The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New Jersey
- Level
- State
- Authority
- L.1965, c. 154 (Worker Health and Safety Act)
- Issued
- 1965-06-19 June 19, 1965
- Effective
- standing (read as 1965-06-19)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since June 19, 1965 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesStanding duty
- Addressees
- employers (every person, corporation, partnership or other entity engaging the services of an employee, 34:6A-2(h))
- Character
- workplace duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: New Jersey DUT-NJ
Operative words
Every employer shall furnish a place of employment which shall be reasonably safe and healthful for employees. Every employer shall install, maintain and use such employee protective devices and safeguards including methods of sanitation and hygiene... as are reasonably necessary to protect the life, health and safety of employees, with due regard for the nature of the work required.
Penalty
Enforcement by the Commissioner of Labor with right of entry, inspection and prosecution (34:6A-6); the act's penalty sections were not read in this record
What it required
Every employer in the State had to furnish a reasonably safe and healthful place of employment and to install, maintain and use protective devices and safeguards, 'including methods of sanitation and hygiene,' reasonably necessary to protect employees' life, health and safety.
Retrieval noteMirror of codified text with history line. New Jersey is a federal-OSHA State for private employment (its approved State plan, PEOSH, covers public employers only), so private-sector occupational-safety enforcement during the period rested with federal OSHA under 29 U.S.C. 654(a)(1) (text at Ex. DUT-CT-009); the State statute states the same duty in the State's own words and remains codified.