56 directives · 10 regional offices
What federal OSHA is looking for, region by region
Under federal jurisdiction the standards are the same everywhere. What changes is which hazards an office has decided to go out and inspect for — published as numbered emphasis directives.
Verified vs OSHA sources · 2026-08-09
Most OSHA inspections of a construction site are not responses to a complaint or an accident. They are programmed — the office selects the site from a list built around a Regional or Local Emphasis Program. Each of those programs is a signed directive with a number, an effective date and a stated scope, and it names the hazards and industries the office will go looking for.
That is the honest answer to “why does enforcement feel different in Texas than in Rhode Island?” when 29 CFR is identical in both. Below are the 56 directives currently carried on this site, grouped by the office that issued them. A directive's scope decides which states it reaches, and it is quoted verbatim — an office list is often narrower than the region it sits in, which is exactly where summaries of these programs go wrong.
Boston Regional Office5 programs
Regional Local Emphasis Program for Residential Construction
“This instruction applies to Federal OSHA, Boston Region jurisdiction.”
Residential construction is scheduled for programmed inspection across the whole Boston region, and the directive names the industries it targets by NAICS: 236115 and 236116 for new single-family and multifamily housing, and the 238 specialty trade codes including framing, roofing, siding, masonry and drywall. A residential framing or roofing crew here is not waiting for a complaint to be inspected; it is on a targeting list.
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Regional Local Emphasis Program for Powered Industrial Trucks
“This instruction applies to Boston Region Federal Area and District Office jurisdictions.”
Forklifts have their own programmed-inspection program across the Boston region's federal area and district offices. Operator training and evaluation records under 1910.178(l) are the first thing asked for, and the program runs alongside the region's residential construction and crane programs rather than instead of them.
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Regional Local Emphasis Program Cranes in Construction
“This instruction applies to Federal OSHA, Boston Region jurisdiction.”
Cranes in construction carry a separate regional program here. It matters on scaffold and fall-protection work because a crane on site makes the whole project a candidate for a programmed inspection, and an inspection opened on the crane does not stop at the crane.
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Regional Local Emphasis Program for Noise in the Workplace
“This instruction applies to Federal OSHA, Boston Region jurisdiction.”
Noise carries its own programmed-inspection program across the Boston region. It is the program most likely to put a hearing conservation file and a PPE hazard assessment in front of an inspector in these five states, and it runs alongside the region's residential construction, crane and forklift programs rather than instead of them.
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Local Emphasis Program for the Seafood Processing Industry
“This instruction covers Region I and includes employers under Federal OSHA jurisdiction only.”
Seafood processing is targeted by NAICS 311710, 311711 and 311712, plus 424460 for fish and seafood merchant wholesalers, and the directive names the hazards it goes after: machine guarding, lockout/tagout, confined space, and the ammonia refrigeration systems that run the plant. It records why: exposure to ammonia and cooling system hazards produced three general duty clause violations in the region, one willful serious and two repeat serious, plus a hazard alert letter. Anhydrous ammonia is what ties this to hazard communication as well as to confined-space entry.
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New York Regional Office4 programs
Regional Emphasis Program – Noise Hazards
“This Instruction applies to all Area Offices within the New York City Regional Office.”
Noise is programmed across every area office in the New York region, under a directive effective December 5, 2024. Hearing protection is selected, provided and used under the PPE standard, so a noise inspection is in practice a PPE inspection with a dosimeter attached.
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Regional Emphasis Program – Construction Work Sites – Local Targeting
“This instruction applies to all Region II Area Offices.”
Region II targets construction worksites locally rather than by a single hazard, which means the inspection is scheduled because of where and what the project is, not because a specific violation was reported. The program runs to September 30, 2028. New Jersey and New York both operate State Plans covering public employees only, so private construction in both states sits under this federal program.
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Regional Emphasis Program – Health High Hazards – Top 50
“This instruction applies to all Region II Area Offices.”
Region II targets health hazards by ranking: a top-fifty list drives programmed health inspections across every area office. For an employer in New Jersey or New York, the chemical side of the program (classification, safety data sheets, exposure assessment and respiratory protection) can be the reason an inspector arrives.
