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Oklahoma Statutes - Title 40. Labor Page 257 this section may not be utilized for the basis of a public policy tort. H. As used in this section: 1. "Electronic communications device" means a device that uses electronic signals to create, transmit or receive information, including computers, telephones, personal digital assistants and other similar devices; and 2. "Personal online social media account" means an online account that is used by an employee or prospective employee exclusively for personal communications that an individual establishes and uses through an electronic application, service or platform used to generate or store content, including, but not limited to, videos, still photographs, blogs, video blogs, instant messages, audio recordings or email that is not available to the general public. Added by Laws 2014, c. 315, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2014.
§40-173.3. Employer liability for not reviewing personal social media accounts. No business or employer shall be held liable in any regard for not reviewing an employee's personal online social media accounts as defined herein. Furthermore, no business or employer shall be held liable in any regard for not requesting, accessing or reviewing the personal online social media accounts of any employee. The employer's failure to access such information shall not be admissible in any legal proceeding. Added by Laws 2014, c. 315, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2014.
§40-174. Scaffolding, etc., to be safeguarded. All scaffolds, hoists, cranes, stays, ladders, supports, or other mechanical contrivances erected or constructed by any person, firm or corporation in the state, for use in the erection, repairing, alteration, removal, or painting of any house, building, bridge, viaduct, steel tank, standpipe, or other structure, shall be erected and constructed in a safe, suitable, and proper manner, and shall be so erected and constructed, placed and operated as to give proper and adequate protection to life and limb of any person or persons employed or engaged thereon, or passing under or by the same, and in such manner as to prevent the falling of any material that may be used or deposited thereon. Scaffolding or staging swung or suspended from an overhead support more than twenty (20) feet from the ground or floor, shall have, where practicable, a safety rail properly secured and braced, rising at least thirty-four (34) inches above the floor or main portion of such scaffolding or staging and extending along the entire length of the outside and ends thereto and such scaffolding or staging shall be so fastened as to prevent the same from swaying from the building or structure.