The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently granted Massachusetts initial approval for a state-run safety and health plan for state and local government workers. The Massachusetts plan covers an estimated 430,000 state and local government employees only. Private sector and federal government employees in the state remain under federal OSHA jurisdiction.
Massachusetts joins Illinois, Maine, New Jersey, Connecticut, New York and the Virgin Islands as states and territories where administrators have committed to maintaining programs “at least as effective as federal OSHA” to protect state and local government workers.
In addition, there are 22 states and territories with full state plans that also cover state and local government workers in their states.
Federal OSHA law allows states and territories to establish plans that cover only state and local government employees — workers who are excluded from federal coverage.
Once a state plan is approved, OSHA funds up to 50% of the program’s costs.
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