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Regional Emphasis Program – Refuse Handlers and Haulers
“This instruction applies to all Region II Area Offices.”
Refuse handling and hauling is programmed across every Region II area office. It reaches hazardous energy control because the injuries it targets come from compaction and baling equipment (packer blades and balers that must be locked out before anyone clears a jam), and it reaches protective equipment through the hazard assessment that waste handling calls for.
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Philadelphia Regional Office6 programs
Regional Emphasis Program for Fall Hazards in the Construction Industry
“This Instruction applies to all Area Offices in Region III.”
Fall hazards are the named target across every area office in Region III, and the directive says why in its own background: the Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded 393 deaths from falls to a lower level in construction in 2021, up from 321 in 2018. The program runs to September 30, 2028. A fall-protection citation in this region is more likely to come from a scheduled inspection than from a complaint.
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Regional Emphasis Program for Demolition Activities and Gut Rehabilitation
“This Instruction applies to all worksites located within the jurisdiction of the Region III, Philadelphia, Charleston, Wilkes-Barre, Erie, Allentown, Baltimore/Washington, Harrisburg, and Pittsburgh Area Offices.”
Demolition and gut rehabilitation carry their own programmed-inspection program, aimed at the destruction and renovation of fixed buildings and structures. The area offices are named individually (Philadelphia, Charleston, Wilkes-Barre, Erie, Allentown, Baltimore/Washington, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh), so the reach is Pennsylvania, West Virginia and the District through the Baltimore/Washington office.
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Regional Emphasis Program for High Level Noise
“This Instruction applies to all Federal Area Offices in Region 3.”
High-level noise is programmed across every federal area office in Region III. Together with the region's fall-hazard program, it covers every federal area office serving the District, Delaware, Pennsylvania and West Virginia: one directive on the construction side, one on the health side.
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Local Emphasis Program for Health Hazards in Metal Fabrication
“This Instruction applies to the Pittsburgh Area Office.”
Health hazards in metal fabrication are targeted through one office only: Pittsburgh. It is a good example of how narrow a local emphasis program can be: the same work in Philadelphia or Allentown is not inside this program, and a contractor should check the office rather than the state.
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Regional Emphasis Program for the Oil and Gas Service Industry
“This Instruction applies to the Erie, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and Charleston, West Virginia Area Offices.”
Oil and gas service work is programmed through five named offices: Erie, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania, and Charleston in West Virginia. Well-site service work brings hazard communication, permit-required confined spaces and hazardous energy control into one inspection, which is why the same program appears against all three standards.
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Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for Warehousing Operations
“This instruction also applies where powered industrial trucks are used in other warehousing, storage, and distribution yard operations not in a targeted NAICS code.”
Region III programs warehousing by NAICS (424410, 424470, 424490 and 424810 on the wholesale side, 493110 and 493120 for general and refrigerated warehousing), then widens the net in its own words: it also applies wherever powered industrial trucks are used in warehousing, storage and distribution yard operations outside those codes. A yard with a forklift in it does not escape by having the wrong industry code.
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Atlanta Regional Office6 programs
Regional Emphasis Program for Powered Industrial Trucks
“This instruction applies to all Atlanta Region Area Offices.”
Powered industrial trucks are programmed for inspection across every Atlanta region area office. Worth knowing alongside it: the region's construction LEP, ATL-CPL-04-00-008, is titled simply "Local Emphasis Program for Construction" but applies only to federal-jurisdiction worksites in North Carolina and South Carolina. It does not reach private construction in Florida or Georgia.
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Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for Noise Hazards
“This instruction applies to all Atlanta Region Federal Offices, except State Plan Offices.”
Noise is programmed across the Atlanta region's federal offices, and the directive draws the line itself: it excludes State Plan offices. Florida and Georgia are the region's federal-jurisdiction states for private-sector work, so this is one of the few Atlanta programs that actually reaches them.
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Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for Electrical Hazards
“This instruction applies to all Atlanta Region Federal Offices.”
