§152502 — Title 36 Patriotic and National Observances | U.S. Code

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Must promote and improve safety and health for employees, employers, children, and the public in workplaces, farms, schools and colleges, homes, on streets and highways, in recreation, and other public and private places in the United States and its territories and possessions. Must collect, organize, publish, and share educational reports and other safety data; keep people interested in safety and encourage individuals, businesses, and organizations to use safety practices; run programs like lectures and conferences; create and support local safety chapters nationwide and give them guidance and materials; work with public and private groups and agencies; and take any lawful actions needed to carry out these goals.

Title 36, §152502

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The purposes of the corporation are—

(1)to further, encourage, and promote methods and procedures leading to increased safety, protection, and health among employees, employers, and children in industries, on farms, in schools and colleges, in homes, on streets and highways, in recreation, and in other public and private places;

(2)to collect, correlate, publish, and disseminate educational and informative reports and all other data related to safety methods and procedures;

(3)to arouse and maintain the interest of the people of the United States and its territories and possessions in safety and accident prevention, and to encourage the adoption and institution of safety methods by all individuals, corporations, and other organizations;

(4)to organize, establish, and conduct programs, lectures, conferences, and other activities for the education of all individuals, corporations, and other organizations in safety methods and procedures;

(5)to organize and aid in organizing local safety chapters throughout the United States and its territories and possessions, and to provide organizational guidance and materials to promote the national safety;

(6)to cooperate with, enlist, and develop the cooperation of and among all individuals, corporations, and other organizations and agencies, public and private, engaged in, interested in, or in any manner connected with, any of these purposes; and

(7)to do any lawful acts necessary, useful, suitable, desirable, and proper for the furtherance and accomplishment of any of these purposes.

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Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 15250236:463.Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 429, § 3, 67 Stat. 569. Before clause (1), the word “object” is omitted as included in “purposes”. In clause (2), the words “distribute” and “data” (the first time appearing) are omitted as unnecessary.

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