The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New Hampshire
- Level
- State
- Authority
- RSA ch. 281-A (Workers' Compensation)
- Effective
- standing
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing (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 (every employer; written program and committee for 15 or more employees)
- Character
- workplace duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: New Hampshire DUT-NH
Operative words
I. Every employer shall provide employees with safe employment. Safe employment includes but is not limited to furnishing personal protective equipment, safety appliances and safeguards; ensuring that such equipment, appliances, and safeguards are used regularly; and adopting work methods and procedures which will protect the life, health, and safety of the employees.
Penalty
RSA 281-A:64, IV: employers subject to paragraph III 'shall be placed on a list for early and periodic workplace inspections by the department's safety inspectors' and 'shall comply with the directives of the department resulting from such inspections'; administrative penalty per the section heading (later paragraphs not read)
What it required
Every employer must provide safe employment, furnish personal protective equipment and adopt protective work methods and procedures; employers of 15 or more must prepare, file and biennially update a written safety program and maintain a joint loss management committee that meets regularly to carry out workplace safety programs (paras. II-III).
Retrieval noteParagraphs I-IV read in the saved exhibit (official page as captured Oct. 18, 2020). This is the State's general workplace-safety duty reaching private employers; RSA ch. 277 reaches public employers only.