O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 31-12-8 (2019)

Occupational health and safety

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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For the purpose of safeguarding the health of employees and the general public, the department and the county boards of health are empowered to conduct studies and research pertaining to the operation and maintenance of industrial, commercial, business, or other facilities where people congregate or work. The department may issue such orders and directives in any particular instance as shall be necessary to abate or minimize any practice or any operation or condition that constitutes or may be reasonably deemed to constitute a hazard to the health and safety of the employees or the general public. Administrative hearings and reviews and enforcement of such orders and directives shall be governed by Article 1 of Chapter 5 of this title.

History

Code 1933, § 88-1206, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 32B Am. Jur. 2d, Federal Employers’ Liability and Compensation Acts, § 19 et seq. 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Health, §§ 57, 75, 82. 48 Am. Jur. 2d, Labor and Labor Relations, § 379. 48B Am. Jur. 2d, Labor and Labor Relations, §§ 2607, 2613.

C.J.S. - 16 C.J.S., Constitutional Law, § 310 et seq. 16B C.J.S., Constitutional Law, §§ 983, 984, 1242. 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, § 61 et seq. 99 C.J.S., Workers’ Compensation, §§ 5, 356 et seq.