Electrical hazards are programmed across the Atlanta region's federal offices. It is the directive that reaches hazardous energy control in Florida and Georgia: an electrical inspection examines whether the circuit was actually de-energised and locked, which is a 1910.147 question before it is a Subpart S one.
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Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for Landscaping and Horticultural Services
“This instruction applies to all Atlanta Region Federal Offices.”
Landscaping and horticultural services are programmed across the Atlanta region's federal offices. It reaches the PPE standard because the hazards it targets (chainsaws, chippers, mowers, trimmers and the chemicals applied around them) call for protective equipment selected on a written hazard assessment.
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Regional Emphasis Program (REP) addressing Sanitation and Clean-Up Operations
“This instruction applies to all Atlanta Region Federal Offices.”
Sanitation and clean-up in food and beverage manufacturing (NAICS 311xxx and 3121xx) is programmed across the region's federal offices. Sanitation is where the two standards meet: crews work with caustic and chlorinated cleaning chemicals that need classification, labeling and training, on machinery that has to be locked out before anyone reaches inside it.
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Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for Programmed Maritime Inspections
“This instruction applies to all Atlanta Region Area Offices.”
Maritime work is programmed across the Atlanta region's area offices in Florida and Georgia. Confined spaces are the reason it belongs here: tanks, voids and cofferdams on a vessel are entered under the shipyard competent-person and marine chemist regime rather than under 1910.146, and knowing which rule applies to the space you are about to enter is the first question on a waterfront job.
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Birmingham Regional Office5 programs
Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for Programmed Maritime Inspections
“This instruction applies to Birmingham, Mobile, Jackson and Nashville Area Offices.”
Maritime inspections are programmed through the Mobile office on the Alabama coast and the Jackson office in Mississippi, under a directive effective April 22, 2025. Shipyard work has its own confined-space rules, Part 1915 Subpart B rather than 1910.146, and this program schedules inspections of that work in these two states.
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Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for Powered Industrial Trucks
“This instruction applies to Nashville, Jackson, Birmingham, and Mobile Area Offices.”
Forklifts are scheduled for programmed inspection through the Birmingham and Mobile offices in Alabama and the Jackson office in Mississippi. The directive took effect April 17, 2025, and it sits beside a noise program covering the same offices, so an inspection opened on a truck can widen into hearing conservation.
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Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for Noise Hazards
“This instruction applies to Birmingham, Jackson, and Mobile Area Offices.”
Noise is a named programmed-inspection target through the Birmingham, Jackson and Mobile offices. It reaches personal protective equipment because hearing protection selection and use is what a noise inspection examines first, and it reaches respiratory work because the same operations (grinding, cutting, abrasive blasting) can raise both exposures at once.
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Regional Emphasis Program for the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry
“This Instruction applies to Baton Rouge and Little Rock Area Offices.”
Upstream oil and gas work is programmed for inspection through the Baton Rouge office in Louisiana and the Little Rock office in Arkansas. Well-site work can bring hazard communication, permit-required confined spaces and hazardous energy control into the same inspection.
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Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for Landscaping and Horticultural Services
“This instruction applies to the Birmingham, Mobile, Jackson, and Nashville Area Offices.”
Landscaping and horticultural services are programmed through the Birmingham and Mobile offices in Alabama and the Jackson office in Mississippi, under a directive effective April 17, 2025. With the region's noise and forklift programs, it is one of the Birmingham directives that reach Alabama and Mississippi. The region's construction LEP does not.
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Chicago Regional Office6 programs
Regional Emphasis Program for Powered Industrial Vehicles
“This Notice applies to the jurisdictional areas of the Region V OSHA Area Offices.”
Powered industrial vehicles are programmed across every Region V area office. Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin are the region's federal-jurisdiction states for private-sector work (Illinois operates a State Plan covering public employees only), so a private employer in all three is inside this program.
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Local Emphasis Program for Building Renovation/Rehabilitation and Demolition
“This Notice applies to the Appleton, Naperville, Chicago North, Chicago South, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Madison, Milwaukee, Peoria, Fairview Heights and Toledo Area Offices.”
Reconstruction, renovation, rehabilitation and demolition are scheduled for inspection through twelve named area offices covering Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin. Renovation work is where fall protection, scaffolds and ladders tend to be improvised, and the program exists because that is where the region's inspectors expect to find them improvised.
