Title XVIII — LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

*290.590. Labor organization membership, dues, and fees not required as condition of employment — definitions — violations, penalty — investigation of complaints — inapplicability, when. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean: (1) "Employer", any individual,…

*291.010. Director of section to furnish bond. — Before the director of the inspection section shall enter upon the duties of his office, he shall give a good and sufficient bond to the state of Missouri in the penal sum of twenty thousand dollars, to be approved by the attorney …

291.020. Location of offices — assistant directors — powers and duties. — The principal office of the section shall be kept and maintained in Jefferson City, Missouri. In addition to the principal office in Jefferson City there shall be kept and maintained one branch office in th…

291.030. Employees to be retained and employed under merit system law. — 1. Subject to the provisions of the merit system law, chapter 36, the director of the department of labor and industrial relations shall employ and prescribe the duties and powers of such persons as may be r…

291.040. Salaries and compensation of subordinate officials. — The salaries and compensation of the subordinate officials and employees provided for in section 291.030, shall be paid in like manner and from the same source as the salary of the director of the inspection section, …

291.050. Traveling expenses to be paid. — The director of the inspection section, his deputies, inspectors and other assistants and appointees shall be entitled to their actual traveling expenses when traveling within the state of Missouri on necessary business of the inspection …

291.060. Power and duties of director and deputies. — 1. The director of the inspection section may divide the state into districts, assign one or more deputy inspectors to each district, and may, at his discretion, change or transfer them from one district to another. 2. It shal…

291.065. Rules and regulations, how made, when effective — commission to hold hearings, exceptions. — The director may adopt, amend or rescind rules and regulations necessary to implement any of the provisions of this law; provided, however, that no such rule or regulation shall …

291.070. Statistics assembled. — The inspection section shall collect, assort and systematize statistical details and information relating to the commercial, industrial, social, educational and sanitary conditions of the laboring classes of the state and to the permanent prosperi…

291.080. Information gathered — blanks furnished. — The director of the inspection section is hereby directed to collect any information he may deem necessary to carry out the objects of the department as set forth in section 291.070, and is hereby authorized to furnish suitable …

291.120. Annual report to governor. — The labor and industrial relations commission of Missouri, with the assistance of the director of the inspection section of the department of labor and industrial relations shall, on or before the first day of February of each year, present a…

291.130. Inspection fees — refusal of inspection — penalty. — 1. The owner, superintendent, manager or other person in charge of every establishment inspected as provided by law shall pay to the state director of revenue the following fee for each inspection made in accordance wi…

291.140. Director to investigate serious accidents — recommendations. — The director of the inspection section shall make an investigation of all accidents serious enough to require physical rehabilitation, under the provisions of the state board of rehabilitation, and make safet…

291.150. Director to make annual report to governor. — The director shall also make and submit to the governor on or before the last Monday in January in each year, a report containing a full and complete account of the investigations, together with any other suggestions and reco…

292.010. Notification of occupancy of factory. — Within one month after the occupancy of any factory, workshop or mill, the occupant shall notify the director in writing, of such occupancy. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10199) Prior revisions: 1929 § 13239; 1919 § 6804; 1909 § 7845

292.020. Equipment to be guarded. — The belting, shafting, machines, machinery, gearing and drums in all manufacturing, mechanical and other establishments in this state, when so placed as to be dangerous to persons employed therein or thereabout while engaged in their ordinary d…

292.030. Safety guards. — All power-driven circular saws must be provided with safety guards which raise and lower automatically for various thicknesses of material, and must also be provided with a kickback dog to prevent the board binding on the saw and flying back. Said applia…

292.040. Minor not to clean or work in certain places about machinery. — No minor shall be required to clean any part of the mill, gearing or machinery while it is in motion in such establishment, nor shall any minor under the age of sixteen years be required to work between the …

292.050. Openings to be guarded. — The openings of all hatchways, elevators and wellholes upon every floor of every manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile or public building in this state shall be protected by good and sufficient trapdoors or self-closing hatches or safety catch…

292.060. Fire escapes. — All manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile or other establishments in this state, of two or more stories in height, in which twenty or more persons are employed above the first floor thereof, shall be provided with at least one or more outside iron fire es…

292.070. Doors to open outward, not to be bolted, when. — In all such establishments the main doors, both inside and outside, shall open outwardly, when the director, in writing, so directs; and no outside or inside door of any building wherein labor is employed shall be so locke…

292.080. Explosives not to be placed near egress. — No explosive or inflammable compound shall be used in any establishment in this state where labor is employed, in such place or manner as to obstruct or render hazardous the egress of operatives in case of fire. ­­-------- (RSMo…

292.090. Scaffolding — warning to those near building. — All scaffolds or structures used in or for the erection, repairing or taking down of any kind of building shall be well and safely supported, and of sufficient width, and so secured as to insure the safety of persons workin…

292.110. Ventilation. — All manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile and other establishments in this state shall be so ventilated as to render harmless all impurities, as near as may be. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10192) Prior revisions: 1929 § 13232; 1919 § 6796; 1909 § 7837

292.120. Prevention of dust, smoke and gas. — Every person, firm or corporation using any polishing wheel or machine of any character which generates dust, smoke or poisonous gases in its operation, shall provide each and every such wheel or machine with a hood, which shall be co…

