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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Ohio
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Ohio Const. art. II, secs. 1 and 34
- Issued
- 1953-10-01 Oct. 1, 1953
- Effective
- October 1, 1953 (read as 1953-10-01)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Oct. 1, 1953 (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; 'other person[s]' who construct, occupy or maintain a place of employment
- Character
- workplace duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Ohio DUT-OH
Operative words
No employer shall require, permit, or suffer any employee to go or be in any employment or place of employment which is not safe, and no such employer shall fail to furnish, provide, and use safety devices and safeguards, or fail to obey and follow orders or to adopt and use methods and processes reasonably adequate to render such employment and place of employment safe.
Penalty
No criminal penalty in R.C. 4101.99; the statutory standard of care for civil liability and the workers' compensation system
What it required
Forbade every employer to permit any employee to work in an unsafe place of employment, to 'fail to obey and follow orders,' or to 'occupy, or maintain any place of employment that is not safe,' and required every employer to 'do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, health, safety, and welfare of such employees or frequenters.'
Retrieval noteThe words 'fail to obey and follow orders' make obedience to governmental orders part of the employer's statutory safe-workplace duty in terms.