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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="5-206" title_number="5" title_name="Occupational Safety and Health" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Administration and Enforcement">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “Unit” means the Public Employees’ Safety and Health Unit.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>There is a Public Employees’ Safety and Health Unit in the Division of Labor and Industry.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Commissioner shall be the head of the Unit.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Commissioner shall provide for and maintain a comprehensive and effective program on occupational safety and health for employees of public bodies that is administered and enforced by the Unit.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The program under this section shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>be generally consistent with this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>require each public body to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>provide conditions and places of employment that are safe and healthful;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>develop, conduct, and maintain in each unit of the public body a program of self–inspection that the Commissioner approves and monitors;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>keep and make available to the Commissioner each record that the Commissioner requires under this title and for development of information about occupational accidents, illnesses, and injuries, to allow proper evaluation and necessary corrective action; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>submit each report that the Commissioner requires; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>in addition to a self–inspection required under item (2)(ii) of this subsection, include an inspection program developed, conducted, and maintained by the Unit that otherwise complies with the inspection requirements of § 5–208 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, on or before July 1 each year the Commissioner shall publish online a written report on safety and health in public bodies.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The report under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a summary of the work and findings of the Unit;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a summary of any new regulations adopted during the immediately preceding year;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a summary of trending safety and health issues related to employees of public bodies; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>a list of any:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>hazardous workplace circumstances found at the workplaces of public bodies during the immediately preceding year; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>citations issued to public bodies during the immediately preceding year.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>On or before July 1 each year, the Commissioner shall submit the report required to be published under paragraph (1) of this subsection to the General Assembly, in accordance with § 2–1257 of the State Government Article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>This section does not limit or preclude the Commissioner or an authorized representative of the Commissioner from inspecting a public body in accordance with any other provision under this title.</text>
  </level>
</section>
