[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: 29CFR1975.1]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
CHAPTER XVII--OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                          OF LABOR (CONTINUED)
 
PART 1975_COVERAGE OF EMPLOYERS UNDER THE WILLIAMS-STEIGER OCCUPATIONAL 
SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT OF 1970--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1975.1  Purpose and scope.




Sec.
1975.1 Purpose and scope.
1975.2 Basis of authority.
1975.3 Extent of coverage.
1975.4 Coverage.
1975.5 States and political subdivisions thereof.
1975.6 Policy as to domestic household employment activities in private 
          residences.

    Authority: Secs. 2, 3, 4, 8, Occupational Safety and Health Act of 
1970 (29 U.S.C. 651, 652, 653, 657); Secretary of Labor's Order No. 12-
71 (36 FR 8754).

    Source: 37 FR 929, Jan. 21, 1972, unless otherwise noted.


    (a) Among other things, the Williams-Steiger Act poses certain 
duties on employers. This part has the limited purpose and scope of 
clarifying which persons are considered to be employers either as a 
matter of interpretation of the intent and terms of the Act or as a 
matter of policy appropriate to administering and enforcing the Act. In 
short, the purpose and scope of this part is to indicate which persons 
are covered by the Act as employers and, as such, subject to the 
requirements of the Act.
    (b) It is not the purpose of this part to indicate the legal effect 
of the Act, once coverage is determined. Section 4(b)(1) of the Act 
provides that the statute shall be inapplicable to working conditions to 
the extent they are subject to another Federal agency's exercise of 
different statutory authority affecting the occupational safety and 
health aspects of those conditions. Therefore, a person may be 
considered an employer covered by the Act, and yet standards issued 
under the Act respecting certain working conditions would not be 
applicable to the extent those conditions were subject to another 
agency's authority.