292.130. Director may order fan installed. — In all establishments in this state wherein labor is employed, where any process is carried on by which dust or smoke is generated, the director of the inspection section and his assistants and deputies shall have the power and the aut…

292.140. Overcrowding in factories prohibited. — Where, in the opinion of the director, any establishment wherein labor is employed is so overcrowded with employees as to endanger health or safety, the director of the inspection section, when supported in his opinion by the opini…

292.150. Washrooms for women. — In every factory, workshop or other establishment in this state where girls or women are employed, where unclean work of any kind has to be performed, suitable places shall be provided for such girls or women to wash and dress. ­­-------- (RSMo 193…

292.160. Separate water closets. — Separate water closets shall be provided for the use of employees of either sex in manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile and other establishments in this state where persons of both sexes are employed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10191) Prior revisi…

292.180. Health and safety of employees to be protected — director may seal machinery, when. — Whenever the director of the inspection section or one of his assistants or deputies, finds that the heating, lighting, ventilation or sanitary arrangements of any establishment where l…

292.190. All accidents to be reported. — All accidents in manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile or other establishments or places within this state where labor is employed which prevent the injured person or persons from returning to work within four days after the injury, or whi…

292.200. Offenses. — It shall be unlawful and deemed a violation of sections 292.010 to 292.250 for any person to break, remove, alter or otherwise render ineffective, or to aid or abet or cause the same to be done, any guards installed, or the seal of any inspector affixed in ac…

292.210. Violation a misdemeanor — fines. — Any person or persons, firm or corporation, being the owner, agent, lessee or occupant of any manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile, or other establishment, business or calling in this state to which sections 292.010 to 292.250 apply, o…

292.220. Proceedings against whom when violated by corporation. — When any of the provisions of sections 292.010 to 292.250 are violated by a corporation, proceedings may be had against any of the officers or agents of such corporation who in any way participated in such violatio…

292.230. Prosecution where violation of other laws. — In case of an offense which is a violation of sections 292.010 to 292.250 and of some other law of this state, then the director or assistant director may elect under which law he will prosecute; but where an offense is in vio…

292.240. Fines, where paid. — All fines collected for violation of sections 292.010 to 292.250 shall be paid into the common school fund of the county in which the offense was committed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10203) Prior revisions: 1929 § 13243; 1919 § 6808; 1909 § 7848

292.250. Duty of prosecuting attorney. — It is hereby made the express duty of the prosecuting attorney of each county or city in this state to lend all possible aid in all prosecutions for violation of the provisions of sections 292.010 to 292.250. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10204)…

292.280. Inspection — duty and power of director of inspection section. — The director of the inspection section is hereby required to at least twice a year thoroughly inspect each foundry in this state wherein four or more men are employed, and the said director shall have the p…

292.290. Penalty. — Any corporation, company or person failing to comply with an order made by the director of the inspection section to provide the facilities enumerated in section 292.260 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10210) Prior revisions: 1…

292.300. Employer to provide protection to employees from diseases. — That every employer of labor in this state engaged in carrying on any work, trade or process which may produce any illness or disease peculiar to the work or process carried on, or which subjects the employee t…

292.310. Articles considered dangerous to health. — The carrying on of any process, or manufacture, or labor in this state in which antimony, arsenic, brass, copper, lead, mercury, phosphorus, zinc, their alloys or salts or any poisonous chemicals, minerals, acids, fumes, vapors,…

292.320. Employees to be furnished with clothing — respirators to be used while at work. — Every employer in this state to which sections 292.300 to 292.440 apply shall provide for and place at the disposal of the employees so engaged, and shall maintain in good condition without…

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292.340. Physician to make report to department of health and senior services — penalty for failure. — It is hereby made the duty of any licensed physician who shall make a physical examination of any employee under the provisions of section 292.330, to make within twenty-four ho…

292.350. Duty of director of department of health and senior services. — The director of the department of health and senior services shall, immediately upon receipt of any report from any physician in accordance with the provisions of section 292.340, transmit a copy thereof to …

292.360. Employer to provide dressing rooms, lavatories. — Every employer engaged in carrying on any process or manufacture or labor referred to in section 292.310, shall provide, separate and apart from the workshop in which such employees are engaged, a dressing room and lavato…

292.370. Drinking fountains, ice water, to be provided employees. — No employee shall take or be allowed to take any food or drink of any kind into any room or apartment in which any process or manufacture or labor referred to in section 292.310 is carried on, or in which poisono…

292.380. Workrooms to be kept in sanitary condition. — All employers engaged in carrying on any process or manufacture or labor referred to in section 292.310, shall provide and maintain adequate devices for carrying off all poisonous or injurious fumes from any furnaces which ma…

292.390. Prevention of dust. — When any flues or other apparatus are used in any such process or manufacture or labor referred to in section 292.310, and when such flues or other apparatus are being cleaned or emptied, the employer shall in every case provide and maintain a suffi…

292.400. Hoppers, chutes, to be provided with covering. — All hoppers or chutes or similar devices used in the course of any process or manufacture referred to in section 292.310 shall be provided with a hood or covering, and an adequate and efficient apparatus or other proper de…