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MO Rev Stat § 292.410 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.410 - Duty of director of inspection section.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.410. Duty of director of inspection section. — It shall be the duty of the director of the inspection section to enforce the provisions of sections 292.300 to 292.440 and to prosecute all violations of the same before any associate circuit judge or any court of competent jurisdiction in this state, and for that purpose the director of the inspection section and his assistants are empowered to and shall visit and inspect, at least once a year, and at reasonable hours, and as often as practicable, all places of employment covered by the provisions of sections 292.300 to 292.440. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10222)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13263; 1919 § 6828
MO Rev Stat § 292.420 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.420 - Notices to be posted in rooms — to contain what.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.420. Notices to be posted in rooms — to contain what. — For the purpose of disseminating a general knowledge of the provisions of sections 292.300 to 292.440 and of the dangers to the health of employees in any work or process covered by the provisions of sections 292.300 to 292.440, the employer shall post in a conspicuous place in every room or apartment in which any such work or process is carried on, appropriate notices of the known dangers to the health of any such employees arising from such work or process, and simple instructions as to any known means of avoiding, so far as possible, the injurious consequences thereof, and the director of the inspection section shall have prepared a notice covering the salient features of sections 292.300 to 292.440, and furnish a reasonable number of copies thereof to employers in this state affected by the provisions of sections 292.300 to 292.440, which notice shall be posted by every such employer in a conspicuous place in every room or apartment in such place of employment. The notices required by this section shall be printed on cardboard of suitable character and the type used shall be such as to make them easily legible. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10223)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13264; 1919 § 6829
MO Rev Stat § 292.430 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.430 - Penalty for violation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.430. Penalty for violation. — Any person, firm or corporation who shall, personally or through any agent violate any of the provisions of sections 292.300 to 292.440, or who fails or refuses to comply with any of its requirements, or who obstructs or interferes with any examination or investigation being made by the inspection section in accordance with the provisions of sections 292.300 to 292.440, or any employee who shall violate any of the provisions of sections 292.300 to 292.440, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars or more than two hundred dollars and in each case shall stand committed until such fine and costs are paid, unless otherwise discharged by due process of law. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10224)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13265; 1919 § 6830
MO Rev Stat § 292.440 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.440 - Employer defined.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.440. Employer defined. — In sections 292.300 to 292.440, unless the context otherwise requires, "employer" includes persons, partnerships and corporations. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10225)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13266; 1919 § 6831
MO Rev Stat § 292.450 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.450 - Applicability of sections 292.450 to 292.540.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.450. Applicability of sections 292.450 to 292.540. — The provisions of sections 292.450 to 292.540 shall apply only to cities that now have or may hereafter have a population of fifty thousand or more inhabitants. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10234)  Prior revision: 1929 § 13277
MO Rev Stat § 292.460 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.460 - Outside ladder not to be used, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.460. Outside ladder not to be used, when. — No outside ladder shall be used in connection with the construction, repairing, alteration, removal, or any work whatsoever on any building more than two stories in height, as a stairway. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10227)  Prior revision: 1929 § 13270
MO Rev Stat § 292.470 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.470 - Stairways to be kept lighted when in use.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.470. Stairways to be kept lighted when in use. — All stairways used in connection with the construction, repairing, alteration, removal, or any work whatsoever, on any building more than two stories in height, shall be kept lighted at all times during their use and shall have a handrail running the entire length of said stairway. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10228)  Prior revision: 1929 § 13271
