Chapter 48 — LABOR
917 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-4108 Database of registered health care staffing agencies; contents.
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(1) The department shall create a database of health care staffing agencies registered under the Health Care Staffing Agency Registration Act. The department shall make the database accessible to the public on its website. (2) The database shall include, but not be limited to, th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-4109 Rules and regulations.
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The department may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the Health Care Staffing Agency Registration Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-411 Woodworking machinery; safety devices.
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Wood planers, wood shapers, swing saws, equalizing saws, circular heading jointers, wood polishers, buzz planers, lathe bolters, and all similar machinery, shall be equipped with requisite safety appliances.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-412 Safety appliances; codes and standards.
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All safety appliances prescribed by sections 48-401 to 48-424 shall be subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Labor. The commissioner is directed and empowered to formulate, adopt, publish and enforce such safety codes, orders, rules and standards as he deems necessary, i…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-413 Safety codes; adopt, amend, or repeal; Nebraska Safety Code for Building Construction; procedures.
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(1) The Commissioner of Labor shall, from time to time, create advisory committees composed of employers, employees, and such other persons as the commissioner may designate, to advise him in formulating, adopting, amending or repealing such codes, orders, rules and standards. Be…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-414 Safety codes; enforcement; violation; penalty; coverage of sections.
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It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Labor to make or cause to be made periodic inspections of all places of employment for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of such safety codes as have been adopted, and any inspector or employee of the commissioner may order the di…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-415 Safety codes; validity or reasonableness; appeal to Commissioner of Labor.
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Any person in interest, or his duly authorized agent, may file a petition with the Commissioner of Labor for a review of the validity or reasonableness of any code, order, rule or standard made under the provisions of section 48-412. The commissioner shall, as soon as practicable…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-416 Appeal; procedure.
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Any person in interest who is dissatisfied with the decision of the Commissioner of Labor may appeal the decision, and the decision shall be in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-417 Electric plants; safety regulations.
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Signs or indicating lamps shall be placed at all switches in electric light and power plants or other places where high-pressure currents are used, to show whether the current is on or off the circuit. When current is turned off a circuit for repair, the switch shall first be tag…
Transferred to section 48-2512.01.
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Repealed. Laws 2007, LB 265, § 38.
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Repealed. Laws 2007, LB 265, § 38.
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Repealed. Laws 2007, LB 265, § 38.
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Repealed. Laws 2007, LB 265, § 38.
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Repealed. Laws 2007, LB 265, § 38.
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Repealed. Laws 2007, LB 265, § 38.
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Repealed. Laws 2007, LB 265, § 38.
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Repealed. Laws 2007, LB 265, § 38.
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Repealed. Laws 2007, LB 265, § 38.
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Repealed. Laws 2007, LB 265, § 38.
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Repealed. Laws 2007, LB 265, § 38.
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Repealed. Laws 2007, LB 265, § 38.
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Repealed. Laws 1993, LB 45, § 2.
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Repealed. Laws 2007, LB 265, § 38.
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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-419 Steam boilers; repairs; safety regulations.
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Where a number of boilers deliver to a common steam main, they shall be equipped with a shutoff or throttle valve for each boiler to take it out of service for repairs and inspection necessitating the entry therein of workmen. A metal shield shall be constructed covering the hand…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-420 Fire escapes; when required.
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Every factory or other institution, more than two stories in height, shall be equipped with outside fireproof iron stairways, chutes or toboggans, and one automatic fire escape for every fifteen persons working or congregating therein at any time, who, for any reason, are unable …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-421 Accidents; reports; contents.
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Every person operating a plant where machinery is used, shall report in writing to the Department of Labor all fatal accidents within forty-eight hours after their occurrence, and all other accidents within two weeks after their occurrence. Such report shall state fully the cause…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-422 Violations; liability for injuries.
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Every person operating a plant where machinery is used who shall violate any of the provisions of sections 48-401 to 48-424 shall be liable in damages to any person injured, as a result thereof, or to the heirs of any person who shall have died as a result thereof.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-423 Violations; assumption of risk.
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The continuance by any person in the employ of any such operator shall not be deemed an assumption of the risks of such employment.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-424 Health and safety regulations; violations; penalty.
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Every person who shall violate any of the provisions of sections 48-401 to 48-423 shall be guilty of a Class II misdemeanor.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-425 Scaffolds or staging; safety requirements.
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All scaffolds, hoists, cranes, stays, ladders, supports or other mechanical contrivances used in the erection, repairing, alteration, removal or painting of any house, building, bridge, viaduct or other structure, shall be erected and constructed in a safe, suitable and proper ma…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-426 Buildings; construction; supports, floor strength.
