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Rhode Island may be one of the smallest states in the Union, and compared to monster states like Texas, New York, and California, you may wonder what sort of value we can get from looking at the compliance posters rules in Rhode Island.

But the Rhode Island Compliance Posters are worthy of my attention, thank you, in large part because all of the compliance posters from every state are significant and important, but also because the Rhode Island Compliance Posters are different than any other compliance posters out there.

The difference, however, aren’t apparent if you consider the federal postings in the Rhode Island Compliance Posters. The six mandatory federal postings are the same that we’ve seen in many of the other states that we’ve looked at. They include the OSHA job safety and health report, the Family and Medical Leave Act posting, the Employee Polygraph Protection Act posting, the USERRA posting, the Equal Employment Opportunity posting, and the federal minimum wage posting.

Where the difference can be seen, though, is in the state postings in the Rhode Island Compliance Posters. There are eight different state postings that are mandatory in Rhode Island, such as the new no smoking notice, the workers’ comp posting, the unemployment and sexual harassment posting, the FMLA posting, the minimum wage posting, the discrimination notice, and the right to know posting.

If we look closer into the Rhode Island Compliance Posters, then we see the uniqueness of the posters in detail. For instance, if we look at the right to know posting that employers must put up for their employees, we see that the posting tells employees that their bosses must tell them about any hazardous substances at their work place.

The posting also says that employees have the right to know with the ways that they can be treated if they get exposed to this substance, what exactly that substance is, how much of the substance is considered dangerous, and what is the right protective equipment to be around or handle the substance.

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