occupational safety and health act

1. 1.

   a law passed by the United States Congress that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment

   Synonymsfederal job safety law

   Broaderlegislation

   law

Questions about occupational safety and health act

What does occupational safety and health act mean?

occupational safety and health act means "a law passed by the United States Congress that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment".

What is another word for occupational safety and health act?

Close synonyms include federal job safety law. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is occupational safety and health act a common word?

occupational safety and health act is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.