MO Rev Stat § 292.480 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.480 - To provide protection for persons engaged in building.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.480. To provide protection for persons engaged in building. — That all scaffolds, hoists, stays, ladders, supports, or other mechanical contrivances, erected or constructed by any person, firm or corporation, in this state, for the use in the erection, repairing, alteration, painting, tuckpointing, removal or any work whatsoever of any house, building, bridge, viaduct, or other structure, shall be erected and constructed, in a safe, suitable and proper manner, and shall be so erected and constructed, placed and operated, as to give proper and adequate protection to the life and limb of any person or persons, employed or engaged thereof, or passing under or by the same, and in such manner as to prevent the falling of any material that may be used or deposited thereon. Scaffolding or staging, swung or suspended from an overhead support, more than twenty feet from the ground or floor, shall have where practicable a safety rail properly bolted, secured and braced rising at least thirty-four inches above the floor, or main portion of such scaffolding or staging, and extending along the entire length of the outside and ends thereof, and properly attached thereto, and such scaffolding or staging shall be so fastened as to prevent the same from swaying from the building or structure. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10226)  Prior revision: 1929 § 13269
MO Rev Stat § 292.490 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.490 - Must build proper supports — when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.490. Must build proper supports — when. — If in any house, building or structure in process of erection or construction in this state (except a private house, used exclusively as a private residence), the distance between the enclosing walls is more than twenty-four feet, in the clear, there shall be built, kept and maintained, proper intermediate supports for the joists, which supports shall be either brick walls, or iron or steel columns, beams, trusses, or girders, and the floors in all such houses, buildings, or structures, in process of erection and construction, shall be designed and constructed in such manner as to be capable of bearing in all their parts, in addition to the weight of the floor construction, partitions and permanent fixtures, and mechanisms that may be set upon the same, a live load of fifty pounds for every square foot of surface in such floors, and it is hereby made the duty of the owner, lessee, builder or contractor or subcontractor of such house, building or structure, or the superintendent or agent of either, to see that all the provisions of this section are complied with. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10229)  Prior revision: 1929 § 13272
MO Rev Stat § 292.500 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.500 - Duty of contractors and owners.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.500. Duty of contractors and owners. — All contractors and owners when constructing buildings in cities, where the plans and specifications require the floors to be arched between the beams thereof or where the floors or filling in between the floors are fireproof material or brick work, shall complete the flooring or filling in as the building progresses, to not less than within three tiers or beams below that on which the iron work is being erected. If the plans and specifications of such buildings do not require filling in between the beams of floors with brick or fireproof material, all contractors for carpenter work in course of construction shall lay the under flooring thereof or a safe temporary floor on each story as the building progresses to not less than within two stories, or floors below the one to which such building has been erected. Where double floors are not to be used, such owner or contractor shall keep planks over the floor, two stories or floors below where the work is being performed. If the floor beams are of iron or steel the contractor for the iron or steel work of buildings in the course of construction or the owners of such buildings, shall thoroughly plank over the entire tier of iron or steel beams on which the structural iron or steel work is being erected, except such spaces as may be reasonably required for the proper construction of such iron or steel work and the raising and lowering of materials, to be used in the construction of such building, or such spaces as may be designated by the plans and specifications for stairways and elevator shafts. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10231)  Prior revision: 1929 § 13274
MO Rev Stat § 292.510 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.510 - Shafts or openings to be enclosed — railroads excepted.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.510. Shafts or openings to be enclosed — railroads excepted. — If the elevating machines or hoisting apparatus are used within a building in the course of constructing for the purpose of lifting material to be used in such construction, the contractor or owner shall cause the shafts or openings on floor where material is loaded to be completely enclosed on all sides; except opening not over eight feet high and the width of the elevating machines for loading purposes. On the other floors the shafts and all other openings shall be enclosed or fenced in on all sides by a substantial barrier or railing at least three feet in height; provided, however, that nothing in sections 292.450 to 292.540 shall apply to railroad corporations or companies who are using their own employees in the construction or repairing of any structure mentioned herein. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10232)  Prior revision: 1929 § 13275
