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...shall fail to furnish, provide, and use safety devices and safeguards, or fail to obey and follow orders or to adopt and use methods and processes reasonably adequate to render such employment and place of employment safe. No employer shall fail to do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, health, safety, and welfare of such employees or frequenters. No such employer or other person shall constru...

...lace, damage, destroy, or carry off any safety device or safeguard furnished or provided for use in any employment or place of employment, or interfere in any way with the use thereof by any other person. No employee shall interfere with the use of any method or process adopted for the protection of any employee in such employment or place of employment, or frequenter of such place of employment, or fail to follow an...

...A substantial compliance with the applicable sections of sections 4101.01 to 4101.16, inclusive, and 4121.01 to 4121.29, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is sufficient to give effect to orders, and such orders shall not be declared inoperative, illegal, or void for any omission of a technical nature in respect thereto.

...No employer, employee, or other person shall violate this chapter or Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code, do any act prohibited by such chapters, fail to perform any duty lawfully enjoined, within the time prescribed by the bureau of workers' compensation, for which violation no penalty has been specifically provided, or fail to obey any lawful order given or made by the bureau, or any judgment or decree made by ...

...Every day during which any person, or corporation, or any officer, agent, or employee thereof fails to observe and comply with any order of the bureau of workers' compensation, or to perform any duty enjoined by this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code, constitutes a separate violation of the order or chapters.

...(A) Whoever violates section 4101.15 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars for a first offense; for each subsequent offense such person shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five thousand dollars.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Alien" means an individual who is not a United States citizen or a United States national. (B) "Business day" means a day of the week excluding Saturday, Sunday, and a legal holiday as defined under section 1.14 of the Revised Code. (C) "Employee" means any individual who performs services for a contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker who satisfies both of the following conditio...

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, no nonresidential construction contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker shall fail to verify the employment eligibility of each employee hired to perform work on a nonresidential construction project through the e-verify program. A nonresidential construction contractor shall use e-verify to confirm the identity and legal working status of each employee employ...

...No nonresidential construction contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker shall continue to employ an individual after receiving a notice of final nonconfirmation for that individual from the e-verify program. For purposes of this section, a final nonconfirmation occurs when the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker receives a case result indicating that an employee's employment eligibility could not be confirme...

... national origin. (C) Any local law enforcement officer may assist in investigating a complaint filed under this section. (D) Except as provided in division (I) of this section, if the attorney general conducts an investigation under this section and determines that reasonable evidence exists that a violation of section 4151.02 or 4151.03 of the Revised Code has occurred, the attorney general shallissue a notice ...

... comply with an order that has become enforceable against the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker under division (F) of section 4151.04 of the Revised Code, the attorney general shall bring a civil action against the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker in the court of common pleas of the county where the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker is located or does business or in the court of common ple...

...(A) If a court, pursuant to an action brought under section 4151.05 of the Revised Code, determines that a nonresidential construction contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker has knowingly employed an unauthorized alien, the court shall order each appropriate agency to permanently revoke any license issued by the agency and held by the nonresidential construction contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker specific...

...(A) No state agency shall fail to include in a contract for the construction or renovation of a nonresidential construction project provisions requiring compliance with sections 4151.02 and 4151.03 of the Revised Code. (B) The attorney general shall conduct periodic reviews of state agencies to ensure that state agencies are including within their contracts for the construction or renovation of nonresidential const...

...ode. (D) "The practice of occupational safety" means the preservation of human and material resources through the systematic application of education, chemistry, physics, biological, ergonomic, psychological, physiological, and management principles for anticipating, identifying, and evaluating hazardous systems, conditions, and practices in the workplace and developing, implementing, and administering programs to a...

...ciate Industrial Hygienist," "Certified Safety Professional," or "Associate Safety Professional," or any of the abbreviations "CIH," "CAIH," "CSP," or "ASP," unless the person has been awarded the title by the American board of industrial hygiene or the board of certified safety professionals as specified in section 4777.03 of the Revised Code.

...C) In order to use the title "Certified Safety Professional" or the abbreviation "CSP," a person shall possess a valid, unexpired certification from the board of certified safety professionals. (D) In order to use the title "Associate Safety Professional" or the abbreviation "ASP," a person shall possess a valid, unexpired certification from the board of certified safety professionals.

...ygiene and the practice of occupational safety: (A) A person working as an apprentice under the supervision of a Certified Industrial Hygienist, Certified Associate Industrial Hygienist, Certified Safety Professional, or Associate Safety Professional; (B) A person engaging in the supervised practice of industrial hygiene or the practice of occupational safety through a course of study in that practice; (C) A pers...

...Whoever violates section 4777.02 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Aggrieved person" means a person with duties and obligations under sections 153.64, 3781.27, and 3781.28 to 3781.32 of the Revised Code and divisions (A) and (B) of section 3781.26 of the Revised Code and who is directly involved with or impacted by the alleged compliance failure, as identified in the request for inquiry, of another person with duties and obligations under sections 153....

...e public utilities commission and pay a safety registration not to exceed fifty dollars annually, which the commission may lower if the commission determines lowering the registration to be necessary. The commission shall administer and oversee the registration process. Failure to register shall result in a fine of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars. (B) The commission shall deposit all safety registrat...

...(A) Beginning January 1, 2016, an aggrieved person may request an inquiry with the staff of the public utilities commission seeking the imposition, in accordance with this chapter, of a fine or penalty on the person responsible for the alleged compliance failure described in division (A) of section 4913.01 of the Revised Code. The person shall make the request not later than ninety days after discovering the alleged ...

...If a request for an inquiry is made under section 4913.05 of the Revised Code, the person responsible for the alleged compliance failure may, not later than thirty days after being notified under that section, respond to the request, providing any information that the person considers relevant to the request. The response may include an admission of the compliance failure.

...(A) The staff of the public utilities commission shall conduct an inquiry upon receiving a request made under section 4913.05 of the Revised Code. The inquiry shall be limited to whether there was a compliance failure. (B) During an inquiry conducted under this section, the staff shall examine relevant facts regarding the alleged compliance failure and may request records verification, informal meetings, teleconfere...

...a fine or penalty or as to whether no enforcement action should be taken.

...Revised Code; (2) Determine that no enforcement action should be taken and notify the commission in writing of the determination; (3) Request a hearing under section 4913.19 of the Revised Code. (C) There shall be a majority vote of the full committee, except as provided by section 3781.361 of the Revised Code, with at least one of the commercial-excavator stakeholders voting with the majority, for the committe...