2010 Idaho Code
TITLE 72 WORKER'S COMPENSATION AND RELATED LAWS -- INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
CHAPTER 7 PROCEDURES
72-720 POWERS OF COMMISSION -- SAFETY.
WORKER’S COMPENSATION AND RELATED LAWS -- INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
CHAPTER 7
PROCEDURES
72-720. Powers of commission -- Safety. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, whenever it receives a written request for an inspection or has written documented information that any employer subject to the commission’s jurisdiction in worker safety matters is employing workers in or about any structure, room or place of employment which is not constructed and maintained in conformity with reasonable standards of construction as shall render it safe, or is employing workers on, or with, tools, equipment or machinery which are not equipped with safety devices, safeguards or other means of protection well adapted to render employees and places of employment safe, the commission is authorized to inspect such places of employment, to compel such employer to cease employing workers in such places, or on, or with, such tools, appliances or machinery, if they are deemed unsafe, and, pursuant to the provisions of chapter 52, title 67, Idaho Code, to adopt reasonable minimum safety standards.
(2) The provisions of this section requiring a written request or written documentation prior to an inspection shall not apply to:
(a) Inspections conducted pursuant to rules promulgated by the commission relating to the logging safety program, boilers and pressure vessels; or
(b) Inspections of buildings owned or maintained by a political subdivision of the state if such political subdivision has not, pursuant to chapter 41, title 39, Idaho Code, adopted applicable building codes and instituted and implemented a code enforcement program; provided however, that inspections by the commission of such buildings shall be conducted on an annual basis only. For purposes of this subsection, "political subdivision" means any governmental unit or special district of the state of Idaho.
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