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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>78189</law_id><section_number>40.1-49.8</section_number><catch_line>Inspections of workplace</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="40.1">Labor and Employment</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3">Protection of Employees</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">Safety Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In <span class="dictionary">order</span> to carry out the purposes of the occupational safety and health <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the Commonwealth and any such rules, regulations, or standards adopted in pursuance of such <span class="dictionary">laws</span>, the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>, upon representing appropriate credentials to the owner, operator, or agent in charge, is authorized, with the consent of the owner, operator, or agent in charge of such workplace as described in subdivision 1, or with an appropriate <span class="dictionary">order</span> or warrant:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> To enter without delay and at reasonable times any factory, plant, establishment, construction site, or other area, workplace, or environment where work is performed, including any place where an individual is engaged to perform <span class="dictionary">domestic service</span>, by an <span class="dictionary">employee</span> of an <span class="dictionary">employer</span>; and <a id="paragraph-280272" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/40.1-49.8/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> To inspect, investigate, and take samples during regular working hours and at other reasonable times, and within reasonable limits and in a reasonable manner, any such place of employment and all pertinent conditions, structures, machines, apparatus, devices, equipment, and <span class="dictionary">materials</span> therein, and to question privately any such <span class="dictionary">employer</span>, owner, operator, agent, or <span class="dictionary">employee</span>. <a id="paragraph-280273" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/40.1-49.8/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1979, c. 533; 1987, c. 643; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 509, 513.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
