OSH Law Primer, Part XVI: OSHA-Approved State Plans
This is the sixteenth installment in a series of articles intended to provide the reader with a very high-level overview of the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act of 1970 and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and how both influence workplaces in the United States. Quick Hits OSHA-approved state plans have their own workplace safety and health regulations , which must be at least as effective as the corresponding federal OSHA regulations . Within the list of state plan programs, California, Oregon, and Washington are the most active in enforcement. Each state plan has substantial procedural differences and its own system for issuing, appealing, and litigating citations. By the time this series is complete, the reader should be conversant in the subjects covered and have developed a deeper understanding of how the OSH Act and OSHA work. The series is not—nor can it be, of course— a comprehensive study of the OSH Act or OSHA capable of equippi...