§ 28-20-11 - Record keeping requirements.
SECTION 28-20-11
§ 28-20-11 Record keeping requirements.– (a) Each employer shall make, keep, preserve, and furnish to the director anyrecords regarding his or her activities relating to this chapter that thedirector, in cooperation with the United States secretary of labor and theUnited States secretary of health, education and welfare, or their successors,may prescribe by regulation as necessary or appropriate for the enforcement ofthis chapter or for developing information regarding the causes and preventionof occupational accidents and illnesses. In order to carry out the provisionsof this subsection, the regulations may include provisions requiring employersto conduct periodic inspections. The director shall also issue regulationsrequiring that employers, through posting of notices or other appropriatemeans, keep their employees informed of their protections and obligations underthis chapter, including the provisions of applicable codes.
(b) The director of labor and training, in cooperation withthe director of health, shall prescribe regulations requiring employers tomaintain accurate records of, and to make periodic reports on, work relateddeaths, injuries, and illnesses other than minor injuries requiring only firstaid treatment and which do not involve medical treatment, loss ofconsciousness, restriction of work or motion, or transfer to another job.
(c) The director of labor and training, in cooperation withthe director of health, shall issue regulations requiring employers to maintainaccurate records of employee exposures to potentially toxic materials orharmful physical agents which are required to be monitored or measured underthe provisions of this chapter and of § 23-1.1-7. Those regulations shallprovide employees or their representatives with an opportunity to observe themonitoring or measuring, and to have access to the records of the monitoring ormeasuring. Those regulations shall also make appropriate provision for eachemployee or former employee to have access to any records that will indicatehis or her own exposure to toxic materials or harmful physical agents. Eachemployer shall promptly notify any employee who has been or is being exposed totoxic materials or harmful physical agents in concentrations or at levels whichexceed those prescribed by an applicable safety or health code promulgatedunder this chapter, and shall inform any employee who is being exposed of thecorrective action being taken.
(d) Any information obtained by the director or any otherstate agency under this chapter shall be obtained with a minimum burden uponemployers, especially those operating small businesses. Unnecessary duplicationof efforts in obtaining information shall be reduced to the maximum extentfeasible.