What Health and Safety Compliance Means
Health and safety compliance is the complete set of duties defined by the Georgian Labour Code, measured by the numerical scale of its fines. The foundation is the Code's master demand: the employer must provide the employee with a working environment that is as safe and healthy as possible for life and health. This general demand unfolds into concrete obligations: supplying complete, objective and understandable information about every factor affecting life and health; introducing a preventive system of labour safety and providing personal protective equipment; and taking every reasonable measure for the timely localisation of the consequences of industrial accidents, first aid and evacuation.
The employee, too, holds a right-duty pair: the employee may refuse to perform work, an assignment or an instruction that contradicts the law or, through unsafe working conditions, creates an obvious and material threat to the life or health of the employee or a third person, to property or to the natural environment — with the duty to notify the employer immediately. A compliance programme builds precisely this two-way mechanism into a system.