Rules & Regulations of the State of Tennessee
Title 0800 - Labor and Workforce Development
Subtitle 0800-01 - Occupational Safety and Health
Chapter 0800-01-04 - Occupational Safety and Health Inspections, Citations, and Proposed Penalties
Section 0800-01-04-.04 - AUTHORITY FOR INSPECTION

(1) Compliance officers are authorized to enter without delay and at reasonable times any factory, plant, establishment, construction site or other area, workplace or environment where work is performed by an employee of an employer; to inspect and investigate 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; to question privately any employer, owner operator, agent or employee; and to review records required by the Act and regulations published in Chapters 0800-01-01 through 0800-01-11, and other records which are directly related to the purpose of the inspection.

(2) Prior to inspecting areas containing information which is classified by an agency of the United States government in the interest of national security, compliance officers shall have obtained the appropriate security clearance.