OSHA Coverage
The OSH Act covers most private sector employers and their workers, in addition to some public sector employers and workers in the 50 states and certain territories and jurisdictions under federal authority. Those jurisdictions include the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Wake Island, Johnston Island, and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands.
State Plans
The OSH Act encourages states to develop and operate their own job safety and health programs and precludes state enforcement of OSHA standards unless the state has an approved program. State Plans are OSHA-approved job safety and health programs operated by individual states rather than federal OSHA.
State-run safety and health programs must be at least as effective (ALAE) as the federal OSHA program. OSHA approves these state plans, monitors them, and provides up to fifty percent of the funding for each program.
Currently, 22 State Plans cover both private-sector and state and local government employees. An additional seven State Plans cover state and local government employees only.
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