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Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(redirected from Work safety)

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Noun1.Occupational Safety and Health Administration - a government agency in the Department of Labor to maintain a safe and healthy work environment
OSHA
Department of Labor, Labor Department, DoL, Labor - the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913
bureau, federal agency, government agency, agency, office, authority - an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority"
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Press reports have quoted Zhao Tiechui, deputy head of the state work safety agency, as saying the mine was overcrowded and insufficiently ventilated, contributing to the high toll as volatile gases built up in the mine and exploded.
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The director of the work safety administration is to lead an investigation into the blast, it added.
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The China Daily newspaper Monday quoted Huang Yi, deputy chief of the State Administration of Coal Mine Safety, as saying that the accident ''fully revealed gaps in work safety and inadequacies in gas prevention and control measures.
Death toll in China coal mine explosion rises to 104 by Asian Economic News
 
 
 
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