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[Music] you may never read an osha regulation see an osha inspector or attend an osha training class but the rules and regulations that osha develops and enforces help keep you safe on the job in today's program we'll discuss why osha was created what its mission is and how it affects both you and your employer osha stands for the occupational safety and health administration an agency of the u.s department of labor osha has the responsibility for protecting worker safety and health the u.s congress created osha under the occupational safety and health act of 1970 the osh act congress passed this law and established osha to assure so far as possible every working man and woman in the nation's safe and helpful working conditions and to preserve our human resources osha was created because until 1970 there were no national laws protecting employees from safety and health hazards with the creation of osha for the first time all employers in the united states had the legal responsibility t