Boyle's Wisconsin Safe-Place Law



Chapter Six: Actions
    (d) Evidence
      (8) Occupational Safety & Health Act of 1970
It appears that safety standards promulgated under the federal Occupational Safety & Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) are admissible on the question of whether the place was as safe as the nature of the same reasonably permitted. [32]

Conversion Table Wis. 2d or Wis. to N.W. 2d or N.W.

32. Knight v. Burns, Kirkley & Williams Constr. Co., Inc., 331 So. 2d 651 (Ala. Sup. Ct. 1976). See also Olson v. Ratzel, 89 Wis. 2d 227, 246 (Ct. App. 1979): "The same principles which determine the effect of a Wisconsin statute on the standard of care are applicable to determine the effect of a federal statute or regulation."


Revised July 11, 2000

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