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Noun: occupational safety and health act
  1. (law) 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
    - federal job safety law

Derived forms: occupational safety and health acts

Type of: legislation, statute law