                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

INSPECTIONS OF WORKPLACE (§ 40.1-49.8)

In order to carry out the purposes of the occupational safety and health laws of
the Commonwealth and any such rules, regulations, or standards adopted in
pursuance of such laws, the Commissioner, 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 order or warrant:

1. 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
domestic service, by an employee of an employer; and

2. 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 materials therein, and to question privately
any such employer, owner, operator, agent, or employee.

HISTORY: 1979, c. 533; 1987, c. 643; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 509, 513.