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Local Emphasis Program for High Rise Building Construction Inspections
“This Notice applies to the Chicago South Area Office and Chicago North Area Office.”
High-rise construction has a programmed-inspection program of its own, and its reach is narrow and specific: the Chicago South and Chicago North area offices. The same work outside those two offices' jurisdiction is not inside this program.
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Regional Emphasis Program for Grain Handling Facilities
“The Notice applies to grain handling facilities within the jurisdiction of all Region V Area OSHA Offices.”
Grain handling is programmed across every Region V area office. It matters here because the grain handling standard, 1910.272, requires an entry permit for bins, silos and tanks unless the employer or its representative is present, and requires dangerous equipment to be locked out before entry, so a grain inspection looks at entry permits and energy control.
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Regional Emphasis Program for Transportation Tank Cleaning Operations
“This Instruction applies to all worksites in Illinois, Ohio, and Wisconsin, and those worksites in Michigan, Minnesota, and Indiana under federal jurisdiction.”
Tank cleaning names its states outright rather than its area offices: all worksites in Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin. It is also the one that puts all three chemical standards in the same inspection: the residues are hazardous chemicals under 1910.1200, the tank is a permit-required confined space, and entry means respiratory protection.
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Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for Exposure to Noise Hazards in the Workplace
“This Instruction applies to all Area Offices in Region V.”
Region V's noise program has been extended rather than replaced: an extension effective May 31, 2026 keeps CPL 04-00-27 in force until December 31, 2026, or until superseded by an updated directive. It covers every area office, which is the whole of Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin for private-sector work.
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Dallas Regional Office7 programs
Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for High Noise in Manufacturing Industries
“This Instruction applies to all Area Offices in the Dallas Region and to worksites in New Mexico that are under Federal jurisdiction.”
High noise in manufacturing is the Dallas region's newest emphasis program, effective July 7, 2026. Hearing protection is selected and used under the PPE standard, and the operations that generate the noise usually generate an airborne exposure too, so a noise inspection can reach the respiratory program as well.
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Regional Emphasis Program for the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry
“This Instruction applies to all worksites in Oklahoma, Texas, and those worksites in New Mexico that are under Federal OSHA jurisdiction.”
Upstream oil and gas is programmed across Oklahoma and Texas. Well-site work brings hazard communication, permit-required confined spaces and hazardous energy control into the same inspection, and this directive is narrower than the region's grain and tank programs, which reach Arkansas and Louisiana as well.
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Regional Emphasis Program for Construction
“This Instruction applies to all worksites in Oklahoma, and Texas, and those worksites in New Mexico that are under Federal OSHA jurisdiction.”
Construction across the whole of Oklahoma and Texas is programmed for inspection, targeting NAICS 236, 237 and 238: building construction, heavy and civil engineering, and the specialty trades. Neither state runs its own OSHA plan, so this directive is the closest thing either has to a state-level construction enforcement policy.
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Regional Emphasis Program for Cranes used in Construction
“This Instruction applies to all worksites in Oklahoma, Texas, and those worksites in New Mexico that are under Federal OSHA jurisdiction.”
Cranes in construction carry a second, separate program covering the same territory. Two programmed-inspection programs over the same worksites means a Texas or Oklahoma project with a crane on it can be selected under either, and an opening conference on one does not preclude the other.
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Regional Emphasis Program for Transportation Tank Cleaning
“This Instruction applies to all worksites in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas, and those worksites in New Mexico that are under Federal Jurisdiction.”
Cleaning transportation tanks is programmed by name across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. It is the single directive that puts all three chemical standards into one inspection: the residue left in the tank is a hazardous chemical the employer must have classified and communicated, the tank itself is a permit-required confined space, and going in means a respiratory protection program with the right cartridge for what was carried.
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Regional Emphasis Program for Grain Handling Facilities
“This Instruction applies to all worksites in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas, and those worksites in New Mexico that are under Federal Jurisdiction.”
