34-2-10. Employer’s duty with respect to provision of safe employment generally.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

(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.#
(b)
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.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

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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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t34-(v26)-2017-pdf.pdf, Volume V26, 2017 edition, page 22; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 8ee6134ad6cf.

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