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SC Code § 41-14-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Boiler Safety Act|Section 41-14-80. Certification of special inspectors; examination.

 (A) The director shall promulgate regulations for the certification of special inspectors. Before receiving his certificate of competency, each inspector shall satisfactorily pass the examination provided for in Section 41-14-90 or, in lieu of the examination, shall hold a commission or a certificate of competency as an inspector of boilers from a state that has a standard of examination substantially equal to that of this State or possess a commission as an inspector of boilers issued by the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors.  (B) The expenses or salary of special inspectors must not be paid by the State.  (C) The special inspectors may inspect all boilers insured or operated by their respective companies.  HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 59, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on May 18, 2005).
SC Code § 41-14-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Boiler Safety Act|Section 41-14-90. Requirements for examination.

 The examination for chief boiler administrator or special inspectors must be in accordance with the requirements of the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors.  HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 59, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on May 18, 2005).
SC Code § 41-14-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Boiler Safety Act|Section 41-14-100. Discipline of certified inspectors; investigation of complaints and reports of violations; cease and desist orders and injunctions.

 The board shall discipline certified inspectors in the manner authorized by Chapter 1, Title 40. The Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation on behalf of the board shall investigate complaints and reports of violations of this chapter as provided for in Chapter 1, Title 40. In addition to other remedies provided for in this chapter, the board in accordance with Chapter 1, Title 40 may issue a cease and desist order or may petition the Administrative Law Court for equitable relief to enjoin a violation of this chapter.  HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 59, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on May 18, 2005).
SC Code § 41-14-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Boiler Safety Act|Section 41-14-110. Lost or destroyed certificates of competency.

 If a certificate of competency is lost or destroyed, a duplicate certificate of competency must be issued without further examination.  HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 59, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on May 18, 2005).
SC Code § 41-14-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Boiler Safety Act|Section 41-14-130. Correction of deficiencies and temporary cessation of operation orders.

 (A) If a report filed pursuant to this section shows that a boiler fails to comply with the regulations of the department, the department may issue a written order directing that the deficiencies be corrected and setting a date for correction.  (B) The department may issue a written order for the temporary cessation or operation of a boiler because of faulty installation or incorrect repair if the boiler has been determined after inspection to be hazardous or unsafe. Operations must not resume until the conditions are corrected to the satisfaction of the director or his designee.  HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 59, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on May 18, 2005).
SC Code § 41-14-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Boiler Safety Act|Section 41-14-140. Assessment of civil penalties; factors considered; penalty for failure to comply with written order.

 (A) Any person or entity that fails to comply with the provisions of this chapter or the regulations promulgated pursuant to this chapter may be assessed a civil penalty of not more than five thousand dollars for each violation. When considering the assessment of penalties, consideration must be given to the good faith actions of and the history of prior violations by the person or entity as well as any other relevant circumstances.  (B) Any person or entity that fails to timely comply after written notice by the department of a violation is subject to a penalty of up to one hundred dollars per day for such noncompliance.  HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 59, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on May 18, 2005).
SC Code § 41-14-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Boiler Safety Act|Section 41-14-150. Fees.

 A fee not to exceed fifty dollars per facility or per certificate filed with the department in the format prescribed by regulation may be assessed, collected, and adjusted by the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation in accordance with Chapter 1, Title 40.  HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 59, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on May 18, 2005).
SC Code § 41-15-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 15 - Occupational Health And Safety|Section 41-15-80. Employers shall furnish safe place; compliance of employers and employees to certain rules.

 (1) Each employer shall furnish to his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees, and he shall comply with occupational safety and health rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter.  (2) Each employee shall comply with occupational safety and health rules, regulations and orders issued pursuant to this chapter which are applicable to his own actions and conduct.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 40-257.1; 1974 (58) 2328.
SC Code § 41-15-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 15 - Occupational Health And Safety|Section 41-15-90. Employers shall inform employees of protections and obligations; exceptions.

 The Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation or his designee shall issue rules and regulations requiring that employers keep their employees informed of their protections and obligations under this chapter, including the provisions of applicable safety and health regulations, through the posting of notices or other appropriate means. The provisions of Section 41-15-80 and this section shall not apply to employers subject to the provisions of the Federal Railway Safety Act of 1970.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 40-257.2; 1974 (58) 2328; 1993 Act No. 181 Section 977, eff February 1, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1993 amendment substituted "Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation or his designee" for "Commissioner of Labor".
SC Code § 41-15-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 15 - Occupational Health And Safety|Section 41-15-100. Exposure of employees to potentially harmful materials.

