Ohio § 4121.13 Administrator of workers' compensation - powers and duties

Ohio Statutes

§ 4121.13 — Administrator of workers' compensation - powers and duties

Ohio § 4121.13

Title 41Labor and Industry

Ch. 4121Industrial Commission; Bureau Of Workers' Compensation

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4121.13 (2026).

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The administrator of workers' compensation shall:

(A)Investigate, ascertain, and declare and prescribe what hours of labor, safety devices, safeguards, or other means or methods of protection are best adapted to render the employees of every employment and place of employment and frequenters of every place of employment safe, and to protect their welfare as required by law or lawful orders;

(B)Ascertain and fix reasonable standards and prescribe, modify, and enforce reasonable orders for the adoption of safety devices, safeguards, and other means or methods of protection to be as nearly uniform as possible as may be necessary to carry out all laws and lawful orders relative to the protection of the life, health, safety, and welfare of employees in employments and places of employment o

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The administrator of workers' compensation shall:

(A) Investigate, ascertain, and declare and prescribe what hours of labor, safety devices, safeguards, or other means or methods of protection are best adapted to render the employees of every employment and place of employment and frequenters of every place of employment safe, and to protect their welfare as required by law or lawful orders;

(B) Ascertain and fix reasonable standards and prescribe, modify, and enforce reasonable orders for the adoption of safety devices, safeguards, and other means or methods of protection to be as nearly uniform as possible as may be necessary to carry out all laws and lawful orders relative to the protection of the life, health, safety, and welfare of employees in employments and places of employment or frequenters of places of employment;

(C) Ascertain, fix, and order reasonable standards for the construction, repair, and maintenance of places of employment as shall render them safe;

(D) Investigate, ascertain, and determine reasonable classifications of persons, employments, and places of employment as are necessary to carry out the applicable sections of sections4101.01to4101.16and4121.01to4121.29of the Revised Code;

(E) Adopt reasonable and proper rules relative to the exercise of the administrator's powers and authorities, and proper rules to govern the administrator's proceedings and to regulate the mode and manner of all investigations and hearings, which rules shall not be effective until ten days after their publication; a copy of the rules shall be delivered at cost to every citizen making application therefor;

(F) Investigate all cases of fraud or other illegalities pertaining to the operation of the workers' compensation system and its several insurance funds and for that purpose, the administrator has every power of an inquisitorial nature granted to the industrial commission in this chapter and Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code;

(G) Do all things convenient and necessary to accomplish the purposes directed in sections4101.01to4101.16and4121.01to4121.28of the Revised Code;

(H) Nothing in this section shall be construed to supersede section4105.011of the Revised Code in particular, or Chapter 4105. of the Revised Code in general.

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