- A. The employer shall inspect or designate a competent person to inspect frequently for unsafe conditions and practices, defective equipment and materials, and where such conditions are found take appropriate action to correct such conditions immediately.
- B. The employer shall warn all employees of any dangerous condition and permit no one to work in an unsafe place, except for making it safe.
- C. It shall be the duty and responsibility of any employee upon entering the employee's place of employment, to examine carefully such working place and ascertain if the place is safe, if the tools and equipment can be used with safety, and if the work can be performed safely. After such examination, it should be the duty of the employee to make the place, tools, or equipment safe. If this cannot be done, then it becomes the employee's duty to immediately report the unsafe place, tools, equipment, or conditions to the employer.
- D. Employees must comply with all safety rules of their employer and with all the Rules promulgated by UOSH which are applicable to their type of employment.
- E. No person shall remove, displace, bypass, or destroy, or carry away any safety devices or safeguard provided for use in any place of employment, or interfere in any way with the use thereof by other persons, or interfere in any method or process adopted for the protection of employees.
KEY: safety
Date of Last Change: October 18, 2022
Notice of Continuation: June 24, 2022
Authorizing, and Implemented or Interpreted Law: 34A-6-202