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...otection are best adapted to render the employees of every employment and place of employment and frequenters of every place of employment safe, and to protect their welfare as required by law or lawful orders; (B) Ascertain and fix reasonable standards and prescribe, modify, and enforce reasonable orders for the adoption of safety devices, safeguards, and other means or methods of protection to be as nearly unifor...

...on jointly shall adopt such manuals. No employee may deviate from manual procedures without authorization of the section chief. (B) Manuals shall set forth the procedure for the assignment and transfer of claims within sections and be designed to provide performance objectives and may require employees to record sufficient data to reasonably measure the efficiency of functions in all sections. The bureau shall per...

...vil service of the state, are full-time employees of the industrial commission, and shall be persons admitted to the practice of law in this state. District hearing officers shall not engage in any other activity that interferes with their full-time employment by the commission during normal working hours. (B) District hearing officers shall have original jurisdiction on all of the following matters: (1) Determinat...

...nitials of commissioners, and delegated employees, and any printed record of the "yes" and "no" vote of a commission member or of a hearing officer on such original is invalid. (2) Written copies of final decisions of district or staff hearing officers or the commission that are mailed to the administrator, employee, employer, and their respective representatives need not contain the signatures of the hearing offic...

...ould entitle them to compensation as an employee as defined in division (A) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, any joint apprenticeship committee, or other sponsoring organization may contract with the bureau of workers' compensation for coverage of those persons under this chapter, while in the performance of the related training activities. The contract shall contain provisions for the determination of premium...

...rnor and shall be made available to all employees, employers, and the general public upon request. As a part of its annual report the bureau shall make a report for the preceding fiscal year of the number of awards made by the commission, a general statement of the causes of accidents leading to the injuries for which awards were made, a general statement of the causes of occupational diseases for which awards were m...

...assistants, agents, representatives, or employees. If an employer fails to keep, preserve, and maintain the records and other information reflecting upon payroll expenditures, fails to make the records and information available for inspection, or fails to furnish to the bureau or any of its assistants, agents, representatives, or employees, full and complete information in reference to expenditures for payroll when t...

...ministrator or to the superior of such employee of the bureau. Notwithstanding the restrictions imposed by this section, the governor, select or standing committees of the general assembly, the auditor of state, the attorney general, or their designees, pursuant to the authority granted in this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code, may examine any records, claim files, or papers in possession of the ...

...t fund for the benefit of employers and employees mentioned in sections 4123.01, 4123.03, and 4123.73 of the Revised Code for the payment of compensation, medical services, examinations, recommendations and determinations, nursing and hospital services, medicine, rehabilitation, death benefits, funeral expenses, and like benefits for loss sustained on account of injury, disease, or death provided for by this chapter,...

...ipant in a learn to earn program is an employee of the department, and not an employee of the entity conducting the training. (C) A learn to earn program participant who suffers an injury or contracts an occupational disease in the course of and arising out of participation in the learn to earn program is entitled to compensation and benefits under this chapter. (D)(1) This chapter is the exclusive remedy for ...

... attributable to service of persons as employees of counties or taxing districts therein, nor shall moneys collected from counties and taxing districts therein be used to pay compensation or other benefits attributable to service of persons as employees of the state.

...ve calendar months for the services of employees under this chapter. Each county auditor and each fiscal officer of a district, district activity, and institution shall calculate on the form it receives from the bureau under division (A) of this section the premium due as its proper contribution to the public insurance fund and issue a warrant in favor of the bureau for the amount due from the county, distric...

...l be allowed under this chapter for any employee injured while participating in a ridesharing arrangement between his place of residence and place of employment or termini near such places. Any injury occurring while an employee is voluntarily participating in a ridesharing arrangement is not considered occurring in the course of employment.

...ls. The administrator, on the form an employee or an individual acting on behalf of the employee files with the administrator or a self-insuring employer to initiate a claim under this chapter or Chapter 4121., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code, shall include a statement that is substantially similar to the following statement in bold font and set apart from all other text in the form: "By signing this f...

...se of rendering the injured or disabled employee financial relief or for the purpose of furthering the injured or disabled employee's rehabilitation, may commute payments of compensation or benefits to one or more lump-sum payments. (B) The administrator shall adopt rules which set forth the policy for awarding lump sum payments. The rules shall: (1) Enumerate the allowable purposes for payments and the condition...

...compensation for an injury to the minor employee, but in the event of the award of a lump sum of compensation to the minor employee, the sum shall be paid to the legally appointed guardian of the minor or in accordance with section 2111.05 of the Revised Code. When it is found upon hearing by the industrial commission that an injury, occupational disease, or death of a minor working in employment which is prohibited...

...hall be liberally construed in favor of employees and the dependents of deceased employees.

...tate. (e) It has fifty or fewer shared employees employed or domiciled in this state on any given day. (D)(1) The administrator, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to require, in addition to the requirement under division (B)(8) of this section, a professional employer organization to provide secu...

...es, workers' compensation premiums, and employee benefits have been paid by the professional employer organization or members of the professional employer organization reporting entity. The bond, letter of credit, or securities required under division (A)(1) of this section shall be held by a depository designated by the administrator and shall secure payment by the professional employer organization or professional...

...ganization shall report any transfer of employees between related professional employer organization entities or professional employer organization reporting entities to the administrator within fourteen calendar days after the date of the transfer on a form prescribed by the administrator. If the professional employer organization is not a self-insuring employer, the professional employer organization or professiona...

... for injury or death of any work-relief employee, wherever occurring. Employees of a noncomplying employer shall receive their compensation and benefits as if the premiums had been paid and the employer shall be liable on the same basis as a noncomplying employer under Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code.

...e Revised Code apply to all work-relief employees who are injured and to the dependents of such as are killed, whether such injury or death occurred prior to May 17, 1935, or subsequent thereto.

... (B) The administrator shall employ the employees necessary to the discharge of its duties and responsibilities under sections 4131.01 to 4131.06 of the Revised Code. The treasurer of state shall pay the salaries and expenses of those employees from the fund created by section 4131.03 of the Revised Code upon warrants authorized and signed pursuant to section 4123.42 of the Revised Code.

...e. (e) It has fifty or fewer worksite employees employed or domiciled in this state on any given day. (D)(1) An alternate employer organization shall provide security in the form of a letter of credit assignable to the Ohio bureau of workers' compensation in an amount necessary to meet the financial obligations of the alternate employer organization pursuant to this chapter and Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Rev...

...es, workers' compensation premiums, and employee benefits have been paid by the alternate employer organization. The letter of credit required under division (D)(1) of section 4133.07 of the Revised Code shall be held by a depository designated by the administrator and shall secure payment by the alternate employer organization of all taxes, wages, benefits, or other entitlements due or otherwise pertaining to worksi...