Maryland Occupational Safety and Health (MOSH) is an organization which works to improve the safety and health of Maryland’s working men and women in both the public and private sector.
It provides consultation services, outreach and educational programs, and sets and enforces standards, as well as encouraging continual process improvement in workplace safety and health. MOSH develops and proposes rules and regulations which are designed to prevent accidents and occupational diseases in every occupation or place of employment in Maryland.
Across the country there are 28 OSHA (Occupational safety and Health) approved State Plans and MOSH is one of these. State Plans are OSHA approved job safety and health programs operated by individual states instead of federal OSHA and MOSH is funded with federal and special funds.
MOSH has jurisdiction over all public and private sector workplaces in Maryland with the exception of federal employees as well as the United States Postal Service; most private sector maritime activities which includes shipyard employment and marine terminals, and military bases which are covered under OSHA jurisdiction.
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