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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Georgia
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Title 34 (Labor and Industrial Relations), Chapter 2 (Department of Labor)
- 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
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesStanding duty
- Addressees
- employers; owners of places of employment, places of public assembly and public buildings
- Character
- workplace duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Georgia DUT-GA
Operative words
(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.
Penalty
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
What it required
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 'do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, health, safety, and welfare of such employees'; subsection (b) requires 'every employer and every owner of a place of employment, place of public assembly, or public building' to 'construct, repair, and maintain such facility as to render it reasonably safe.' Section 34-2-6(a)(4) gives the Commissioner of Labor rulemaking power 'for the prevention of accidents or the prevention of industrial or occupational diseases in every employment or place of employment.'
Retrieval noteOfficial Code of Georgia Annotated, Title 34 (Volume 26, 2017 replacement volume), Internet Archive item gov.ga.ocga.2024. Section 34-2-10 at PDF p. 22; section 34-2-13 at PDF pp. 24-25; section 34-2-6 at PDF p. 18. The history line of section 34-2-10 shows Ga. L. 1937 only, so the text is the text in force in 2020-2021. The same volume PDF is the file for Ex. DUT-GA-010.