The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) is administered by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). This act covers employers and employees in the 50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and other U.S territories. Health Administration, OSHA-approved state job safety and health plan, and the Federal Occupational Safety provided the coverage. The coverage also covers the U.S Postal Service employees. The Occupational Health and Safety Act are to ensure the safety and health of the workers by setting and enforcing standards, to minimize death, injury and ill-health from all workplaces. Occupational Health and Safety Act provides Trainings, educations, and encourage continual improvement in workplaces. There are few frameworks to improve Occupational Health and Safety standards announced in March 2005.
The principles of the new framework are to reduce risk by requiring all stakeholders to eliminate or minimize the risks they created in workplace, Instilling greater ownership of Occupational Health and Safety standards, thus, the focus will be then be shifted from complying with prescriptive requirements to make employers suited to their particular situations in order to achieve desired safety outcomes and lastly, preventing accidents through higher penalties for poor safety and health management
Duties of employers. Every employer's duty is to take necessary measures to ensure the safety and health of his employees and people who may be affected by his instructions even though they are not his employees in the workplace. The Act identifies an employee as any "individual involved in a business affecting commerce that has employees, but does not include the United States or any state or political subdivision of a State." Private education, manufacturing, law and medicine, organized labor, construction, disaster reliefs are