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If in any house, building or structure in process of erection or construction, except a private barn, or a private house, the distance between the enclosed walls is more than twenty-four feet in the clear, there shall be built, kept and maintained, proper intermediate supports fo…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-427 Buildings; construction; floor loads; notice.
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The owner of every house, building or structure, except a private barn or a private house, shall affix and display conspicuously on each floor of such building during construction, a placard, stating the load per square foot of floor surface which may, with safety, be applied to …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-428 Scaffolding; platforms; inspection; notice; duty to render safe.
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Whenever it shall come to the notice of the Department of Labor or the local authority in any city or village of this state, charged with the duty of enforcing the building laws, that the scaffolding or the slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, stays, braces, ladders, irons or ropes …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-429 Scaffolding; staging; safety devices.
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Any person employing or directing another to perform labor of any kind in the erecting, altering, repairing or painting of any water pipe, standpipe, tank, smokestack, chimney, tower, steeple, pole, staff, dome or cupola, when the use of any scaffolding, staging, swing, hammock, …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-430 Buildings; floors; safety regulations.
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All contractors and owners, when constructing buildings where the plans and specifications require the floors to be arched between the beams thereof, or where the floors or filling in between the floors are fireproof material or brick work, shall complete the flooring or filling …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-431 Buildings; construction; elevating machines or hoists; safety regulations.
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If elevating machines or hoisting apparatus are used within a building in the course of construction for the purpose of lifting materials to be used in such construction, the contractors or owners shall cause the shafts or openings in each floor to be enclosed or fenced in on all…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-432 Buildings; elevating machines or hoists; signals.
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If elevating machines or hoisting apparatus, operated or controlled by other than hand power, are used in the construction, alteration or removal of any building or other structure, a complete and adequate system of communication by means of signals shall be provided and maintain…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-433 Building plans; duty of architects or draftsmen; violation; penalty.
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All architects or draftsmen in preparing plans, specifications or drawings to be used in the erection, repairing, altering or removing of any building or structure within the terms and provisions of sections 48-425 to 48-435, shall provide in such plans, specifications and drawin…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-434 Violations; penalty; prosecution.
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(1) Any person violating any of the provisions of sections 48-425 to 48-432 shall be guilty of a Class II misdemeanor. (2) All prosecutions for offenses relating to health and safety laws and regulations under sections 48-401 to 48-435 shall be brought in the name of the State of…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-435 Buildings; construction; violations; assumption of risk.
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The continuance by any person in the employ of any such operator shall not be deemed an assumption of the risk of such employment.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-436 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of sections 48-436 to 48-442, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) High voltage means a voltage in excess of six hundred volts, measured between conductors, or measured between the conductor and the ground; and (2) Authorized and qualified persons includes empl…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-437 High voltage lines; prohibited acts; penalty.
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(1) No person, firm, or corporation, or agent of such person, firm, or corporation, shall require or permit any employee, except an authorized and qualified person, to perform and no person, except an authorized and qualified person, shall perform any function within the distance…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-438 High voltage lines; tools, equipment, materials, or buildings; operation, movement, or erection; use; conditions.
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(1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, the operation or erection of any tools, machinery, or equipment, or any part thereof capable of vertical, lateral, or swinging motion, or the handling or storage of any supplies, materials, or apparatus or the mov…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-439 Posting of warning signs.
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The owner, agent or employer responsible for the operation of equipment shall post and maintain in plain view of the operator on each crane, derrick, driver, or similar apparatus, any part of which is capable of vertical, lateral or swinging motion, an approved weather resistant …
Repealed. Laws 2020, LB1016, § 12.
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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-441 Sections, when not applicable.
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Nothing in sections 48-436 to 48-442 shall apply to any authorized or qualified person as defined in section 48-436 or the owner, agent, or employer of such persons in the performance of work or the moving of equipment in the conduct of its business.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-442 Violations; penalty.
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Except as provided in subdivision (2)(b) of section 48-437, any person, firm, or corporation, or any employee thereof, violating any provisions of sections 48-436 to 48-442 shall be guilty of a Class V misdemeanor. Each day's failure to comply with any of the provisions of sectio…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-443 Safety committee; required; membership; employee rights and remedies.
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(1) Every public employer subject to the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act shall establish a safety committee. Such committee shall adopt and maintain an effective written injury prevention program. (2)(a) For public employers subject to collective-bargaining agreements, the est…
Repealed. Laws 2026, LB397, § 6.
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