What is the mission of OSHA?

• A. To ensure safe and healthful workplaces
• B. To maximize corporate profits
• C. To minimize training costs
• D. To regulate all medical devices

Answer: (A)

The mission is to ensure safe and healthful workplaces by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education, and assistance. OSHA creates rules to prevent hazards, inspects workplaces, and takes action to ensure compliance, while also helping employers and workers understand how to stay safe. This focus on preventing injuries, illnesses, and deaths is why choosing the option about safety and health is correct. The other choices miss the point: maximizing profits isn’t OSHA’s goal, reducing training costs isn’t its purpose, and regulating all medical devices is handled by agencies like the FDA, not OSHA.