(a) OSHA Area Directors shall be responsible for ensuring that: (1)
Migrant farmworker complaints and referrals are evaluated, and
appropriate action is taken; and (2) migrant farmworker camp inspections
are scheduled promptly.
(b) OSHA Area Directors shall designate OSHA compliance officers to
serve in the capacity of Farm Labor Contact Persons. These Farm Labor
Contact Persons shall be trained in enforcement of the Occupational
Safety and Health Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1590, 29 U.S.C. 651 et seq.) and
all OSHA standards affecting migrant farmworkers. These Farm Labor
Contact Persons shall be designated in OSHA area offices with
responsibility for conducting a significant number of migrant farmworker
camp inspections.
(c) The OSHA Area Directors shall assign the Farm Labor Contact
Person to:
(1) Conduct migrant farmworker camp inspections during periods when
migrant housing facilities are occupied, or when it is reasonably
predictable the facilities will imminently be occupied;
(2) Serve as a technical advisor on migrant farmworker-related
matters;
(3) Train other compliance officers to conduct migrant farmworker
camp inspections; and
(4) Perform other OSHA duties, including duties not related to
migrant farmworker OSHA enforcement.
(d) Regional Administrators for OSHA shall designate a Farm Labor
Regional Coordinator to coordinate migrant farmworker activities. The
Farm Labor Regional Coordinators shall:
(1) Coordinate all migrant farmworker related activity within the
Region's jurisdiction, i.e., enforcement, training, and public
information;
(2) Serve as representatives of the OSHA Regional Administrators on
the Regional Farm Labor Coordinated Enforcement Committee's staff level
work group; and
(3) Perform other OSHA duties.
(e) OSHA shall request State designees of States having approved
occupational safety and health plans and responsibility for conducting a
significant number of migrant farmworker camp inspections to appoint a
State Farm Labor Coordinator. The State Farm Labor Coordinator shall:
(1) Coordinate State OSHA migrant farmworker camp inspections and
other migrant farmworker enforcement activities consistent with the
objectives of this section; and
(2) Represent the State on the Regional Farm Labor Coordinating
Committee's staff level working group.
