Title 53

NRS 618.205 Division to coordinate activities of state and local agencies. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the Division shall coordinate to the greatest extent practicable the occupational safety and health activities of all state and local agencie…

NRS 618.215 Training programs for Division’s personnel. The Division may institute training programs for the purpose of qualifying personnel to carry out the provisions of this chapter and may make such personnel available for participation in any program or programs of any state…

NRS 618.235 Division to be administered by Department of Business and Industry; review of Administrator’s decisions. 1. The Division must be administered by the Department of Business and Industry. 2. A decision on any question arising under the provisions of this chapter must be…

NRS 618.255 Employees: Qualifications; conditions of employment. 1. The Division may employ such qualified employees as in the opinion of the Administrator are necessary to enforce the provisions of this chapter. 2. Any safety and health representative employed by the Division mu…

NRS 618.257 Sections for Enforcement and for Safety and Health Consultation, Education, Information and Training: Establishment; duties; certain programs and services for small employers. 1. The Administrator shall establish: (a) Within the Division a Section for: (1) Enforcement…

NRS 618.265 Offices of Division. 1. The Division shall maintain its principal office in Carson City, Nevada. 2. The Division shall maintain suboffices at such places as industrial activity warrants. Suboffices may have complete facilities to supervise, regulate and enforce the pr…

NRS 618.285 Duties of Division. The Division shall: 1. Prevent or abate hazards to the safety and health of employees; 2. Develop a program of eliminating or abating hazards; 3. Advise and recommend a program of safety and health applicable to public and state agencies; 4. Instit…

NRS 618.295 Regulations and standards; medical examination for exposure to hazard. 1. The Division shall adopt such regulations as are necessary to provide safe and healthful employment in those employments within its jurisdiction. 2. The Division shall not propose standards or r…

NRS 618.297 Administrator required to adopt regulations to establish measures for employers to monitor air quality and reduce employee exposure to poor air quality from wildfire smoke. 1. The Administrator shall establish by regulation: (a) Measures that an employer must take to …

NRS 618.305 Sources for standards. The Division may consider the following sources in adopting standards under this chapter: 1. American National Standards Institute (ANSI). 2. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). 3. American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). …

NRS 618.315 Authority of Division over working conditions; limitations; safety orders. 1. The Division has authority over working conditions in all places of employment except as limited by subsection 2. 2. The authority of the Division does not extend to working conditions which…

NRS 618.325 Powers of Administrator and representatives; entry and inspection of places of employment. 1. The Administrator and the Administrator’s representatives appointed under this chapter shall act with full power and authority to carry out and enforce the orders, standards …

NRS 618.336 Record and logbook of complaints received from employees: Maintenance; contents; accessibility; retention. 1. The Division shall maintain a record of all oral complaints it receives under this chapter from employees or representatives of employees. The record must inc…

NRS 618.341 Records of Division: Public inspection; copying; confidentiality; exception. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the public may inspect all records of the Division which contain information regarding: (a) An oral or written complaint filed by an employee …

NRS 618.345 Programs for collection, compilation and analysis of statistics. 1. The Division shall develop and maintain an effective program of collection, compilation and analysis of occupational safety and health statistics. This program may, at the discretion of the Division, …

NRS 618.347 Report concerning issuance of certain citations by Division. The Division shall submit a written report quarterly to the Advisory Council of the Division which lists each citation issued by the Division for a violation of NRS 618.375 during that quarter and the circum…

NRS 618.350 Duties of Division regarding occupational safety and health. The Division shall: 1. Develop a program of eliminating or abating hazards; 2. Advise and recommend a program of occupational safety and health applicable to public and state agencies; and 3. Provide for saf…

NRS 618.353 Duties of Division regarding training and education of employers and employees. 1. The Division, after consultation with cooperating state agencies, shall: (a) Conduct directly or by grants or contracts: (1) Educational programs to provide an adequate supply of qualif…

NRS 618.357 Duty of Division to develop and implement process to determine whether criminal history disqualifies a person from obtaining license or certification pursuant to this chapter; imposition and waiver of fees; quarterly reports. 1. The Division shall develop and implemen…

NRS 618.365 Scope of chapter; limited disclosure of information of Division; protection of trade secrets. 1. This chapter does not supersede or in any manner affect the Nevada Industrial Insurance Act or the Nevada Occupational Diseases Act or enlarge, diminish or affect in any o…

NRS 618.370 Access by employees, former employees and their representatives to records of employers; charge for copies. 1. Employees, former employees and representatives of employees or former employees are entitled to access to any records in the possession of their employers o…

NRS 618.375 Duties of employers. Every employer shall: 1. Furnish employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his or her employees. 2. Furnish and use such safety devices and…

NRS 618.376 Employer to provide employee with rights and responsibilities to promote safety in workplace; regulations. 1. Every employer shall, upon hiring an employee, provide the employee with a document or videotape setting forth the rights and responsibilities of employers an…

