Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) Resources for Employers and Employees

Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) Resources for Employers and Employees

When Congress enacted OSHA it created a cumbersome snarl of workplace regulations.

It also drastically made sure workers of every stripe had a better chance of getting home to their families every night. These regulations are vital for any business to follow to ensure employee safety and to avoid lawsuits and enforcement headaches.

While the regulations themselves are can be difficult to parse in order to comply with them, there are abundant resources available to help make implementation as easy as possible and to keep compliance costs down.

This OSHA resource guide aims to be the most comprehensive free guide available and do the legwork of making complying with OSHA as easily as possible. It includes a wide range of resources.


Table of Contents

  1. Government Resources
  2. Professional Organizations
  3. Worker Resources
  4. OSHA Blogs
  5. Message Boards and Forums
  6. Conferences
  7. Health & Safety Publications
  8. Twitter Follows
  9. Podcasts
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Government Resources

1

While going directly to the Code of Federal Regulation or the United States Code is something even labor lawyers avoid, the federal government is always striving to find ways that make OSHA regulations easier to understand and comply with.

These sources give you the information straight from the horse’s mouth, and in ways you can easily understand.

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Professional Organizations

2

While the government offers ample resources, it may be easier to understand your OSHA requirements from people in the field who work on implementing these laws day in and day out.

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Worker Resources

3

While many employers treat OSHA as just another intrusive government headache, workers realize these regulations can literally be life or death. These tools will help you keep yourself safe, even if management doesn’t want to.

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OSHA Blogs

4

Let’s face it: reading professional resources, whether from the government or the private sector, can become dull in a hurry. These more informal blogs take a more relaxed approach to helping people understand their duties under OSHA.

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Message Boards and Forums

5

Odds are, if you have a specific question, somebody else has run into it before.

They may have spent hours researching online to try and find the answer and come up dry. Thankfully, there are message boards where people can ask questions and get other people in the field to answer.

If you’re lucky, somebody’s already asked the question and someone else has already answered. If not, you can ask yourself and potentially receive an answer in hours.

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Conferences

6

Figuring out how to comply with OSHA takes time, and with new regulations coming out every year, it’s hard to keep up. If you’re going to have to spend time and money making sure your business is compliant, you may as well sneak in a working vacation and attend a conference.

Health & Safety Publications

7

Publications Regulations change regularly, and best practices are always continuing to develop and morph. One great way to keep up to date on all the latest is a good workplace safety periodical.

Twitter Follows

8

If OSHA releases a new regulation about trees falling in the woods and nobody hears it, can you still be held liable?

Of course you can.

You can augment your professional efforts to stay OSHA compliant by adding these accounts to your social media feeds.

comic relief

It’s impossible to be perfect at workplace safety, but occasionally the missteps of others lightens the guilt of our own shortcomings.

Check out OSHA Is This OK? on Facebook, Instagram and as an independent hashtag next time your own compliance efforts get the better of you.

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Podcasts

9

It can be hard to find time in the day to check in on OSHA and get all of the latest safety tips. Subscribing to these podcasts allows you to get the latest on OSHA while at work, driving, or anyplace else you may be.

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