Most of the regulations set forth by Federal OSHA are adhered to by MNOSHA, but it also has its own set of rules for particular industries, including:

 

MNOSHA Construction

 

• Demolition
• Spray Painting of Building Interiors
• Wire Rope Clips
• Walking, Working Surfaces
• Carbon Monoxide Monitoring
• Cranes, Hoists, and Derricks
• Warning Signs at Construction or Engineering Projects
• Sanitation
• Motorized Self-Propelled Vehicles
• Powered Industrial Trucks
• Servicing Multi-piece and Single Piece Rim Vehicles
• Operation of Mobile Earth-Moving Equipment
• Elevating Work Platform Equipment
• Hazardous Substances
• Harmful Physical Agents
• Infectious Agents
• A Workplace Accident and Injury Reduction (AWAIR) Program

 

MNOSHA General Industry

 

• Personal Protective Equipment
• Walking, Working Surfaces
• Vent Pipe Outlets
• Indoor Ventilation and Temperature in Places of Employment
• Carbon Monoxide Monitoring
• Illumination
• Exit and Emergency Lighting
• Ventilation for Garages
• Window Cleaning
• Machine Guarding
• Hazardous Substances
• Harmful Physical Agents
• Infectious Agents
• Safe Patient Handling
• A Workplace Accident and Injury Reduction (AWAIR) Program

 

MNOSHA undoubtedly regulates the private sector, except for a select number of operations, workers, industries, and employers, such as:

 

• Offshore maritime employment 
• The enforcement of the field sanitation standard, 29 CFR 1928.110, and the enforcement of the temporary labor camps standard, 29 CFR 1910.142, concerning any agricultural establishment where workers are engaged in "agricultural employment" within the meaning of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, 29 U.S.C. 1802(3) – regardless of the number of workers – including workers engaged in hand packing of produce into containers, whether done on the ground, on a moving machine, or in a temporary packing shed, except that Minnesota retains enforcement responsibility over agricultural temporary labor camps for workers engaged in egg, poultry, or red meat production, or the post-harvest processing of agricultural or horticultural commodities
• Any establishment owned or operated by an Indian tribe or an enrolled member of an Indian tribe within an Indian reservation or on lands held in trust by the Federal Government. (The State covers non-Indian businesses on reservations and trust lands)
• Contract employees and contractor-operated facilities engaged in United States Postal Service mail operations
• Employment on land under exclusive federal jurisdiction adjacent to land formerly occupied by the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant. (The land formerly occupied by the plant is under State jurisdiction)
• All working conditions of aircraft cabin crew members onboard aircraft in operation.

 

In addition, any business, operations, workers, contractors, hazardous property, construction property, industrial property, land, and employers who disobey MNOSHA ultimately come under the jurisdiction of Federal OSHA. Federal OSHA takes a more comprehensive view of the state. Other regulatory authorities, such as the Wage-Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor, regulate certain operations, such as sanitation and standards for temporary labor camps.

 

The standards recommended by MNOSHA may also be changed, modified, eliminated, replaced, or revoked by Federal OSHA. As a result, Federal OSHA continues to have jurisdiction over and authority over the OSHA anti-retaliation rule.