{"id":"DUT-RI-012","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Rhode Island","state":"RI","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Rhode Island General Assembly (codified statute administered by the Department of Labor and Training, Division of Occupational Safety)","authority":"R.I. Gen. Laws tit. 28 (Labor and Labor Relations), ch. 20 (Division of Occupational Safety)","instrument":"R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-20-8","title":"Employer\u0027s duties","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","OTHER"],"addressees":["employers (\u0027every employer now or subsequently doing business in this state,\u0027 § 28-20-7, Ex. DUT-RI-015; \u0027Employer\u0027 includes any person, firm or corporation \u0027having one or more persons in his, her, or its employ,\u0027 § 28-20-1(7))"],"clause":"(a) Each employer shall furnish to each of his or her employees a place of employment that is free from recognized safety and health hazards that are causing, or are likely to cause, death or serious physical harm to the employees. (b) Each employer shall comply with occupational safety and health codes promulgated under this chapter.","enforcement":"R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-20-18 (Ex. DUT-RI-013): civil penalties to $10,000 per willful or repeated violation, to $1,000 per serious violation, to $1,000 per day of failure to abate; criminal penalties for willful violations causing death; imminent-danger injunctions on petition of the Attorney General under § 28-20-14 (read, not saved)","functions":[],"notes":"Every employer doing business in Rhode Island must furnish a place of employment free from recognized health hazards likely to cause death or serious physical harm and must comply with the occupational safety and health codes, which § 28-20-24(c) requires to be \u0027at least as effective as federal standards, which, in themselves, shall be adopted\u0027; the State\u0027s general duty is the federal general duty clause in State words.","sourceUrl":"https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE28/28-20/28-20-8.htm","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":59325,"grade":"primary","character":"workplace_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-RI","url":"/library/DUT-RI-012","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-RI-012","citation":"Rhode Island General Assembly (codified statute administered by the Department of Labor and Training, Division of Occupational Safety), R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-20-8 (standing) (Ex. DUT-RI-012)","stateName":"Rhode Island","related":["DUT-AL-009","RI-015","RI-069","RI-071","RI-072","DUT-RI-013"]}