I would have to agree with the OSHA advocate’s viewpoint. According to our text states on p. 86, OSHA was created to ensure that employers provide safe and healthy working conditions for their employees. At the time that OSHA was created, there were nearly 14,000 deaths that were caused by workplace accidents, and about 2.5 million workers were disabled due to unsafe conditions. Obviously, something needed to be done in order to protect workers. According to https://www.osha.gov/as/opa/osha-at-30.html, since OSHA has been implemented, the U.S. occupational injury rate is 40% lower from 1971, and deaths from occupational injuries are 60% lower. Although OSHA receives many complaints from those who think that they don’t do enough to those
