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This study shows that the United Kingdom(UK) enacted the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act in 1802, and this act became the first of the Labor Law and the Occupational Safety and Health Acts(OSHA). After that, many kinds of OSHA have been legislated to protect workers and applied up-to-date. The UK adopts case law and an unwritten law called 'Common Law' to be a base. This 'Common Law' has been built up and developed around law reports made by Common court. The UK law, unlike the Continental law which is a special law, legislates when there are specific objectives. And according to the objectives of special regulation, it applies legal binding force. The type of legislation like this plays an important role to change an employer's way of thinking about safety and health of workers at workplace.