Grain handling is programmed by name in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas, the four states the directive's scope lists. The grain handling standard at 1910.272 is what makes this a confined-space and energy-control matter: bin, silo and tank entry needs a permit and an attendant, and the conveyors and augers underneath have to be locked out before anyone goes in.
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Regional Emphasis Program for Fall Hazards in Non-Construction
“This Notice applies to all worksites in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas, and those worksites in New Mexico that are under Federal OSHA jurisdiction.”
This one is worth reading for what it is not. Fall protection outside construction is programmed separately across the same four states, which means a fall in a warehouse, a plant or a yard is judged against the general industry walking-working surfaces rules in Subpart D, not against 1926.501, and the trigger heights, criteria and citation all differ. Knowing which side of that line the work falls on is the whole question when a job mixes construction and maintenance.
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Kansas City Regional Office7 programs
Regional Emphasis Program (REP) on Falls, Scaffolds, and Electrocutions from Overhead Power Lines in Construction
“This instruction applies to Region VII Area Offices.”
The directive states its own weight: the predecessor program "accounted for 44% of all safety inspections, 54% of all construction inspections, and 26% of all inspections" across Region VII in fiscal years 2019 to 2024. It also records that 28% of fatal and catastrophic federal enforcement incidents in the region between October 2018 and June 2024 were in construction. In Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, more than half of all construction inspections come from this one program.
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Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for Powered Industrial Trucks and Other Material or Personnel Handling Motorized Equipment
“This Instruction applies to jurisdictional areas of the OSHA Kansas City Region Area Offices (Omaha, Wichita, Kansas City, and St. Louis).”
The Kansas City program is broader than most: it covers powered industrial trucks and other material or personnel handling motorized equipment, across construction, general industry and maritime. Four area offices are named (Omaha, Wichita, Kansas City and St. Louis), which cover the whole of Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri.
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Kansas Local Emphasis Program for Commercial and Residential Construction
“The Instruction applies to the Wichita Area Office.”
Kansas has a construction program written for it alone, run out of the Wichita area office, covering commercial and residential worksites. It sits on top of the region-wide falls, scaffolds and electrocutions program rather than replacing it, so a Kansas construction site is inside two programmed-inspection programs at once.
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Nebraska Local Emphasis Program for Commercial and Residential Construction
“This Instruction applies to the Omaha Area Office.”
Nebraska has its own commercial and residential construction program through the Omaha area office, identifying worksites for programmed inspection. Like Kansas, Nebraska construction therefore sits under two overlapping programs: the state-specific one and the region-wide falls and scaffolds program.
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Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for Grain Handling Facilities
“This Notice applies to Kansas City Region Federal Area Offices.”
Grain handling is programmed across the Kansas City region's federal area offices (Omaha, Wichita, Kansas City and St. Louis. In three states where grain storage is everywhere, this is the directive that puts bin entry permits, attendants and lockout procedures in front of an inspector without a complaint being filed.
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Kansas Local Emphasis Program (LEP) on Oil and Gas Operations
“This Instruction applies to the State of Kansas.”
Kansas has an oil and gas program written for the state as a whole rather than for an area office. Together with the state's own construction program and the region-wide falls, grain and forklift programs, a Kansas employer can be inside four or five programmed-inspection programs at once depending on what it does.
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Regional Emphasis Program (REP) – Workplaces with Noise Hazards
“This Instruction applies to general industry and construction establishments in industries that commonly have occupational noise hazards within the jurisdiction of all Federal Area Offices in Region VII.”
Region VII's noise program is unusual in naming construction alongside general industry in its own scope, so a Kansas, Missouri or Nebraska jobsite is inside it, not only a plant. Hearing protection is selected, provided and used under the PPE standard, and the operations that generate the noise usually generate an airborne exposure at the same time.
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Denver Regional Office6 programs
Regional Emphasis Program for Roadway Work Zone Activities
“This Instruction applies to all street and highway work zones within each Area Office's jurisdiction within the Denver Region.”
The Denver region targets street and highway work zones by NAICS 237310 (highway, street and bridge construction) to reduce serious injuries and fatalities during work zone activity. For a contractor in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota or South Dakota it means roadway work is selected for inspection on the nature of the site rather than on a reported hazard, and bridge and overpass work brings the fall and scaffold standards in with it.