NRS 618.378 Employer required to report certain accidents and motor vehicle crashes occurring in the course of employment; investigation of accident or crash by Division; insurer to report claimed or reported injuries and diseases; compliance with federal recordkeeping and report…

NRS 618.3785 Division to provide notice to certain persons affected by certain accidents or motor vehicle crashes under certain circumstances. 1. If an accident or motor vehicle crash occurs in the course of employment which is fatal to one or more employees or which results in t…

NRS 618.379 Dismantling or removal of equipment causing certain accidents or motor vehicle crashes prohibited under certain circumstances; questioning of persons necessary for investigation. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, if any accident or motor vehicle crash o…

NRS 618.380 Employee to be notified of harmful exposure and corrective action. Each employer shall promptly notify any employee who has been or is being exposed to toxic materials or harmful physical agents in concentrations or at levels which exceed those prescribed by an applic…

NRS 618.383 Establishment of safety program: Duties of certain employers; requirements of program; training for temporary employees; regulations; exemption. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 8 and 9, an employer shall establish a written safety program and carry out …

NRS 618.384 Establishment of safety program: Employers encouraged to employ persons who have completed certain training in basic emergency care of persons in cardiac arrest. The Administrator shall encourage all employers who are required to establish a written safety program pur…

NRS 618.385 Employers not to maintain unsafe or unhealthy places of employment. An employer shall not: 1. Require, permit or suffer any employee to go or be in any employment or place of employment which is not safe and healthful. 2. Fail to furnish, provide and use safety device…

NRS 618.395 Construction and maintenance of unsafe or unhealthy place of employment prohibited. An employer, owner or lessee of any real property in this State shall not construct, cause to be constructed or maintained any place of employment that is not safe and healthful. (Adde…

NRS 618.405 Removal of or interference with safety devices or safeguards by employee prohibited. 1. An employee shall not remove, displace, damage, destroy or carry off any safety device or safeguard furnished and provided for use in any employment or place of employment, or inte…

NRS 618.415 Permanent variances from standards. Any affected employer may apply to the Administrator for a rule or order for a permanent variance from a standard adopted under this chapter. Affected employees must be given notice of each application and an opportunity to particip…

NRS 618.417 Variance from standard: Participation in experiments to safeguard health or safety. The Administrator may grant a variance from any standard or portion thereof whenever the Administrator determines that a variance is necessary to permit an employer to participate in a…

NRS 618.419 Variance from standard: Application for temporary order; notice and hearing. 1. Any employer may apply to the Administrator for a temporary order granting a variance from a standard which has been adopted pursuant to this chapter but has not become effective. The temp…

NRS 618.421 Variance from standard: Contents; period of effectiveness and renewal of temporary order; interim order. 1. Every temporary order granting a variance from a standard which has not become effective must prescribe: (a) The practices, means, methods, operations and proce…

NRS 618.425 Request for investigation; confidentiality; investigation by Division. 1. Any employee, representative of employees, provider of health care or governmental officer or employee whose primary duty is to ensure public safety, including a building inspector, building off…

NRS 618.435 Complaint of violation before or during inspection of workplace; review of refusal to issue citation; accompaniment of Division’s representative during inspection. 1. Before or during any inspection of a workplace, any employee, representative of employees, provider o…

NRS 618.445 Employee protected from discharge or discrimination; complaint for relief and investigation; reinstatement and reimbursement. 1. A person shall not discharge or in any manner discriminate against any employee because the employee has filed any complaint or instituted …

NRS 618.455 Advance notice of inspection prohibited; exception. It is unlawful for anyone to give advance notice of an inspection except as authorized by the Administrator. (Added to NRS by 1973, 1018; A 1993, 1885) ENFORCEMENT

NRS 618.465 Issuance of citations. 1. If, upon inspection or investigation, the Administrator or the Administrator’s authorized representative believes that an employer has violated a requirement of this chapter, or any standard, rule or order adopted or issued pursuant to this c…

NRS 618.475 Citations: Notification of employer; employer’s contest of citation or proposed penalty in case of fatal accident or motor vehicle crash; employee’s appeal of required abatement; not reviewable if uncontested. 1. If, after an inspection or investigation, the Division …

NRS 618.480 Citations: Division interview and discussion with immediate family of deceased employee in case of fatal accident or crash. 1. During an investigation of an accident or motor vehicle crash occurring in the course of employment which is fatal to one or more employees, …

NRS 618.495 Deposition of witnesses. In an investigation the Division may cause depositions of witnesses residing within or without the State to be taken in the manner prescribed by law and Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure for taking depositions in civil actions in courts of recor…

NRS 618.505 Compensation of witnesses. 1. Each witness who appears in obedience to a subpoena before the Division or its representative is entitled to receive for his or her attendance the fees and mileage provided for witnesses in civil cases in courts of record. 2. Claims for w…

NRS 618.515 Enforcement of orders and subpoenas of Division. If any person disobeys an order of the Division, a subpoena issued by it or one of its representatives, refuses to permit an inspection or refuses to testify as a witness to any matter regarding which the person may be …