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Ex. DUT-AL-010 Standing duty Primary source read

Ala. Code § 25-1-1

Duties of employers, etc., with respect to provision of safe employment

Legislature of Alabama (Code of Alabama 1975, Title 25) · Alabama (State)

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Jurisdiction
Alabama
Level
State
Authority
Code of Alabama 1975, § 25-1-1 (Acts 1939, No. 161, p. 232; Code 1940, T. 26, § 12)
Effective
standing
End
standing (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
Standing (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Workplace rulesStanding duty
Addressees
  • employers ('every person, firm, corporation, partnership... having control or custody of any employment, place of employment or of any employee,' excluding agricultural and domestic employment); owners or persons in control of premises ('every owner of a place of employment, place of public assembly or public building')
Character
workplace duty
Collection
Standing duties: Alabama DUT-AL

Operative words

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

Penalty

statutory standard of care; enforced through civil liability to non-employee invitees and through the workers'-compensation scheme (Ala. Code § 25-5-11(c) as to willful safety-rule violations)

What it required

Every employer, and every owner of a place of employment, place of public assembly or public building, must render it 'reasonably safe' and do 'everything reasonably necessary to protect the life, health and safety' of employees and lawful visitors; 'safe' and 'safety' by definition 'include 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' (§ 25-1-1(c)(3)).

Retrieval note

The Legislature's code site and the Justia and FindLaw mirrors refused automated fetching (HTTP 403); the onecle mirror (page last modified May 3, 2021) reproduces the section with its history line, and the text matches the search-engine extracts of the Justia and FindLaw pages word for word. The section's definition of safety as including 'sanitation and hygiene' is the State-law footing of every sanitation, distancing and screening measure an employer took in 2020-2021.