(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to promote safety education, safety planning, and to provide any needed technical assistance.
(b) The Secretary of the Department of Labor shall coordinate with the safe state program, the safety and health consulting service, to establish a safety program for cooperating with industry to promote safety and provide technical assistance. Emphasis shall be placed on unsafe acts in both small industry and high risk industry.
(c) Qualified safety management specialists shall be employed in the safe state program to assist employers in developing or improving their safety programs. Safe state program personnel shall, upon referral by the secretary of an employer's request, make inspections for safety monitoring and report the resulting findings and recommendations to the employer and to the secretary.
(d) The safe state program shall establish and collect reasonable fees for technical and consultative safety services that are not required by law, provided to persons requesting the services from or through the Workers' Compensation Division of the Department of Labor.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.
Chapter 5 - Workers' Compensation.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 25-5-3 - Secretary to Prepare and Distribute Forms, Etc.
Section 25-5-4 - Reports and Records of Injuries for Which Compensation Claimed.
Section 25-5-5 - Reports of Settlements.
Section 25-5-6 - Circuit Court Clerks to Report Disposition of Cases.
Section 25-5-7 - Supplementary Reports as to Initiation, Cessation, etc., of Compensation Payments.
Section 25-5-8 - Employers' Options to Secure Payment of Compensation.
Section 25-5-9 - Pooling of Employers' Liabilities for Qualification as Self-Insurers.
Section 25-5-10 - Liabilities of Persons Engaged in Schemes, etc., to Avoid Liability to Workers.
Section 25-5-12 - Chief Justice of Supreme Court to Prepare Uniform Rules for Circuit Courts.
Section 25-5-13 - Applicability of Chapter.
Section 25-5-15 - Safety Committee.
Section 25-5-15.1 - State Safety Program; Legislative Intent; Creation.