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Regional Emphasis Program for Grain Handling Facilities
“This Instruction applies to operations with potential hazards in grain handling facilities located within the jurisdiction of each Area Office in the Denver Region.”
Every area office in the Denver region runs a grain handling program. In Colorado, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota it brings bin entry and energy control procedures into programmed inspections at grain handling facilities.
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Regional Emphasis Program for the Oil and Gas Industry
“This Instruction applies to Oil and Gas Industry operations located within the jurisdiction of Federal OSHA Area Offices in the Denver Region.”
The Denver region programs oil and gas operations across every federal area office, which covers the Bakken in North Dakota and the Denver-Julesburg basin in Colorado. Hazard communication, permit-space entry and energy control are the three standards a well-site inspection reaches first.
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Regional Emphasis Program for Powered Industrial Vehicles
“This Instruction applies all area offices within Region VIII's jurisdiction.”
The Denver region programs powered industrial vehicles and other material or personnel handling motorized equipment, and the directive says it covers both construction and general industry. That breadth matters on a jobsite: a rough-terrain telehandler is inside this program the same way a warehouse forklift is.
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Regional Emphasis Program – Noise Induced Hearing Loss
“This Instruction applies to all Area Offices in Region VIII.”
The Denver region names the outcome rather than the exposure: noise-induced hearing loss. It covers every area office in Region VIII, so Colorado, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota are all inside it, and it pairs with the region's silica program on the health side.
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Regional Emphasis Program on Silica in Cut Stone and Slab Handling Operations
“This Notice applies to Cut Stone and Stone Products operations, NAICS code 327991, located within the jurisdiction of each Area Office in Region VIII.”
Respirable crystalline silica in cut stone and slab handling is targeted by NAICS 327991 across every Region VIII area office. An inspection under this program looks at the exposure assessment, the respiratory protection program and the hazard communication for silica.
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San Francisco Regional Office4 programs
Regional Emphasis Program for Programmed Construction Inspections
“This instruction applies to all Area Offices in Region IX.”
Region IX runs a general programmed construction inspection program covering every area office, including marine construction sites. Idaho is one of the few states in this region whose private-sector work is under federal OSHA rather than a state plan, so this directive is what schedules construction inspections there.
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Regional Emphasis Program on Amputations
“This instruction applies to areas of Federal jurisdiction in Region IX in General Industry, Longshoring, Ship Building, Ship Repair, Ship Breaking, Federal Agencies and Federal Installations.”
Amputations are a named programmed-inspection target in areas of federal jurisdiction in Region IX. It reaches hazardous energy control directly, since an amputation inspection examines the energy control procedure, the authorized employees and the machine-specific steps, and it can reach personal protective equipment through guarding and hand-protection findings.
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Regional Emphasis Program for Powered Industrial Vehicles and Warehousing
“This instruction applies to all Area Offices in Region IX.”
Powered industrial vehicles and warehousing are programmed across every Region IX area office. For Idaho it is the forklift-side counterpart to the region's programmed construction inspection program, and operator training and evaluation records under 1910.178(l) are what it asks for first.
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Regional Emphasis Program for Heat Illness
“This Instruction applies to Federal enforcement activities in Region IX.”
Region IX runs a heat illness emphasis program covering federal enforcement across the region, alongside a separate regional policy on heat illness prevention. Idaho is one of the region's federal-jurisdiction states, so outdoor work there is inside a heat-targeted program even though there is no federal heat standard. The citations come through the general duty clause and through the protective equipment and work-practice provisions around it.
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How to use this before a job starts
Find the office that covers where you are building, read its directives, and check the scope sentence against your NAICS code and your actual scope of work. If you fall inside one, a programmed inspection is not bad luck — it is the published plan, and the hazards named in the directive are the ones an inspector arrives already intending to look at. Emphasis programs expire and are renewed, so the effective and expiry dates above matter as much as the subject line.
The twenty-one State Plan states are not on this page: they run their own inspection planning and their own rule text, which is compared standard by standard from the penalties-by-state hub.
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