Ohio Code § 4121.13

§ 4121.13.

The administrator of workers' compensation shall: (A) Investigate, ascertain, and declare and prescribe what hours of labor, safety devices,

safeguards, or other means or methods of protection are best adapted to render the

employees of every employment and place of employment and frequenters of every place

of employment safe, and to protect their welfare as required by law or lawful orders; (B) Ascertain and fix reasonable standards and prescribe, modify, and enforce reasonable

orders for the adoption 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, health, safety,

and welfare of employees in employments and places of employment or frequenters of

places of employment; (C) Ascertain, fix, and order reasonable standards for the construction, repair, and

maintenance of places of employment as shall render them safe; (D) Investigate, ascertain, and determine reasonable classifications of persons, employments,

and places of employment as are necessary to carry out the applicable sections of sections 4101.01 to 4101.16 and 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code ; (E) Adopt reasonable and proper rules relative to the exercise of the administrator's

powers and authorities, and proper rules to govern the administrator's proceedings

and to regulate the mode and manner of all investigations and hearings, which rules

shall not be effective until ten days after their publication;  a copy of the rules

shall be delivered at cost to every citizen making application therefor; (F) Investigate all cases of fraud or other illegalities pertaining to the operation

of the workers' compensation system and its several insurance funds and for that purpose,

the administrator has every power of an inquisitorial nature granted to the industrial

commission in this chapter and Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code; (G) Do all things convenient and necessary to accomplish the purposes directed in sections 4101.01 to 4101.16 and 4121.01 to 4121.28 of the Revised Code ; (H) Nothing in this section shall be construed to supersede section 4105.011 of the Revised Code in particular, or Chapter 4105. of the Revised Code in general.