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Safety and health — Arizona

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (federal OSHA) generally develops and enforces safety and health standards and methods of enforcement. Federal OSHA specifies the safety requirements that employees must meet and the procedures employers must follow to contest citations for violations of those requirements.

Federal OSHA permits individual states to assert jurisdiction over safety and health issues within their borders, as long as the state plan is approved and certain federal requirements are satisfied. In Arizona, the Industrial Commission of Arizona (Industrial Commission) and its Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health (ADOSH) have the responsibility of administering the federally approved state OSHA plan. The state law and regulations incorporate the federal law and regulations. The state’s administration of its OSHA standards is subject to review by the federal government under the federally approved state plan. In order to maintain an approved state plan to enforce OSHA in Arizona, ADOSH is required to maintain standards that are at least as rigorous as the federal standards. It can adopt standards that are the same as the federal standards or adopt standards that are more stringent than the federal standards, but it cannot adopt standards that are more lenient than the federal...


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