[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 9]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1960.31]

[Page 174]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
CHAPTER XVII--OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                          OF LABOR (CONTINUED)
 
PART 1960_BASIC PROGRAM ELEMENTS FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEE OCCUPATIONAL 
SAFETY AND HEALTH PROGRAMS AND RELATED MATTERS--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart D_Inspection and Abatement
 
Sec. 1960.31  Inspections by OSHA.

    (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.