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Ex. DUT-MO-009 Standing duty Primary source read

RSMo 292.180

Health and safety of employees to be protected -- director may seal machinery, when

Missouri General Assembly (Revised Statutes of Missouri, chapter 292) · Missouri (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Missouri
Level
State
Authority
Legislative enactment (sections 292.010 to 292.190, health and safety of employees in all establishments)
Issued
1939-08-28 Aug. 28, 1939
Effective
standing (read as 1939-08-28)
End
standing (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
Standing since Aug. 28, 1939 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Workplace rulesStanding duty
Addressees
  • employers; owners or persons in control of any establishment where labor is employed
Character
workplace duty
Collection
Standing duties: Missouri DUT-MO

Operative words

Whenever the director of the inspection section or one of his assistants or deputies, finds that the heating, lighting, ventilation or sanitary arrangements of any establishment where labor is employed is such as to be dangerous to the health or safety of employees therein or thereat, or the means of egress, in case of fire or other disaster, are not sufficient

Penalty

Administrative: correction orders and sealing of machinery by the inspection section; § 292.110 separately requires that all manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile and other establishments 'be so ventilated as to render harmless all impurities, as near as may be'

What it required

The State's inspection section may order correction, and may seal machinery, whenever the sanitary arrangements or ventilation of any establishment where labor is employed are dangerous to the health or safety of employees; the statute thereby makes sanitary conditions safe for employee health a standing condition of operating any Missouri establishment where labor is employed.

Retrieval note

Rendered from the Revisor on Sept. 28, 2026 (488,583 bytes). The Revisor's cross-references on the page point to the food-establishment sanitation statutes (RSMo 196.190 to 196.271) and to the Public Service Commission's health-and-safety powers (RSMo 386.310).

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