29 CFR §1960.31
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- (a)The Secretary or the Secretary's representatives are authorized to conduct, when the Secretary deems necessary, announced or unannounced inspections in the following situations:
- (1)Where an agency has not established occupational safety and health committees or where committees no longer operate in conformance to the requirements of subpart F of this part;
- (2)In response to a request from half the membership of record of any certified safety and health committee; and
- (3)In response to an employee's report of an imminent danger situation, where there is a certified committee, but where the Secretary determines that neither the agency nor the committee has responded to the employee.
- (b)The Secretary's inspectors or evaluators are authorized: to enter without delay, and at reasonable times, any building, installation, facility, construction site, or other area, workplace, or environment where work is performed by employees of the agency; to inspect and investigate during regular working hours and at other reasonable times, and within reasonable limits and in a reasonable manner, any such place of employment, and all pertinent conditions, structures, machines, apparatus, devices, equipment, and materials therein, and to question privately any employee, any supervisory employee, and/or any official in charge of an establishment.
- (c)The Secretary may also make scheduled inspections as an integral part of OSHA's evaluation of an agency's safety and health program in accordance with subpart J of this part.
- (d)OSHA inspections shall follow the general format set forth for agency inspections in other applicable parts of this subpart.