{"id":"DUT-AL-010","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Alabama","state":"AL","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Legislature of Alabama (Code of Alabama 1975, Title 25)","authority":"Code of Alabama 1975, § 25-1-1 (Acts 1939, No. 161, p. 232; Code 1940, T. 26, § 12)","instrument":"Ala. Code § 25-1-1","title":"Duties of employers, etc., with respect to provision of safe employment","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","EMP"],"addressees":["employers (\u0027every person, firm, corporation, partnership... having control or custody of any employment, place of employment or of any employee,\u0027 excluding agricultural and domestic employment); owners or persons in control of premises (\u0027every owner of a place of employment, place of public assembly or public building\u0027)"],"clause":"Every employer shall furnish employment which shall be reasonably safe... and shall adopt and use methods and processes reasonably adequate to render... the places where the employment is performed reasonably safe for his employees and others who are not trespassers, and he shall do everything reasonably necessary to protect the life, health and safety of his employees","enforcement":"statutory standard of care; enforced through civil liability to non-employee invitees and through the workers\u0027-compensation scheme (Ala. Code § 25-5-11(c) as to willful safety-rule violations)","functions":[],"notes":"Every employer, and every owner of a place of employment, place of public assembly or public building, must render it \u0027reasonably safe\u0027 and do \u0027everything reasonably necessary to protect the life, health and safety\u0027 of employees and lawful visitors; \u0027safe\u0027 and \u0027safety\u0027 by definition \u0027include conditions and methods of sanitation and hygiene reasonably necessary for the protection of the life, health and safety of the employees and others who are not trespassers\u0027 (§ 25-1-1(c)(3)).","sourceUrl":"https://law.onecle.com/alabama/title-25/25-1-1.html","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":258984,"grade":"primary","character":"workplace_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-AL","url":"/library/DUT-AL-010","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-AL-010","citation":"Legislature of Alabama (Code of Alabama 1975, Title 25), Ala. Code § 25-1-1 (standing) (Ex. DUT-AL-010)","stateName":"Alabama","related":["DUT-AL-009"]}