Safety Committees - Locations

(1) Safety committees shall be established at each of the employer's primary places of employment. For the purpose of these rules, a primary place of employment shall mean a major economic unit at a single geographic location, comprised of a building, group of buildings, and all surrounding facilities. (Examples of primary places of employment would include a pulp or lumber mill, a manufacturing plant, a hospital complex, bank, a school district, or a state agency.) As a primary place of employment the location would have both management and workers present, and shall have the ability to take action on the majority of the recommendations made by a safety committee. (2) An employer's auxiliary, mobile, satellite or temporary locations, such as would be found in construction operations, trucking, branch or field offices, sales operations, or highly mobile activities, may be combined at the employers discretion into a single, centralized committee upon approval by the Commissioner. This centralized committee shall represent the safety and health concerns of all the locations.