury, illness and death in the workplace by enacting and enforcing workplace safety and hygiene regulations (called standards). - Ensuring employee health and safety is extremely important to the organization. The organization is working on maintaining safety facilities, sponsorsing appropriate training programs, and providing necessary safety equipment.

To establish workplace safety and health standards, the law also established the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as a research institution of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA is a division of the US Department of Labor, oversees the management of the law, and carries out standards in all 50 states.

OSHA represents the Occupational Safety and Health Bureau of the US Department of Labor. The role of OSHA is to protect the safety and health of workers. The US Congress established OSHA based on the Occupational Safety and Health Act (Occupational Safety and Health Act) in 1970. In 1911, Triangle Shirtwaist was fired in New York and 500 employees occurred. 146 people died in one of the most serious work related disasters in our history. Factory workers, mainly young female immigrants, work long hours with low wages, died because the door is locked and there is no escape path. The tragedy furiousized the public and called for reform of security and health. Francis Perkins, who later became Minister of Labor, investigated triangular fires and tried to find ways to prevent future incidents.

In the United States, President Richard Nixon signed the Industrial Safety and Health Act as a law on December 29, 1970. The bill founded three institutions to manage it. These include the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, and the Occupational Safety and Health Review Committee. The law authorizes the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to manage 50 states, the District of Columbia and private employers in that area. The bill that enacted the bill includes a general responsibility clause (29 USC § 654, 5 (a)) obliging the employer to comply with this law and its derivation rules and to provide "employment and employment place" to employees It is. The perceived risk is the risk that may cause or cause death or serious physical harm to the employee. "