Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees
Section 292.380 - Workrooms to be kept in sanitary condition.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939
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 may be employed in any such process or manufacture or labor, and shall also provide and maintain adequate and efficient facilities for carrying off all injurious dust, and the floors in any room or apartment where such work or process is carried on shall be kept and maintained in a smooth and hard condition, and no sweeping shall be permitted during working hours except where the floor in such workshop is dampened so as to prevent the raising of dust; and all ore, slag, dross and fume shall be kept in some room or apartment separate from the workrooms occupied by the employees, and all mixing and weighing of such ore, slag, dross or fume shall be done in such separate room or apartment, and all such material shall be dampened or covered before being handled or transported by employees.
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(RSMo 1939 § 10219)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13260; 1919 § 6825

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Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations

Chapter 292 - Health and Safety of Employees

Section 292.010 - Notification of occupancy of factory.

Section 292.020 - Equipment to be guarded.

Section 292.030 - Safety guards.

Section 292.040 - Minor not to clean or work in certain places about machinery.

Section 292.050 - Openings to be guarded.

Section 292.060 - Fire escapes.

Section 292.070 - Doors to open outward, not to be bolted, when.

Section 292.080 - Explosives not to be placed near egress.

Section 292.090 - Scaffolding — warning to those near building.

Section 292.110 - Ventilation.

Section 292.120 - Prevention of dust, smoke and gas.

Section 292.130 - Director may order fan installed.

Section 292.140 - Overcrowding in factories prohibited.

Section 292.150 - Washrooms for women.

Section 292.160 - Separate water closets.

Section 292.180 - Health and safety of employees to be protected — director may seal machinery, when.

Section 292.190 - All accidents to be reported.

Section 292.200 - Offenses.

Section 292.210 - Violation a misdemeanor — fines.

Section 292.220 - Proceedings against whom when violated by corporation.

Section 292.230 - Prosecution where violation of other laws.

Section 292.240 - Fines, where paid.

Section 292.250 - Duty of prosecuting attorney.

Section 292.280 - Inspection — duty and power of director of inspection section.

Section 292.290 - Penalty.

Section 292.300 - Employer to provide protection to employees from diseases.

Section 292.310 - Articles considered dangerous to health.

Section 292.320 - Employees to be furnished with clothing — respirators to be used while at work.

Section 292.330 - Employees to be examined monthly by physician.

Section 292.340 - Physician to make report to department of health and senior services — penalty for failure.

Section 292.350 - Duty of director of department of health and senior services.

Section 292.360 - Employer to provide dressing rooms, lavatories.

Section 292.370 - Drinking fountains, ice water, to be provided employees.

Section 292.380 - Workrooms to be kept in sanitary condition.

Section 292.390 - Prevention of dust.

Section 292.400 - Hoppers, chutes, to be provided with covering.

Section 292.410 - Duty of director of inspection section.

Section 292.420 - Notices to be posted in rooms — to contain what.

Section 292.430 - Penalty for violation.

Section 292.440 - Employer defined.

Section 292.450 - Applicability of sections 292.450 to 292.540.

Section 292.460 - Outside ladder not to be used, when.

Section 292.470 - Stairways to be kept lighted when in use.

Section 292.480 - To provide protection for persons engaged in building.

Section 292.490 - Must build proper supports — when.

Section 292.500 - Duty of contractors and owners.

Section 292.510 - Shafts or openings to be enclosed — railroads excepted.

Section 292.520 - Director to enforce provisions.

Section 292.530 - Violation — penalty.

Section 292.540 - Director to make inspection.

Section 292.560 - Sale of tenement-made articles prohibited.

Section 292.570 - Penalty.

Section 292.600 - Definitions.

Section 292.602 - Missouri emergency response commission established — members — appointment, qualifications — terms — vacancies — removal for cause — expenses, powers and duties.

Section 292.604 - Funding of commission — distribution of funds.

Section 292.605 - Employer to furnish certain information, to whom, form — on-site inspections, when — updating of information, when — information made available to public, by whom, fee.

Section 292.606 - Fees, certain employers, how much, due when, late penalty — excess credited when — agencies receiving funds, duties — use of funds, commission to establish criteria.

Section 292.607 - Chemical emergency preparedness fund established — reversion to general revenue, prohibited.

Section 292.610 - Employer's trade secrets, department to protect — disclosure of by public employees and officers, penalty.

Section 292.613 - Rules and regulations, department to promulgate — procedure.

Section 292.615 - Violations, attorney general to bring action — jurisdiction, circuit court — penalties, limit, payable to general revenue — civil actions, by whom, why, commission approval — actions against local committee, by whom, why — access fo...

Section 292.617 - Explosive or blasting agents, temporary storage — notification of local fire department and certain others — content of report, exceptions — visible markings on buildings, rooms and containers, requirements, exceptions — motor vehic...

Section 292.623 - Immunity from liability for official actions by members of commission and local emergency planning committee, exceptions.

Section 292.625 - Additional duties of department.

Section 292.630 - Portable toilets required at certain construction projects.

Section 292.650 - Hepatitis B immunization for at-risk state employees — departments to determine, duties.

Section 292.655 - Definitions — needles used by employers in conduct of business, any commercially available may be used.

Section 292.656 - Medical needles, employer use of OSHA- or FDA-approved devices permitted.

Section 292.675 - Definitions — on-site training required — workers to maintain documentation of completion of training — resolution or ordinance required — violations, penalty — rulemaking authority.