50-71-301. Department's power to prescribe safety devices and fix and order safety standards. The department may, after hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, by safety orders, rules, or otherwise:
     (1) declare and prescribe what safety devices, safeguards, or other means or methods of protection are well adapted to render the employees of every employment and place of employment safe as required by law;
     (2) fix reasonable standards and prescribe, modify, and enforce such reasonable orders for the adoption, installation, use, maintenance, and operation 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 and safety of the employees and places of employment;
     (3) fix and order such reasonable standards for the construction, repair, and maintenance of places of employment and equipment as shall render them safe;
     (4) require the performance of any other act which the protection of the life and safety of employees in employments and places of employment may demand.

     History: En. Sec. 8, Ch. 341, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 182, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 41-1715; amd. Sec. 64, Ch. 613, L. 1989.