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RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Employers must:
• Follow all relevant OSHA safety and health standards.
• Find and correct safety and health hazards.
• Inform employees about chemical hazards through training, labels, alarms, color-coded systems, chemical information sheets and other methods.
• Notify OSHA within 8 hours of a workplace fatality or when three or more workers are hospitalized (1-800-321-OSHA [6742]).
• Provide required personal protective equipment at no cost to workers.*
• Keep accurate records of work-related injuries and illnesses.
• Post OSHA citations, injury and illness summary data, and the OSHA “Job Safety and Health - It’s The Law” poster in the workplace where workers will see them.
• Not discriminate or retaliate against any worker for using their rights under the law.