What does OSHA do?

• A. Helps prevent workplace injury, illness, and death by promoting safe work environments
• B. Regulates hazardous waste disposal
• C. Defines what is meant by universal precautions
• D. Sets safety standards for all federal agencies

Answer: (C)

OSHA’s role here is to provide formal definitions for safety practices used in workplaces, including healthcare. Universal precautions are a defined set of infection-control measures that treat blood and certain body fluids as potentially infectious. OSHA codifies what those precautions entail and requires employers to implement them under standards such as the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard. So, the best answer reflects OSHA’s function of defining what universal precautions mean in the workplace and making them enforceable. The other options describe broader aims or different regulatory domains (general workplace safety, hazardous waste regulation, or federal-agency-specific rules) that aren’t as directly tied to OSHA’s definitional role in infection control.