[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 5]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1903.3]

[Page 28-29]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
CHAPTER XVII--OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                                OF LABOR
 
PART 1903_INSPECTIONS, CITATIONS AND PROPOSED PENALTIES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1903.3  Authority for inspection.

    (a) Compliance Safety and Health Officers of the Department of Labor 
are authorized to enter without delay and at reasonable times any 
factory, plant, establishment, construction site, or other area, 
workplace or environment where work is performed by an employee of an 
employer; to inspect and investigate during regular working hours and at 
other reasonable times, and within reasonable limits and in a

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reasonable manner, any such place of employment, and all pertinent 
conditions, structures, machines, apparatus, devices, equipment and 
materials therein; to question privately any employer, owner, operator, 
agent or employee; and to review records required by the Act and 
regulations published in this chapter, and other records which are 
directly related to the purpose of the inspection. Representatives of 
the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare are authorized to make 
inspections and to question employers and employees in order to carry 
out the functions of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 
under the Act. Inspections conducted by Department of Labor Compliance 
Safety and Health Officers and representatives of the Secretary of 
Health, Education, and Welfare under section 8 of the Act and pursuant 
to this part 1903 shall not affect the authority of any State to conduct 
inspections in accordance with agreements and plans under section 18 of 
the Act.
    (b) Prior to inspecting areas containing information which is 
classified by an agency of the United States Government in the interest 
of national security, Compliance Safety and Health Officers shall have 
obtained the appropriate security clearance.