Responsibilities - Employers

Employers are responsible for providing a safe workplace. This means the workplace must not have any serious hazards. Employers must follow all relevant OSHA safety and health standards.

Employers must find and correct safety and health problems. They must first try to eliminate or reduce hazards by making changes in working conditions. If that is not possible, the employer must provide other controls to ensure the safety of all workers.

Employers must also:

• Inform employees about hazards through training, labels, alarms, color-coded systems, safety data sheets, and other methods
• Keep accurate records of work-related injuries and illnesses
• Perform tests in the workplace, such as the air sampling required by some OSHA standards
• Post OSHA citations, injury and illness data, and the OSHA poster in the workplace where workers will see them
• Notify OSHA of all work-related fatalities within 8 hours, and all work-related inpatient hospitalizations, all amputations, and all losses of an eye within 24 hours
• Not discriminate or retaliate against a worker for exercising their rights under the law

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