The Florida Senate

442.0105  Employers whose employees have a high frequency of work-related injuries.--The division shall develop a means by which it can identify individual employers whose employees have a high frequency or severity of work-related injuries. The division shall carry out safety inspections of the facilities and operations of these employers in order to assist them in reducing the frequency and severity of work-related injuries. The division shall develop safety and health programs for those employers. Carriers shall distribute these safety and health programs to the employers so identified by the division. Those employers identified by the division as having a high frequency or severity of work-related injuries shall implement a division-developed safety and health program. The division shall carry out safety inspections of those employers so identified to ensure compliance with the safety and health program and to assist such employers in reducing the number of work-related injuries. The division may not assess penalties as the result of such inspections, except as provided by s. 442.013. Copies of any report made as the result of such an inspection must be provided to the employer and its carrier. Employers may submit their own safety and health programs to the division for approval in lieu of using the division-developed safety and health program. The division must promptly review the program submitted and approve or disapprove it. Upon approval by the division, the program must be implemented by the employer. If the program is not approved or if a program is not submitted, the employer must implement the division-developed program. The division shall adopt rules setting forth the criteria for safety and health programs.

History.--s. 61, ch. 93-415.