Section 50-6-501 - Establishment of safety committees - Reporting by insurance companies - Civil penalty(a) In order to promote health and safety in places of employment in this state, every public or private employer that is subject to this chapter, shall establish and administer a safety committee in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to § 50-6-502, if the administrator of the workers' compensation bureau finds that the employer has an experience modification factor or rate applied to the premium greater than or equal to one and twenty hundredths (1.20).(b) In making determinations under subsection (a), the administrator of the workers' compensation bureau shall utilize the most recent statistics regarding experience modification rates.(c)(1) Every insurance company authorized to write workers' compensation insurance shall submit its modification factors or rates for each of its workers' compensation insureds to the commissioner of commerce and insurance, when requested by the commissioner. On request from the administrator of the workers' compensation bureau, the commissioner of commerce and insurance shall provide the bureau of workers' compensation with the information.(2) The administrator of the workers' compensation bureau shall establish safety committee requirements for self-insured employers pursuant to rules promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.(3) The commissioner of commerce and insurance may assess a civil penalty of up to two thousand dollars ($2,000) per incident for failure to comply with subdivision (c)(1).Acts 1992, ch. 900, § 5; 1999, ch. 520, § 41; 2005, ch. 390, § 13; 2013, ch. 282, § 1; 2015, ch. 341, § 15.