OSHA Law Discussion

OSHA Law Discussion
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1. What is OSHA’s impact on safety in U.S. workplaces?
OSHA is necessary as it compels the employers to provide a safe working environment.
It ensures that employees’ health is protected while they conduct the activities (US Department of Labor, 2018).
It provides for the security of employees to file cases against their employers whenever they mistreat them, or the work conditions are unsafe (US Department of Labor, 2018).2. What are the disadvantages of the OSHA law?
It renders the Human Resource Department powerless as the employees are free to launch their complaints with other services (Society for Human Resource Management, 2008).
It fails to recognize that there are existing institutions that deal with the various cases such as the USERRA which caters for the welfare of veterans and ex-servicemen (Hero, 2017).
It does not put into account that some employees may blackmail their employers via OSHA laws or by acts of whistleblowing(Society for Human Resource Management, 2008).3. What would be the consequences if OSHA were repealed?
The employees would be at the mercy of their employers, and some of them would be fired in case they launched any concerns (Society for Human Resource Management, 2008).
The “employees at will” would be misused in the workplace as the employers are not obligated to having them in the company for a given length of time (NOLO, 2011). So, in case they were to raise any complaints about their s…