{"id":"DUT-NH-011","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"New Hampshire","state":"NH","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"New Hampshire General Court (administered by the Department of Labor)","authority":"RSA ch. 281-A (Workers\u0027 Compensation)","instrument":"RSA 281-A:64","title":"Safety Provisions; Administrative Penalty","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["EMP","DUTY"],"addressees":["employers (every employer; written program and committee for 15 or more employees)"],"clause":"I. Every employer shall provide employees with safe employment. Safe employment includes but is not limited to furnishing personal protective equipment, safety appliances and safeguards; ensuring that such equipment, appliances, and safeguards are used regularly; and adopting work methods and procedures which will protect the life, health, and safety of the employees.","enforcement":"RSA 281-A:64, IV: employers subject to paragraph III \u0027shall be placed on a list for early and periodic workplace inspections by the department\u0027s safety inspectors\u0027 and \u0027shall comply with the directives of the department resulting from such inspections\u0027; administrative penalty per the section heading (later paragraphs not read)","functions":[],"notes":"Every employer must provide safe employment, furnish personal protective equipment and adopt protective work methods and procedures; employers of 15 or more must prepare, file and biennially update a written safety program and maintain a joint loss management committee that meets regularly to carry out workplace safety programs (paras. II-III).","sourceUrl":"http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXIII/281-A/281-A-64.htm","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20201018184551/http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXIII/281-A/281-A-64.htm","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":73994,"grade":"primary","character":"workplace_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-NH","url":"/library/DUT-NH-011","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-NH-011","citation":"New Hampshire General Court (administered by the Department of Labor), RSA 281-A:64 (standing) (Ex. DUT-NH-011)","stateName":"New Hampshire","related":[]}