{"id":"DUT-OH-014","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Ohio","state":"OH","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"General Assembly of Ohio (Ohio Revised Code, Chapter 4101)","authority":"Ohio Const. art. II, secs. 1 and 34","instrument":"Statute (effective October 1, 1953, H.B. 1, 100th G.A.)","title":"Duty of employer to furnish safe place of employment","dateIssued":"1953-10-01","effective":"October 1, 1953","end":"standing","startDate":"1953-10-01","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","EMP"],"addressees":["employers; \u0027other person[s]\u0027 who construct, occupy or maintain a place of employment"],"clause":"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.","enforcement":"No criminal penalty in R.C. 4101.99; the statutory standard of care for civil liability and the workers\u0027 compensation system","functions":[],"notes":"Forbade every employer to permit any employee to work in an unsafe place of employment, to \u0027fail to obey and follow orders,\u0027 or to \u0027occupy, or maintain any place of employment that is not safe,\u0027 and required every employer to \u0027do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, health, safety, and welfare of such employees or frequenters.\u0027","sourceUrl":"https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/revised-code/authenticated/41/4101/4101.12/10-1-1953/4101.12-10-1-1953.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":210814,"grade":"primary","character":"workplace_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-OH","url":"/library/DUT-OH-014","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-OH-014","citation":"General Assembly of Ohio (Ohio Revised Code, Chapter 4101), Statute (effective October 1, 1953, H.B. 1, 100th G.A.) (standing) (Ex. DUT-OH-014)","stateName":"Ohio","related":[]}