Industry groups estimate there are more than 400 commercial zip lines in the U.S. across 48 states (the exceptions being Michigan and North Dakota) that service more than 70 million rides annually. For ziplines to be safe, they must adhere to stringent requirements and standards for proper design, engineering, construction, operation, and management.
The Occupational Safety and Health Act ("OSH Act") preempts state regulation of occupational safety and health issues for which there is a federal OSHA standard, unless the state's regulations are created under the auspices of an OSHA-approved State Plan. State Plans are required to have standards, and an enforcement program for those standards, that are at least as effective as federal OSHA. The OSH Act allows for State Plans to be more effective than OSHA, and as such, states with OSHA-approved State Plans can adopt standards that provide a greater level of protection to workers covered by the State Plan. Full-coverage State Plans, like CA, MN and WA, can continue to impose equal or lower height restriction for RDS use in both private sector and state and local government workplaces.
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