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2022 Georgia Code
Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations
Chapter 2 - Department of Labor
§ 34-2-10. Employer’s Duty With Respect to Provision of Safe Employment Generally
Universal Citation: GA Code § 34-2-10 (2022)
- 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.
- Every employer and every owner of a place of employment, place of public assembly, or public building, now or hereafter constructed, shall so construct, repair, and maintain such facility as to render it reasonably safe.
History. Ga. L. 1937, p. 230, § 10.
Cross references.
Safety and weight support requirements for scaffolding and staging design, § 25-15-110 .
Liability of employers for injuries to employees generally, § 34-7-20 et seq.
Law reviews.
For annual survey on insurance law, see 64 Mercer L. Rev. 151 (2012).
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