MO Rev Stat § 292.520 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.520 - Director to enforce provisions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.520. Director to enforce provisions. — The chief officer in any city, town or village charged with the enforcement of local building laws, and the director of the inspection section are hereby charged with enforcing the provisions of sections 292.450 to 292.540; provided, that in all cities in this state, where a local building commissioner is provided for by law, such officer shall be charged with the duty of enforcing the provisions of sections 292.450 to 292.540, and in case of his failure, neglect or refusal so to do, the director of the inspection section shall, pursuant to the terms of sections 292.450 to 292.540, enforce the provisions thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10233)  Prior revision: 1929 § 13276
MO Rev Stat § 292.530 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.530 - Violation — penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.530. Violation — penalty. — Any owner, contractor, subcontractor, foreman or other person, having charge of the erection, construction, repairing, alteration, removal, or painting of any building, bridge, viaduct or other structure within the provisions of sections 292.450 to 292.540, shall comply with all the terms thereof and any such owner, contractor, subcontractor, foreman or other person violating any of the provisions of sections 292.450 to 292.540 shall upon conviction thereof be fined not less than twenty-five dollars or more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not less than three months or more than six months, or both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10235)  Prior revision: 1929 § 13278
MO Rev Stat § 292.540 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.540 - Director to make inspection.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.540. Director to make inspection. — 1. Whenever it shall come to the notice of the director of the inspection section, or the local authority in any city, town or village in this state, charged with the duty of enforcing the building laws, that the scaffolding or the slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, stays, braces, ladders, irons or ropes of any swinging or stationary scaffolding, platforms or other similar device, used in the construction, alteration, repairing, removing, cleaning or painting of buildings, bridges or viaducts, within this state are unsafe or liable to prove dangerous to the life or limb of any person the director of the inspection section, or such local authority or authorities shall immediately cause an inspection to be made of such scaffolding, platform or device, or the slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, stays, braces, ladders, iron or other parts connected therewith.  2. If after examination such scaffolding, platform or device or any of such parts, is found to be dangerous to the life or limb of any person, the director of the inspection section, or such local authority shall at once notify the person responsible for its erection or maintenance, of such fact, and warn him against the use, maintenance or operation thereof, and prohibit the use thereof, and require the same to be altered, and reconstructed so as to avoid such danger. Such notice may be served personally upon the person responsible for its erection or maintenance or by conspicuously affixing it to the scaffolding, platform, or other such device, or the part thereof declared to be unsafe. After such notice has been so served or affixed, the person responsible thereof shall cease using and immediately remove such scaffolding, platform or other device, or part thereof, and alter or strengthen it in such manner as to render it safe.  3. The director of the inspection section, or any of his deputies, or such local authority, whose duty it is, under the terms of sections 292.450 to 292.540, to examine or test any scaffolding, platform or other similar device, or part thereof, required to be erected and maintained by this section, shall have free access at all reasonable hours, to any building, or structures, or premises containing such scaffolding, platform or other similar device, or parts thereof, or where they may be in use.  4. All swinging and stationary scaffolding, platforms, and other devices shall be so constructed as to bear four times the maximum weight required to be depended therein, or placed thereon, when in use, and such swinging scaffolding, platform or other device, shall not be so overloaded or overcrowded as to render the same unsafe or dangerous. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10230)  Prior revision: 1929 § 13273
MO Rev Stat § 292.560 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.560 - Sale of tenement-made articles prohibited.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.560. Sale of tenement-made articles prohibited. — No person, firm or corporation shall knowingly sell or expose for sale any of the articles mentioned herein when such articles were made in violation of sections 292.550 to 292.570; and the director of the inspection section, his deputy or any officer appointed to enforce the provisions of sections 292.550 to 292.570, who shall find any such articles made in violation of the provisions of sections 292.550 to 292.570, or who shall find that the articles herein mentioned are made under unclean or unhealthy conditions, shall conspicuously affix thereto a label containing the words "tenement made" or "made under unhealthy conditions", as the case may be, printed in plain letters on a tag not less than two inches in length, and it shall be unlawful to remove such tag except by the permission of the director of the inspection section or the officer under whose direction such label was affixed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10237)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13280; 1919 § 6835; 1909 § 7854
