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OSHA
Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, OSHA's role is to
assure safe and conditions for working men and women; by authorizing
enforcement of the standards developed under the Act; by assisting and
encouraging the States in their efforts to assure safe and healthful working
conditions; by providing for research, information, education, and training
in the field of occupational safety and health
· National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
· The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. The CPSC works to ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals.
· National Transportation Safety Board, an independent Federal agency, is charged by Congress with investigating every civil aviation accident in the United States and significant accidents in the other modes of transportation -- railroad, highway, marine and pipeline -- and issuing safety recommendations aimed at preventing future accidents. The Safety Board determines the probable cause of:
- all U.S. civil aviation accidents and certain
public-use aircraft accidents;
- selected highway accidents;
- railroad accidents involving passenger trains or
any train accident that results in at least one fatality or major
property damage;
- major marine accidents and any marine accident
involving a public and a nonpublic vessel;
- pipeline accidents involving a fatality or
substantial property damage;
- releases of hazardous materials in all forms of
transportation; and
- selected transportation accidents that involve problems of a recurring nature.
- Food & Drug Administration FDA is the federal agency responsible for ensuring that foods are safe, wholesome and sanitary; human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices are safe and effective; cosmetics are safe; and electronic products that emit radiation are safe. FDA also ensures that these products are honestly, accurately and informatively represented to the public
- Federal Trade Commission When the FTC was created in 1914, its purpose was to prevent unfair methods of competition in commerce as part of the battle to “bust the trusts.” Over the years, Congress passed additional laws giving the agency greater authority to police anticompetitive practices. In 1938, Congress passed a broad prohibition against “unfair and deceptive acts or practices.” Since then, the Commission also has been directed to administer a wide variety of other consumer protection laws, including the Telemarketing Sales Rule, the Pay-Per-Call Rule and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. In 1975, Congress gave the FTC the authority to adopt industry-wide trade regulation rules. The FTC’s
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