277:1 Application. – This chapter shall apply to all places of employment in which one or more persons are regularly employed. Source. 1917, 183:1. 1919, 66:1. 1921, 130:1. PL 177:1. RL 215:1. RSA 277:1. 1955, 291:1. 1963, 220:1. 1985, 243:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.
277:1-a Elevator Law. – The provisions of RSA 157-B also apply to all places covered by RSA 277:1. Source. 1967, 310:2, eff. Jan. 1, 1968.
277:1-b Definitions. – In this chapter: I. "Employee" means any person employed to work in a place of employment. Volunteers or auxiliary members of a fire, police department, ambulance service or the state police, whether paid or not paid, shall be deemed to be in the employment of a political subdivision when performing official […]
277:10 Sanitation, Provision for. – Every employer shall provide and maintain reasonable and proper toilet facilities and reasonably sanitary and hygienic conditions for employees. Source. 1917, 183:2. PL 177:6. RL 215:6.
277:11 Safeguards. – Whenever the nature or condition of any such place of employment, or the machinery or other appliances therein, are such as to render work therein or in proximity thereto dangerous to the safety or health of employees, it shall be the duty of the employer to provide and maintain such safeguards, […]
277:12 Interference With. – No person shall remove, displace, damage or carry off any safety device or safeguard furnished and provided for use in any employment or place of employment so as to interfere with the intended use thereof, or interfere in any way with the use thereof by any other person, and no […]
277:13 Inspection. – The labor commissioner shall cause all places of employment subject to this law to be inspected at intervals to be determined by him, for the purpose of determining whether the provisions of this chapter have been complied with and the conditions therein with respect to the safety and health of the […]
277:13-a Petition for Inspection. – Any employee may petition the commissioner to inspect any place of employment in which the employee is employed for the purpose of determining whether the employer has violated any of the provisions of this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter. Upon receipt of such petition, the commissioner shall […]
277:14 Report. – A report of such inspection shall be filed in the office of the commissioner and a copy thereof given the employer. Source. 1917, 183:4. PL 177:10. RL 215:10.
277:15 Entry. – The commissioner, factory inspectors and other assistants of the commissioner shall have the right to enter any such place of employment and to examine the same for the purposes of this chapter. Source. 1917, 183:4. PL 177:11. RL 215:11.
277:15-a Inspections. – In the case of a workplace incident resulting in a serious injury or death involving the state, a state agency, a county, a municipality or municipal agency, a school district, or other public corporation or political subdivision, the commissioner of labor, or his or her designee, shall inspect such place of […]
277:15-b Reports of Death or Serious Injury. – I. Every employer shall report the death of any person in the workplace or on the workplace premises within 8 hours of such occurrence to the commissioner of the department of labor by telephone or electronically, stating as fully as possible the cause of the death […]
277:16 Rulemaking. – I. The commissioner of labor shall adopt such rules, under RSA 541-A, as he deems reasonable and necessary in order to carry out properly the provisions of RSA 277:10 and 277:11. II. Prior to January 1, 1987, the commissioner of labor shall present proposed legislation containing a specific delegation of rulemaking […]
277:17 Modification. – Whenever the commissioner, after any place of employment subject to this chapter shall have been inspected in accordance with RSA 277:13, shall be of the opinion that the special conditions in that place of employment render the standards inadequate or unreasonable, as applied to such place of employment, he may, by […]
277:18 Added Safeguards. – Whenever, after inspection as provided in RSA 277:13, the commissioner shall be of the opinion that compliance with the standards, under the special conditions obtaining in any place of employment, necessitates the use of any safeguard, or the doing of any other act for which the standards adopted by him […]
277:19 Repealed by 1963, 220:6, eff. July 1, 1963. –
277:2 Scaffolding and Other Devices for Use of Employees. – A person employing or directing another to perform labor of any kind in the erection, demolition, repairing, altering, painting, cleaning or pointing of a building or structure shall furnish or erect, or cause to be furnished or erected for the performance of such labor, […]
277:20 Compliance, Time. – Every order made by the commissioner shall fix the time when it shall take effect, and in every case a reasonable time shall be allowed to the employer affected thereby for compliance with the order. Source. 1917, 183:6. PL 177:16. RL 215:16. RSA 277:20. 1985, 243:7, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.
277:21 Notice of Orders. – Notice shall be given by certified mail of every order to those who are required to comply with the order. Notice of any such order of general application may be given by publication in some newspaper having circulation throughout the state. Source. 1917, 183:6. PL 177:17. RL 215:17. RSA […]
277:21-a Consultation. – The commissioner shall provide occupational health and safety services to public and private employers, and shall consult with the commissioner of the department of health and human services relative to the implementation of occupational health unit programs authorized by RSA 125:16-16-d. Source. 1983, 291:1, I; 410:2. 1995, 310:182, eff. Nov. 1, […]
