51.04.160 – Logger safety initiative—Task force—Report.
RCW 51.04.160 Logger safety initiative—Task force—Report. (1) The department shall include one or more representatives of logging industry workers on the logger safety task force. In addition, the department shall reach out to all employers in the logging industry, including those having one or more on the job fatalities in the last five years, and […]
51.04.165 – Information about scholarship opportunities—Costs.
RCW 51.04.165 Information about scholarship opportunities—Costs. The department may provide information about scholarship opportunities offered by nonprofit organizations and available to children and spouses of workers who suffered an injury in the course of employment resulting in death or permanent total disability. The department may, in its sole discretion, provide information about one or more […]
51.04.170 – Firefighter safety—Department must establish best practices.
RCW 51.04.170 Firefighter safety—Department must establish best practices. (1) The department must establish best practices to improve safety and health outcomes for firefighters, including best practices: (a) For a proactive health and safety risk management system consisting of a joint employer and employee governance structure to oversee a continuous process of identification, evaluation, monitoring and […]
51.04.175 – Firefighter safety—Funding authorized for equipment that may be necessary to follow best practices—Eligibility for funding.
RCW 51.04.175 Firefighter safety—Funding authorized for equipment that may be necessary to follow best practices—Eligibility for funding. (1) The director is authorized to provide funding of up to two percent of the premiums paid in the prior year from the risk classes for firefighters as defined in RCW 41.26.030(17) (a) through (c) for the purposes […]
51.04.180 – State of emergency—Safety grant program expenditures—Procedures.
RCW 51.04.180 State of emergency—Safety grant program expenditures—Procedures. (1) In the event of a state of emergency as defined in RCW 43.06.010(12), the director is authorized to expend up to two percent per year of the net premiums earned in the accident fund in the prior fiscal year for the purpose of a safety grant […]
51.04.190 – Transportation network companies.
RCW 51.04.190 Transportation network companies. (Effective January 1, 2023.) (1) The application of this chapter to a transportation network company, as defined in RCW 49.46.300, shall not be indicative of, or considered a factor in determining, the existence of an employer-employee relationship between the transportation network company and driver for purposes of any other rights, […]
51.04.082 – Notices and orders—Mail, personal service, or electronic means.
RCW 51.04.082 Notices and orders—Mail, personal service, or electronic means. Any notice or order required by this title to be mailed to any employer may be served in the manner prescribed by law for personal service of summons and complaint in the commencement of actions in the superior courts of the state, but if the […]
51.04.085 – Transmission of amounts payable.
RCW 51.04.085 Transmission of amounts payable. The department may, at any time, on receipt of written authorization, transmit amounts payable to a claimant, beneficiary, or any supplier of goods or services to the account of such person in a bank or other financial institution regulated by state or federal authority. [ 1977 ex.s. c 323 […]
51.04.090 – Effect of adjudication of applicability.
RCW 51.04.090 Effect of adjudication of applicability. If any employer shall be adjudicated to be outside the lawful scope of this title, the title shall not apply to him or her or his or her worker, or if any worker shall be adjudicated to be outside the lawful scope of this title because of remoteness […]
51.04.100 – Statutes of limitation saved.
RCW 51.04.100 Statutes of limitation saved. If the provisions of this title relative to compensation for injuries to or death of workers become invalid because of any adjudication, or be repealed, the period intervening between the occurrence of an injury or death, not previously compensated for under this title by lump payment or completed monthly […]