N.Y. Labor Law Section 879
Records

Employers shall keep a record of the name, address and social security number of every employee who handles or uses a substance or substances included in section nineteen hundred ten of the federal occupational safety and health regulations, subparagraph z and which such substance or substances was or were handled or used by which employee. Such record shall be made available to each affected employee, former employee, designated physician or representative and the commissioner of health, upon request, for examination and copying. Such record shall be kept for forty years. Such records shall be sent to the department of health if the employer’s establishment ceases to operate within the state of New York.

Source: Section 879 — Records, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/LAB/879 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jan. 18, 2025).

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Sep. 22, 2014

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