{"id":"DUT-WI-007","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Wisconsin","state":"WI","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Wisconsin Legislature (codified statute; administered by the Department of Safety and Professional Services)","authority":"Wis. Stat. ch. 101, subch. I (Regulation of Industry, Buildings and Safety)","instrument":"Wis. Stat. § 101.11 (2019-20), Employer\u0027s duty to furnish safe employment and place (the safe-place statute)","title":"Every employer shall furnish safe employment and a safe place of employment for employees and frequenters, adopt methods and processes reasonably adequate to render them safe, and do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect life, health, safety and welfare; no employer shall permit any employee to be in an unsafe place of employment; owners of places of employment and public buildings bound","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","EMP"],"addressees":["employers (every employer, public and private); owners of places of employment and public buildings; \u0027other person[s]\u0027 who construct, occupy or maintain a place of employment (sub. (2)(a))"],"clause":"Every employer shall furnish employment which shall be safe for the employees therein and shall furnish a place of employment which shall be safe for employees therein and for frequenters thereof... and shall do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, health, safety, and welfare of such employees and frequenters.","enforcement":"§ 101.02(13)(a) (DUT-WI-012): forfeiture of not less than $10 nor more than $100 for each offense for violating the subchapter, failing to perform any duty under it or disobeying a DSPS order; DSPS orders and inspections under § 101.02; the section is the duty enforced in Wisconsin negligence actions by employees and frequenters.","functions":[],"notes":"Every Wisconsin employer, and every owner of a place of employment or public building, owed employees and \u0027frequenters\u0027 (customers, patients, vendors and every other person lawfully on the premises) a place \u0027safe\u0027 within § 101.01(13) and was bound to \u0027do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, health, safety, and welfare\u0027 of both classes; sub. (2)(a) forbids an employer to \u0027require, permit or suffer any employee to go or be in any employment or place of employment which is not safe\u0027 and to \u0027fail or neglect to do every other thing reasonably necessary.\u0027","sourceUrl":"https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/statutes/2019/101.11","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":309717,"grade":"primary","character":"workplace_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-WI","url":"/library/DUT-WI-007","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-WI-007","citation":"Wisconsin Legislature (codified statute; administered by the Department of Safety and Professional Services), Wis. Stat. § 101.11 (2019-20), Employer\u0027s duty to furnish safe employment and place (the safe-place statute) (standing) (Ex. DUT-WI-007)","stateName":"Wisconsin","related":["DUT-WI-016","DUT-WI-015","DUT-WI-012","DUT-WI-018"]}