{"id":"DUT-MD-010","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Maryland","state":"MD","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Maryland General Assembly (Labor and Employment Article, Title 5, Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Act)","authority":"Md. Const. art. III; 29 U.S.C. § 667 (approved State plan; MOSH covers private-sector and State and local government employers)","instrument":"Statute","title":"Employer\u0027s duty to provide employment and a place of employment that are safe and healthful and free from each recognized hazard, and to comply with MOSH regulations and orders; employee\u0027s duty to comply; posting duty","dateIssued":"","effective":"in force throughout 2020 Q2 to 2021 Q3","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","EMP"],"addressees":["employers; employees (subsection (b)(2))"],"clause":"(a) Each employer shall provide each employee... with employment and a place of employment that are: (1) safe and healthful; and (2) free from each recognized hazard that is causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to the employee. (b) (1) Each employer shall comply with this title, each applicable regulation... and each applicable order... under this title.","enforcement":"Lab. \u0026 Empl. § 5-809: the Commissioner \u0027shall assess a civil penalty\u0027 for a serious violation and \u0027may\u0027 for willful, repeated and other violations (Ex. DUT-MD-011); § 5-810 (2020 text): up to $7,000 per violation and per day of failure to correct, up to $70,000 for willful or repeated violations, minimum $5,000 for willful (Ex. DUT-MD-012)","functions":[],"notes":"Bound every Maryland employer, in every quarter, to a workplace free of the recognized hazard of SARS-CoV-2 transmission as the health authorities defined it, and to comply with every MOSH regulation and order, including the COVID-19 ETS adopted August 27, 2021 (Ex. DUT-MD-016).","sourceUrl":"https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Statute_Web/gle/5-104.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":227313,"grade":"primary","character":"workplace_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-MD","url":"/library/DUT-MD-010","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-MD-010","citation":"Maryland General Assembly (Labor and Employment Article, Title 5, Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Act), Statute (standing) (Ex. DUT-MD-010)","stateName":"Maryland","related":["DUT-MD-016","DUT-MD-011","DUT-MD-012"]}