 The Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation or his designee shall issue regulations requiring employers to monitor and measure an employee's exposure to potentially toxic materials or harmful physical agents and to maintain accurate records of such employee exposure. Such regulations shall provide employees or their representatives with an opportunity to observe such monitoring or measuring and to have access to the records thereof. Such regulations shall also make appropriate provision for each employee or former employee to have access to such records as will indicate his own exposure to toxic materials or harmful physical agents. Each employer shall promptly notify any employee who has been or is being exposed to toxic material or harmful physical agents in concentrations or at levels which exceed those prescribed by an applicable occupational safety and health standard promulgated under Sections 41-15-210 to 41-15-330, as amended, and shall inform any employee who is being thus exposed of the corrective action being taken.  Where appropriate, such regulations shall also prescribe the type and frequency of medical examinations or other tests which shall be made available, by the employer or at his cost, to employees exposed to such hazards in order to most effectively determine whether the health of such employees is adversely affected by such exposure. The results of the medical examinations or other tests shall be made available to the employer, the Director, and at the request of the employee, to his physician.  In the event such medical examinations or other tests are in the nature of research, such examinations may be furnished at the expense of the Division of Labor. The results of such examinations or tests shall be furnished only to the Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation or his designee and, at the request of the employee, to his physician.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 40-258; 1973 (58) 355; 1993 Act No. 181 Section 977, eff February 1, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1993 amendment substituted "Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation or his designee" for "Commissioner of Labor" and "Division of Labor" for "Department of Labor".
SC Code § 41-15-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 15 - Occupational Health And Safety|Section 41-15-210. Director may promulgate, modify, or revoke rules and regulations.

 The Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation or his designee may promulgate, modify or revoke rules and regulations which will have full force and effect of law upon being properly certified and filed for the purpose of attaining the highest degree of health and safety protection for any and all employees working within the State of South Carolina, whether employed in the public or private sector.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 40-261; 1971 (57) 505; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 977, eff February 1, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1993 amendment substituted "Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation or his designee" for "Commissioner of Labor".
SC Code § 41-15-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 15 - Occupational Health And Safety|Section 41-15-220. Notice and hearing; occupational safety and health standards not subject to Administrative Procedure Act; rebuttable presumptions created by publication of notice.

 (A) Before the promulgation, modification, or revocation of a regulation issued pursuant to this article, the Director shall conduct a public hearing at which all interested persons, including employer and employee representatives, must be provided an opportunity to appear and present their comments orally or written, or both. Notice of the hearing must be published in the State Register and in at least three newspapers, at least one of which has circulation in upper, lower, and middle South Carolina, once a week for three weeks. The notice must contain the date, time, and place of the hearing and a brief description of the proposed regulation.  (B) Occupational safety and health standards promulgated pursuant to this article are not subject to the Administrative Procedures Act. After promulgation the department shall file a notice in the Legislative Council to be published in the State Register. This notice must refer to the federal occupational safety and health administration standards which have been repromulgated under this section and give specific notice of differences between the state and federal standard. Filing and publication of notice in the State Register give notice of the contents of the standard to a person subject to or affected by it.  (C) Publication of the notice creates a rebuttable presumption that the:  (1) standard to which it refers was promulgated under this section;  (2) notice was filed and made available for public inspection at the day and hour stated in it;  (3) copy on file in the Legislative Council is a true copy of the original.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 40-262; 1971 (57) 505; 1973 (58) 358; 1992 Act No. 377, Section 1, eff May 15, 1992.  Effect of Amendment  The 1992 amendment added subsections (B) and (C).
SC Code § 41-15-230 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 15 - Occupational Health And Safety|Section 41-15-230. Effective dates.

 Any rule or regulation promulgated, modified or revoked under this article may contain a provision delaying its effective date for such period (not in excess of ninety days) as the Director determines may be necessary to insure that affected employers and employees will be informed of the existence, modification or revocation of the rule or regulation and of its terms and that employers affected are given an opportunity to familiarize themselves and their employees with the existence of the requirements of the rule or regulation.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 40-263; 1971 (57) 505.
SC Code § 41-15-240 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 15 - Occupational Health And Safety|Section 41-15-240. Temporary permits for variances.

 Any affected employer may apply to the Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation or his designee for a temporary permit granting a variance from a rule or regulation or any provision thereof promulgated under this article. Affected employees shall be given notice by the employer of each such application and shall be furnished an opportunity to participate in any hearing which shall be directed at the request of the employer or by the Director on his own motion. Such temporary permit shall be granted at the discretion of the Director if sufficient evidence establishes that:  (a) He is unable to comply with a rule or regulation by its effective date because of unavailability of professional or technical personnel or of materials and equipment needed to come into compliance with the rule or regulation or because necessary construction or alteration of facilities cannot be completed by the effective date;  (b) He is taking all available steps to safeguard his employees against the hazard covered by the rule or regulation;  (c) He has an effective program for coming into compliance with the rule or regulation as quickly as practicable. Any temporary permit issued under this section shall prescribe the practices, means, methods, operations and processes which the employer must adopt and use while the permit is in effect and state in detail his program for coming into compliance with the rule or regulation.  No temporary permit may be in effect for longer than the period needed by the employer to achieve compliance with the rule or regulation or for one year, whichever is shorter, except that such an order may be renewed not more than twice (1) so long as the requirements of this paragraph are met and (2) if an application for a renewal is filed at least ninety days prior to the expiration date of the order. The form of the application itself for a temporary permit shall be as prescribed by the Director.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 40-264; 1971 (57) 505; 1973 (58) 373; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 977, eff February 1, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1993 amendment in the opening paragraph, substituted "Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation or his designee" for "Commissioner of Labor".
SC Code § 41-15-250 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 15 - Occupational Health And Safety|Section 41-15-250. Permits for permanent variances.

