The manual is the first of six student manuals for use in a course on occupational health and safety for supervisory personnel. The manual contains lessons 1-3 of the 15 consecutively-numbered lessons, each of which contains study questions (and answers) interwoven with the text and review questions at the end of each section. Lesson 1 (three pages) is a brief informative introduction to the problems of occupational health and safety with a set of instructions for the manual's use. Lesson 2 (28 pages) is an examination of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 with respect to definitions, permanent and temporary emergency standards, inspections, the Federal Register, citations and proposed penalties, the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, recordkeeping requirements, and State programs. Lesson 3 (15 pages) is a survey of the types of records kept by the employer, with sample forms and case histories. (JR)