(820 ILCS 255/15) (from Ch. 48, par. 1415)
Sec. 15.
Fire Safety.
(a) An employer must arrange with the administrators
of fire departments having responsibility for fire prevention and control
in units of local government within which the employer uses, produces or
stores toxic substances, to make the firefighters employed by such fire departments
familiar with the hazards of toxic substances used in the workplace of the
employer, associated fire hazards, the layout of the workplace, places where
employees of the employer are regularly stationed during the course of their
work, entrances to roads inside the workplace and possible evacuation roads.
"Administrators of fire departments" shall include a fire chief or administrator,
or that person's designee.
(b) If more than one fire department might respond to an emergency involving
a workplace where an employer uses, produces or stores toxic substances,
the employer must make arrangements with the persons responsible for the
administration of each such fire department to designate primary emergency
authority to a specific fire department.
(c) Where administrators of fire departments refuse to enter into arrangements
specified in subsections (a) and (b) of this Section, the employer shall
have a duty to document such refusal.
(d) The fire department shall maintain copies of the information provided
by the employer under subsections (a) and (b) of this Section, and shall
provide copies of this information upon the request of any fire department,
fire department employee or representative of a fire department employee.
(Source: P.A. 83-240.)
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