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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Wisconsin
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Wis. Stat. ch. 101 (2019-20), Regulation of Industry, Buildings and Safety
- 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; employees; owners or persons in control of places of employment and public buildings; 'other person[s]'
- Character
- workplace duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Wisconsin DUT-WI
Operative words
(13) "Safe" or "safety", as applied to an employment or a place of employment or a public building, means such freedom from danger to the life, health, safety or welfare of employees or frequenters, or the public, or tenants, or fire fighters... as the nature of the employment, place of employment, or public building, will reasonably permit.
Penalty
§ 101.02(13)(a): forfeiture $10 to $100 for each offense; department orders and inspections.
What it required
Fixed the content of the safe-place duty as the greatest freedom from danger to employees, frequenters and the public that the nature of the business 'will reasonably permit,' and made every employer, employee, owner or other person who 'fails or refuses to perform any duty specified under this subchapter' or 'fails, neglects or refuses to obey any lawful order given or made by the department' liable to 'forfeit and pay into the state treasury a sum not less than $10 nor more than $100 for each such offense' (§ 101.02(13)(a)).
Retrieval noteThe official 2019-20 chapter PDF (1.1 MB) is saved because the section-page renderings of § 101.02 stopped before sub. (13). The chapter also contains § 101.11 (DUT-WI-007) and § 101.055 (DUT-WI-018).