The Florida Senate

442.008  Division authority.--The division shall:

(1)  Investigate and prescribe what safety devices, safeguards, or other means of protection must be adopted for the prevention of accidents in every employment or place of employment; determine what suitable devices, safeguards, or other means of protection for the prevention of occupational diseases must be adopted or followed in any or all such employments or places of employment; and adopt reasonable rules for the prevention of accidents and the prevention of occupational diseases.

(2)  Ascertain, fix, and order such reasonable standards and rules for the construction, repair, and maintenance of places of employment as shall render them safe. Such rules and standards must be adopted in accordance with chapter 120.

(3)  Assist employers in the development and implementation of employee safety training programs by contracting with professional safety organizations.

(4)  Adopt rules prescribing recordkeeping responsibilities for public sector employers, which may include rules for maintaining a log and summary of occupational injuries, diseases, and illnesses and for producing on request a notice of injury and employee accident investigation records, and rules prescribing a retention schedule for such records.

History.--s. 59, ch. 93-415; s. 2, ch. 98-126.