Is osha.gov legit or a scam?
Official U.S. government website for OSHA, providing workplace safety regulations and compliance resources with a 28-year history of legitimate operation.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The screenshot shows a standard CloudFront 403 error page, indicating the request was blocked or the server is misconfigured; visual cues are neutral.
What our vision model saw
1 signalPage renders a 403 Forbidden error from CloudFront
MT Intelligence
The domain is a verified .gov address, which is restricted to official U.S. government entities. Our records show this domain has been active for over 10,000 days, aligning with the agency's long-standing history. Technical scans show zero detections across 92 antivirus engines and a clean reputation for the hosting infrastructure. While some users may encounter a temporary loading error or access restriction depending on their network, the site's identity is confirmed through federal records and official Department of Labor links. We found no evidence of malicious activity originating from this domain.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for osha.gov, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official website of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a federal agency under the Department of Labor, as confirmed by USA.gov, DOL, and Wikipedia.
- Domain has been in use for over 28 years (approximately 10,499 days as provided), consistent with OSHA's establishment in 1971 and long-standing .gov presence.
- OSHA actively warns about scams and phishing campaigns that impersonate the agency, including fake training providers, inspection threats, and malware-laced emails.
- No direct complaints, negative reviews, or scam reports found targeting osha.gov itself; all scam references involve third-party impersonation of OSHA.
- Listed as the official site on USA.gov and linked from Department of Labor pages.
- Provides official resources for filing complaints, whistleblower protections, training facts, and workplace safety standards.
- Reddit discussions advise users to only trust osha.gov for official information and warn against .com training or compliance sites.
- UCSF ITopen
"Cyber criminals have launched a series of phishing attacks impersonating the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)."
- FTCopen
"The Federal Trade Commission has charged a Florida man and his company with bilking at least $1.3 million from newly-opened small businesses by pretending to be a federal government agency... phony OSHA scam."
- FELS.netopen
"Fed OSHA Warns On "Upcoming Inspection" "Phishing" Emails... DOL and OSHA do NOT send notifications about upcoming compliance inspections."
U.S. federal government agency under the Department of Labor, established by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (1-800-321-6742).
- Links to 10 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://osha.gov/
- 2301https://osha.gov/
- 3200https://www.osha.gov/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on osha.gov and not a lookalike like o-sha.gov.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on osha.gov. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- osha.gov passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 96/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. osha.gov presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, expiring in 116 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- osha.gov is 28.8 years old, registered on 10/1/1997 through get.gov. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report osha.gov as clean.
- No. osha.gov is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- osha.gov resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. osha.gov sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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