3 U.S.C. § 425 — Rights and protections under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970; procedures for remedy of violations

(a) Occupational Safety and Health Protections.
(1) Every employing office^* and every covered employee^* must follow section 5 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
(2) For applying that Act here, "employer" means an employing office, and "employee^*" means a covered employee.

(b) Remedy. If subsection (a) is violated, the fix is an order to correct the violation — the same kind of order that would be issued under section 13(a) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.

(c) Procedures.
(1) If an employing office or covered employee asks in writing, the Secretary of Labor may inspect and investigate that workplace, following subsections (a), (d), (e), and (f) of section 8 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
(2) The Secretary of Labor may, following sections 9 and 10 of that Act, issue a citation or notice to the employing office responsible for fixing a violation, or a notice to an employing office the Secretary believes hasn't fixed a violation within the deadline given.
(3) If the Secretary of Labor decides, after issuing a citation or notification, that the violation still hasn't been fixed: the citation and notification become a final order under section 10(b) of that Act if the employer doesn't tell the Secretary of Labor within 15 days (not counting weekends and federal holidays) after getting the notice that it wants to contest it; or, if the employer does give timely notice that it wants to contest, it gets a hearing before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, under section 10(c) of that Act.
(4) An employing office may ask the Secretary of Labor for an order excusing it from a standard applied under this section, following sections 6(b)(6) and 6(d) of that Act.
(5) Anyone — a person or an employing office — unhappy with a final decision from the Review Commission under paragraph (3), or from the Secretary of Labor under paragraph (4), can ask the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to review it, under section 1296 of title 28.
(6) If fixing a violation needs new appropriated money, the fix must happen as soon as possible — but no later than the end of the fiscal year after the one in which the citation was issued, or the correction order became final and can't be appealed further.

(d) Regulations To Implement Section.
(1) The President, or the President's designee, must issue regulations to carry out this section.
(2) These regulations must match the Secretary of Labor's own regulations for the statutory provisions referred to in subsections (a) and (b) — except the President or designee may change them, for good cause explained alongside the new regulation, if the change would work better here; and the President or designee may instead apply regulations implementing section 19 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act — the section covering executive-branch agencies and employees — in place of the matching rule under subsection (a) or (b), if doing so would be equally effective for protecting these rights and would help keep federal law consistent for executive-branch employees.
(3) These regulations must include a way to identify, for each category of violation under subsection (a), which employing office is responsible for fixing it.

(e) Effective Date. Subsections (a) through (c) take effect on whichever comes first: the date regulations issued under subsection (d) take effect, or October 1, 1998.