{"id":"DUT-GA-010","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Georgia","state":"GA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"General Assembly of Georgia (Civil Code 1895, section 2611; Civil Code 1910, section 3130; Code 1933, section 66-301)","authority":"Title 34, Chapter 7 (Employer\u0027s Liability), Article 1","instrument":"O.C.G.A. section 34-7-20","title":"Care by employer in selection of employees and in furnishing of safe machinery; employer\u0027s duty to warn","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["EMP","DUTY"],"addressees":["employers"],"clause":"The employer is bound to exercise ordinary care... If there are latent defects in machinery or dangers incident to an employment, which defects or dangers the employer knows or ought to know but which are unknown to the employee, then the employer shall give the employee warning with respect thereto.","enforcement":"Civil liability in tort for breach of the statutory duty (subject, from August 5, 2020, to the gross-negligence condition of the Business Safety Act, Ex. DUT-GA-012, and to the exclusivity of workers\u0027 compensation where it applies)","functions":[],"notes":"Every employer is bound to ordinary care toward its employees and must warn them of \u0027dangers incident to an employment\u0027 that the employer \u0027knows or ought to know\u0027; an airborne pathogen present in the workplace and in the community was such a danger from March 2020.","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2024/T34%20(V26)%202017.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":4433082,"grade":"primary","character":"workplace_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-GA","url":"/library/DUT-GA-010","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-GA-010","citation":"General Assembly of Georgia (Civil Code 1895, section 2611; Civil Code 1910, section 3130; Code 1933, section 66-301), O.C.G.A. section 34-7-20 (standing) (Ex. DUT-GA-010)","stateName":"Georgia","related":["DUT-GA-009","DUT-GA-012"]}