Illinois Compiled Statutes 820 Employment: Article -

• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 1
  Short title. This Act may be cited as the Occupational Safety and Health Act. (Source: P.A. 98-874, eff. 1-1-15.)
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 2
  References to prior Acts. On and after the effective date of this Act, a reference to the Safety Inspection and Education Act or the Health...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 5
  Definitions. In this Act: "Department" means the Department of Labor. "Director" means the Director of Labor. "Division" means the Division of Occupational Safety and Health...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 10
  Administration of Act; Division of Occupational Safety and Health. (a) The Department shall administer this Act. For the purpose of assisting in the administration of...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 15
  Application of Act. This Act applies to every public employer in this State and its employees. Nothing in this Act, however, applies to working conditions...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 20
  Duties of employers and employees. (a) Every public employer must provide reasonable protection to the lives, health, and safety of its employees and must furnish...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 25
  Occupational safety and health standards. (a) All federal occupational safety and health standards which the United States Secretary of Labor has promulgated or modified in...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 30
  Standards; required features. (a) A standard promulgated under this Act shall prescribe the use of labels or other appropriate forms of warning as are necessary...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 35
  Emergency temporary standards. (a) The Director may promulgate emergency temporary standards or rules, or both, to take effect immediately by filing the proposed standard with...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 40
  Variance from standards. The Director may grant a temporary or permanent variance from a State occupational safety and health standard upon application by a public...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 45
  Temporary variance. (a) A public employer may apply to the Director for a temporary variance from an occupational safety and health standard promulgated under this...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 50
  Permanent variance. (a) A public employer affected by an occupational safety and health standard promulgated under this Act may apply to the Director for a...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 55
  Rules generally. (a) The Director, from time to time, shall promulgate rules that clearly describe the persons to whom those rules apply and that clearly...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 60
  Employers' records. (a) The Director shall adopt rules requiring public employers to maintain accurate records of, and to make reports on, work-related deaths, injuries, and...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 65
  Periodic inspection of workplaces. (a) The Director shall enforce the occupational safety and health standards and rules promulgated under this Act and any occupational health...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 70
  Inspection of workplace upon complaint. (a) An employee or representative of employees who believes that a violation of an occupational safety and health standard exists...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 75
  Opportunity to accompany inspection. Subject to rules adopted by the Director, a representative of the employer and a representative authorized by the employer's employees shall...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 80
  Violation of Act or standard; citation. (a) Upon inspection or investigation of a workplace, if the Director or his or her authorized representative believes that...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 85
  Civil penalties. (a) After an inspection of a workplace under this Act, if the Director issues a citation, he or she shall, within 5 days...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 90
  Informal review. (a) A public employer may submit in writing data relating to the abatement of a hazard to be considered by an authorized representative...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 95
  Request for hearing. (a) Within 15 working days after receiving a citation, proposed assessment of a civil penalty, or notice of failure to correct a...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 100
  Hearing. (a) If a public employer or the employer's representative notifies the Director that the employer intends to contest a citation and notice of penalty...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 105
  Judicial review. (a) Any party adversely affected by a final order or determination of the Administrative Law Judge on behalf of the Director may obtain...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 110
  Discrimination against employee prohibited. (a) A person may not discharge or in any way discriminate against an employee because the employee has: (i) filed a...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 115
  Abatement of imminent danger. (a) Whenever the Director determines that an imminent danger exists in the working conditions of any public employee in this State,...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 120
  Criminal penalties. (a) Willful violation. A public employer that willfully violates any provision of this Act or any standard, rule, regulation, or order under this...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 125
  Confidentiality of trade secrets. (a) All information reported to or otherwise obtained by the Director or the Director's authorized representative in connection with any inspection...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 130
  Prosecution by Attorney General or State's Attorney. The Attorney General or a State's Attorney, upon request of the Department, shall prosecute any violation of this...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 135
  Safety education and other programs. (a) The Department shall encourage public employers as well as organizations and groups of employees to institute and maintain safety...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 140
  Director's reports. (a) In the annual report to the Governor required by the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, the Director shall report the result of...
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 145
  Transition provisions. This Act does not affect any act done, ratified, or canceled, or any right occurring or established, or any action or proceeding had...
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• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 900
  (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 98-874, eff. 1-1-15; text omitted.)
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 910
  The Safety Inspection and Education Act is repealed. (Source: P.A. 98-874, eff. 1-1-15.)
• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 915
  The Health and Safety Act is repealed. (Source: P.A. 98-874, eff. 1-1-15.)
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• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 920
  (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 98-874, eff. 1-1-15; text omitted.)
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• Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Act. - 820 ILCS 219, Section 925
  (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 98-874, eff. 1-1-15; text omitted.)

Last modified: February 18, 2015