Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 875 - Labor Services Division › Iowa Occupational Safety and Health › Chapter 3 - Posting, Inspections, Citations and Proposed Penalties › Rule 875-3.1 - Posting of Notice; Availability of the Act, Regulations and Applicable Standards

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
(1) Each
				employer shall post and keep posted a notice or notices informing employees of
				the protections and obligations provided for in the Act, and that for
				assistance and information, including copies of the Act and of specific safety
				and health standards, employees should contact the employer or the department
				of inspections, appeals, and licensing, division of labor services. The notice
				or notices shall be posted by the employer in each establishment in a
				conspicuous place or places where notices to employees are customarily posted.
				Each employer shall take steps to ensure that such notices are not altered,
				defaced or covered by other materials. The notice or notices will be furnished
				by the division of labor services.
Reproductions or facsimiles of the state poster shall
				  constitute compliance with the posting requirements of Iowa Code section
				  88.6(3)
"a"
where such reproductions or facsimiles are at least
				  8½ inches by 14 inches, and the printing size is at least ten point.
				  Whenever the size of the poster increases, the size of the print shall also
				  increase accordingly. The caption or heading on the poster shall be in large
				  type, generally not less than 36 point.
(2) "Establishment" means a single physical
				location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations
				are performed. Where distinctly separate activities are performed at a single
				physical location (such as contract construction activities from the same
				physical location as a lumber yard), each activity shall be treated as a
				separate physical establishment, and a separate notice or notices shall be
				posted in each such establishment. Where employers are engaged in activities
				that are physically dispersed, such as agriculture, construction,
				transportation, communications and electric, gas and sanitary services, the
				notice or notices required by this rule shall be posted at the location to
				which employees report each day. Where employees do not usually work at, or
				report to, a single establishment, such notice or notices shall be posted at
				the location from which the employees operate to carry out their
				activities.
(3) Copies of the Act,
				all regulations published and all applicable safety and health rules are
				available from the division of labor services. If an employer has obtained
				copies of these materials from the division of labor services or the U.S.
				Department of Labor, the employer shall make them available upon request to any
				employee or authorized employee representative for review in the establishment
				where the employee is employed on the same day the request is made or at the
				earliest time mutually convenient to the employee or authorized employee
				representative and the employer.
(4) Any employer failing to comply with the
				provisions of this rule shall be subject to citation and penalty in accordance
				with the provisions of Iowa Code section
				88.14.
This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code section
				  88.6(3)
"a."