# Labor and Employment (GLE)

## Title 5. Occupational Safety and Health

### Subtitle 6

#### Section 5-601

(a) The General Assembly finds that:

  (1) exposure to asbestos, a known carcinogenic agent, creates a significant hazard to the health of the people of the State;

  (2) asbestos protective clothing that is used improperly or that is not maintained properly exposes a worker to this hazard;

  (3) protective materials have been developed as substitutes for asbestos; and

  (4) it is in the public interest to protect workers from this hazard by eliminating the use of asbestos protective clothing.

(b)

  (1) A person may not sell in the State any item of new or used asbestos protective clothing.

  (2) An employer may not:

    (i) buy, for use by an employee, any item of new or used asbestos protective clothing;

    (ii) ask or require an employee to use any item of new or used asbestos protective clothing; or

    (iii) keep or otherwise possess any item of new or used asbestos protective clothing at a place of employment.

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Md. Code Ann., Lab. & Empl. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)