Posting of notice: Availability of the act, regulations and applicable standards

(a) (1) Each employer shall post and keep posted a notice or notices to be furnished by the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Connecticut Labor Department, informing employees of the protections and obligations provided for in the Act, and that for assistance and information, including copies of the Act and of specific safety and health standards, employees should contact the employer or the office of the Department of Labor. Such notice or notices shall be posted by the employer in each establishment in a conspicuous place or places where notices to employees are customarily posted. Each employer shall take steps to insure that such notices are not altered, defaced, or covered by other material. (2) Where the state has an approved poster informing employees of their projections and obligations, such poster, when posted by employers covered by the state plan, shall constitute compliance with the posting requirements of section 31-374(c) (1) of the act. (3) Reproductions or facsimiles of such state posters shall constitute compliance with the posting requirements of section 31-374(c) (1) of the act where such reproductions or facsimiles are at least 8-1/2 inches by 14 inches, and the printing size is at least 10 point. Whenever the size of the poster increases, the size of the print shall also increase accordingly. The caption or heading on the poster shall be in large type, generally not less than 36 point. (b) "Establishment" means a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed. (For example: A factory, mill, store, hotel, restaurant, movie theatre, farm, ranch, bank, sales office, warehouse, or central administrative office). Where distinctly separate activities are performed at a single physical location (such as contract construction activities from the same physical location as a lumber yard), each activity shall be treated as a separate physical establishment, and a separate notice or notices shall be posted in each such establishment, to the extent that such notices have been furnished by the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Connecticut Labor Department. Where employers are engaged in activities which are physically dispersed, such as agriculture, construction, transportation, communications, and electric, gas and sanitary services, the notice or notices required by this section shall be posted at the location to which employees report each day. Where employees do not usually work at, or report to, a single establishment, such as longshoremen, traveling salesmen, technicians, engineers, etc., such notice or notices shall be posted at the location from which the employees operate to carry out their activities. In all cases, such notice or notices shall be posted in accordance with the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section. (c) Copies of the Act, all regulations and all applicable standards will be available at the office of the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Connecticut Labor Department. If an employer has obtained copies of these materials, he shall make them available upon request to any employee or his authorized representative for review in the establishment where the employee is employed on the same day the request is made or at the earliest time mutually convenient to the employee or his authorized representative and the employer. (d) Any employer failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be subject to citation and penalty in accordance with the provisions of section 31-382 of the Act.