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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="5-309" title_number="5" title_name="Occupational Safety and Health" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Regulations">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Board shall propose or recommend occupational safety and health standards that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>are or will be at least as effective in providing safe and healthful employment and places of employment as any standard adopted under the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>will not put an undue burden on interstate commerce when:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a local condition or customized product or part requires the application of an occupational safety and health standard that differs from a federal standard; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>applied to a product or part that is distributed or used in interstate commerce.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Board shall include in each occupational safety and health standard that it proposes or recommends:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a requirement for the use of a label or other appropriate form of warning as necessary to ensure that each employee is apprised of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>each hazard to which the employee is exposed;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>each relevant symptom of exposure;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>emergency treatment appropriate for exposure; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>each proper condition and precaution for safe use or exposure;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>when appropriate in connection with a hazard, a requirement for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>use of suitable protective equipment; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>control of technological procedures; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>as necessary to protect employees, a requirement to measure or monitor exposure of employees to a hazard:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>at appropriate intervals;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>at each appropriate location; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>in an appropriate manner.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>To develop occupational safety and health standards about toxic materials or harmful physical agents, the Board shall propose or recommend occupational safety and health standards that most adequately ensure, to the extent feasible on the basis of the best available evidence, that no employee, including an employee who has regular exposure to toxic materials or harmful physical agents during the working life of the employee will suffer material impairment of health or functional capacity.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>To the extent practicable, the Board shall express each proposed occupational safety and health standard under this subsection in terms of objective criteria and desired performance.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
