OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

federal job safety law; occupational safety and health act

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("occupational safety and health act" is a kind of...):

legislation; statute law (law enacted by a legislative body)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

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