{"id":"DUT-GA-009","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Georgia","state":"GA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"General Assembly of Georgia (Ga. L. 1937, p. 230, sections 10 and 18; section 18 amended by Ga. L. 1975, p. 198, section 3)","authority":"Title 34 (Labor and Industrial Relations), Chapter 2 (Department of Labor)","instrument":"O.C.G.A. sections 34-2-10 and 34-2-13","title":"Employer\u0027s duty with respect to provision of safe employment generally; Penalties for violations of chapter","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["EMP","DUTY"],"addressees":["employers; owners of places of employment, places of public assembly and public buildings"],"clause":"(a) Every employer shall furnish employment which shall be reasonably safe for the employees therein, shall furnish and use safety devices and safeguards, shall adopt and use methods and processes reasonably adequate to render such an employment and place of employment safe, and shall do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, health, safety, and welfare of such employees.","enforcement":"Section 34-2-13(a): any employer or owner who violates or fails or refuses to comply with any provision of the chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable for each offense by a fine of $20 to $200, imprisonment up to six months, or both","functions":[],"notes":"Every employer in Georgia must furnish reasonably safe employment, use safety devices and safeguards, adopt methods and processes adequate to render the place of employment safe, and \u0027do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, health, safety, and welfare of such employees\u0027; subsection (b) requires \u0027every employer and every owner of a place of employment, place of public assembly, or public building\u0027 to \u0027construct, repair, and maintain such facility as to render it reasonably safe.\u0027 Section 34-2-6(a)(4) gives the Commissioner of Labor rulemaking power \u0027for the prevention of accidents or the prevention of industrial or occupational diseases in every employment or place of employment.\u0027","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2024/T34%20(V26)%202017.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":4433082,"grade":"primary","character":"workplace_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-GA","url":"/library/DUT-GA-009","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-GA-009","citation":"General Assembly of Georgia (Ga. L. 1937, p. 230, sections 10 and 18; section 18 amended by Ga. L. 1975, p. 198, section 3), O.C.G.A. sections 34-2-10 and 34-2-13 (standing) (Ex. DUT-GA-009)","stateName":"Georgia","related":["DUT-GA-010"]}