MO Rev Stat § 292.570 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.570 - Penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   292.570. Penalty. — Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the manufacture or sale of the articles herein mentioned who shall violate or who shall fail to comply with the provisions of sections 292.550 to 292.570, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10238)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 13281; 1919 § 6836; 1909 § 7855
MO Rev Stat § 292.600 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.600 - Definitions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1993   292.600. Definitions. — As used in sections 292.600 to 292.625, the following terms mean:  (1) "Department", the state department of public safety;  (2) "District or local emergency planning committee", a committee established by the Missouri emergency response commission and may include one or more counties or cities in Missouri;  (3) "Employer", a person engaged in business and including the state and any political subdivision thereof;  (4) "Hazardous substance", any substance which is:  (a) Listed in Title III, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know, of the federal Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, Public Law 99-499; or  (b) A pesticide for which a registration has been cancelled or suspended under the provisions of section 281.260 or the federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act of 1972, Public Law 92-516, as amended; or  (c) An extremely hazardous substance or hazardous chemical as defined in Title III, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know, as enacted under the federal Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, Public Law 99-499; and which an employer stores, uses or produces, but shall not include any substance which is a food or drug as defined in the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C., Section 321, et seq.; packaged for distribution to, and used by, the general public, including any product used by an employer in the same form, approximate amount, concentration, and manner as it is sold to the consumer; present in a physical state, volume, or concentration for which there is no valid and substantial evidence that a significant risk to human health may occur from exposure; used in a laboratory for experimentation, research, development or testing by or under the direct supervision of a technically qualified individual, provided that the toxic substance or mixture is not produced in the laboratory for commercial purposes;  (5) "Person", one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, business trusts, legal representatives or any organized group of persons. ­­-------- (L. 1985 H.B. 507 & 139 § 1, A.L. 1987 H.B. 655, A.L. 1988 S.B. 765, A.L. 1993 H.B. 550)
MO Rev Stat § 292.607 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.607 - Chemical emergency preparedness fund established — reversion to general revenue, prohibited.

Effective - 28 Aug 1989   292.607. Chemical emergency preparedness fund established — reversion to general revenue, prohibited. — 1. The "Chemical Emergency Preparedness Fund" is hereby established. Funds appropriated under section 292.604, private donations, federal grants, contracts, and other funds provided to the commission and the department for distribution as provided in section 292.604 shall be placed in the chemical emergency preparedness fund. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary, funds in the chemical emergency preparedness fund shall not revert to the general revenue fund. Interest accruing to the fund shall be part of the fund.  2. The chemical emergency preparedness fund shall, upon appropriation, be used to implement the provisions of sections 292.600 to 292.625. ­­-------- (L. 1989 H.B. 77, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 292.610 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees|Section 292.610 - Employer's trade secrets, department to protect — disclosure of by public employees and officers, penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988   292.610. Employer's trade secrets, department to protect — disclosure of by public employees and officers, penalty. — 1. Trade secret claims by an employer shall be made to the department and subject to the same protection as and treated in a manner similar to and authorized by Title III, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know, of the federal Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, Public Law 99-499.  2. No officer, employee, or agent of any state or municipal department, agency, commission members, members and employees of district and local emergency planning committees, or authority shall disclose to anyone in any manner any record or portions thereof protected pursuant to the provisions of sections 292.600 to 292.625 and Title III, Emergency Response and Community Right-to-Know, of the federal Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, Public Law 99-499, which are within his custody or knowledge for as long as such record or portions thereof shall be so exempted or until a final judicial denial of such exemption is rendered. Any person who violates any provision of this section commits the crime of misuse of official information and may be punished as provided in section 576.050. ­­-------- (L. 1985 H.B. 507 & 139 § 3, A.L. 1988 S.B. 765)