{"id":"DUT-MO-008","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Missouri","state":"MO","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Missouri General Assembly (Revised Statutes of Missouri, chapter 292, Health and Safety of Employees)","authority":"Legislative enactment (sections 292.300 to 292.440, occupational diseases)","instrument":"RSMo 292.300","title":"Employer to provide protection to employees from diseases","dateIssued":"1939-08-28","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"1939-08-28","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","EMP"],"addressees":["employers (every person, partnership and corporation employing labor in work that exposes employees to the danger of illness or disease incident to the work)"],"clause":"every employer of labor in this state engaged in carrying on any work, trade or process... which subjects the employee to the danger of illness or disease incident to such work, trade or process... shall for the protection of all employees... adopt and provide approved and effective devices, means or methods for the prevention of such industrial or occupational diseases","enforcement":"Enforcement by the Department of Labor\u0027s inspection section under chapter 292 (see § 292.180, Ex. DUT-MO-009); the statute states no separate fine in this section","functions":[],"notes":"Every Missouri employer whose work subjects employees to the danger of illness or disease incident to the work must adopt and provide approved and effective devices, means or methods to prevent that disease; sections 292.300 to 292.440 add the duty to post notices of \u0027the known dangers to the health of any such employees arising from such work or process, and simple instructions as to any known means of avoiding\u0027 them (§ 292.420).","sourceUrl":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=292.300","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":478543,"grade":"primary","character":"workplace_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-MO","url":"/library/DUT-MO-008","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-MO-008","citation":"Missouri General Assembly (Revised Statutes of Missouri, chapter 292, Health and Safety of Employees), RSMo 292.300 (standing) (Ex. DUT-MO-008)","stateName":"Missouri","related":["DUT-AL-009","DUT-MO-009"]}