Per its website, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration's (OSHA) role is to "assure safe and healthful working 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. (http://www.osha.gov/)