Minnesota Administrative Rules

5210.0450 OBJECTION TO INVESTIGATION.

Upon a refusal to permit an occupational safety and health investigator, in the exercise of official duties, to enter without delay and at reasonable times any place of employment or any place therein, to inspect and investigate, to review documents, or to question privately any employer, owner, operator, agent, or employee, or to permit a representative of employees to accompany the investigator during the physical inspection of any place of employment, the investigator shall terminate the investigation or confine the investigation to other areas, conditions, structures, machines, apparatus, devices, equipment, materials, documents, or interviews concerning which no objection is raised. The investigator shall endeavor to ascertain the reason for the refusal, and shall immediately report the refusal and the reason for the refusal to the commissioner.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 182.657

History:

17 SR 1279; 20 SR 2428

Published Electronically:

June 11, 2008