MNOSHA Compliance: Resources for all industries

Topic areas

Air contaminants

• Air contaminants – permissible exposure limits (PELs)

Accident investigations

• View fatality and serious-injury accident summaries of investigations

Asbestos

• Building owners' responsibilities for asbestos

AWAIR program

• An employer's guide to developing a workplace accident and injury reduction (AWAIR) program – English version |Spanish version

• AWAIR program for small construction employers – English version | Spanish version

Bloodborne pathogens

• Bloodborne pathogens

Carbon monoxide 

• Carbon-monoxide monitoring

Citations

• Fact sheets:  Most frequently cited standards, federal-fiscal-year 2024:  construction industry; general industry; and overall

Confined-space entries

• MNOSHA has adopted the federal OSHA rule for confined-space entries

COVID-19

• Fact sheet:  Voluntary use of filtering facepiece respirators (N95) for COVID-19

Directives

• MNOSHA directives, alphabetically and by subject

Discrimination

• Fact sheet:  Discrimination prohibited for employees raising safety, health concerns – English | Spanish

Emergency eyewash

• Emergency eyewashes and showers

Expedited informal settlement agreements

• Fact sheet:  Expedited informal settlement agreements (EISAs) – English | Spanish

Fact sheets

• See all Fact sheet documents

Fatal work-injury statistics

• Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI)

Federal OSHA

• Federal OSHA fact sheets and publications, posters and forms

Forms

• Mandatory progress report, modification of abatement date, notice of contest

Grain handling

• Grain-handling information, fatalities and inspections

Hazard communication, employee right-to-know

• Hazard communication, employee right-to-know model program – English version | Spanish version

• HazCom training requirements (presentation)

Injury and illness rates

• Survey of Occupational Injury and Illness (SOII) rates

Inspections

• Who gets inspected?

Lockout/tagout

• Lockout/tagout standards for construction

Newsletter

• Safety Lines, the quarterly newsletter from Minnesota OSHA

Overhead doors

• Fact sheet:  Overhead doors – clarification of Minnesota Rules 5205.0675, subpart 2

Recordkeeping

• Recordkeeping standard

Reports

• Minnesota OSHA reports:  annual report, strategic plan, annual report about state-plan states

Right-to-know, construction sites

• Employee right-to-know on construction sites – English version | Spanish version

Strategic plans

• MNOSHA Compliance:  Strategic management plan, federal-fiscal-years 2024 through 2028

• MNOSHA Workplace Safety Consultation:  Strategic management plan, federal-fiscal-years 2024 through 2028

Videos

• Construction safety

• Logging safety

Workplace violence

• Workplace violence prevention