 Any affected employer may apply to the Director for a permit for a permanent variance from a rule or regulation promulgated under this article. Affected employees and their bargaining representative, if any, shall be given notice by the employer of each such application and shall be furnished an opportunity to participate in a hearing. The Director shall issue such permit if he determines on the record, after opportunity for an inspection where applicable and a hearing, that the proponent of a variance has demonstrated by a preponderance of the evidence that the conditions, practices, means, methods, operations or processes used or proposed to be used by an employer will provide employment and places of employment to his employees which are as safe and healthful as those which would prevail if he complied with the rule and regulation. The permit so issued shall prescribe the conditions the employer must maintain and the practices, means, methods, operations and processes which he must adopt and utilize to the extent they differ from the rule or regulation in question. Such a permit may be revoked or modified upon application by an employer, employee or by the Director on his own motion, in the manner prescribed for its issuance under this section at any time after six months from its issuance.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 40-265; 1971 (57) 505; 1973 (58) 373.
SC Code § 41-15-270 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 15 - Occupational Health And Safety|Section 41-15-270. Subpoenas and taking testimony.

 The Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation or his designee may subpoena witnesses, documents, take and preserve testimony, examine witnesses, administer oaths and, upon proper presentation of credentials to the owner, manager or agent of the employer, enter any place, site or area where employment comes under the jurisdiction of the Director and interrogate any person employed therein or connected therewith or the proper officers of a corporation or employer, or he may file a written or printed list of interrogatories and require full and complete answers to them to be returned under oath within fifteen days of the receipt of such list.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 40-267; 1971 (57) 505; 1974 (58) 2328; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 977, eff February 1, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1993 amendment substituted "Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation or his designee" for "Commissioner of Labor".
SC Code § 41-15-280 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 15 - Occupational Health And Safety|Section 41-15-280. Citation for violation; notice in lieu of citation.

 If, upon inspection or investigation, the Director or his authorized representative ascertains that an employer has violated a requirement of any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to this article, he shall with reasonable promptness issue a citation to the employer. Each citation shall be in writing and shall describe with particularity the nature of the violation or violations, including a reference to any statute or rule or regulation alleged to have been violated. The citation shall fix a reasonable time for the abatement of the violation. The Director may prescribe procedures for the issuance of a notice in lieu of a citation with respect to de minimis violations which have no direct or immediate relationship to safety or health. Such notice shall have the effect of a recommendation to the employer; compliance will not be required.  Each citation issued under this section, or a copy or copies thereof, shall be prominently posted, as prescribed in regulations issued by the Director, at or near each place a violation referred to in the citation occurred.  No citation may be issued under this section after the expiration of six months following the occurrence of any violation.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 40-268; 1971 (57) 505; 1973 (58) 371.
SC Code § 41-15-290 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 15 - Occupational Health And Safety|Section 41-15-290. Correction of dangerous conditions or practices; injunctions; mandamus.

 (a) The court of common pleas of the county where the place of employment is located shall have jurisdiction, upon petition of the Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation or his designee, to restrain any conditions or practices in any place of employment which are such that a danger exists which could reasonably be expected to cause death or serious physical harm immediately or before the imminence of such danger can be eliminated through the enforcement procedures provided by law. Any order issued under this section may require such steps to be taken as may be necessary to avoid, correct, or remove such imminent danger and prohibit the employment or presence of any individual in locations or under conditions where such imminent danger exists, except individuals whose presence is necessary to avoid, correct, or remove such imminent danger or to maintain the capacity of a continuous process operation to resume normal operations without a complete cessation of operations, or where a cessation of operations is necessary to permit such to be accomplished in a safe and orderly manner.  (b) Upon the filing of any such petition the court of common pleas shall have jurisdiction to grant such injunctive relief or temporary restraining order pending the outcome of an enforcement proceeding pursuant to the law.  (c) Whenever and as soon as a safety specialist concludes that conditions or practices described in item (a) exist in any place of employment, he shall inform the affected employees and employers of the danger and that he is recommending to the Director that relief be sought.  (d) If the Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation or his designee, or his authorized representative, arbitrarily or capriciously fails to seek relief under this section, any employee who may be injured or aggrieved by reason of such failure, or the representative of such employees, may bring an action against the Director in the court of common pleas for the district in which the imminent danger is alleged to exist, or the employer has its principal office, or an affected employee resides, for a writ of mandamus to compel the Director to seek such an order and for such further relief as may be appropriate.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 40-269; 1971 (57) 505; 1973 (58) 370; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 977, eff February 1, 1994.  Effect of Amendment  The 1993 amendment substituted "Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation or his designee" for "Commissioner of Labor".
SC Code § 41-15-300 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 41 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 15 - Occupational Health And Safety|Section 41-15-300. Notice of penalties.

 If, after an inspection or investigation, the Director issues a citation, he shall within a reasonable time after the termination of such inspection or investigation notify the employer by certified mail of the penalty, if any, assessed under Section 41-15-320.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 40-270; 1971 (57) 505.