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title: "Health and Safety Compliance"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/healthcare-and-pharmaceutical-law-en/health-and-safety-compliance-870-en"
field: "Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Law"
description: "Health and safety compliance in Georgia: Labour Code Articles 45, 28, 31, 77 — night work, leave, fines from 200 GEL. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-02-13"
updated: "2026-10-24"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Health and Safety Compliance

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## 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.

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### What is the foundation of compliance?

The Labour Code's set of duties — safe environment, information, prevention, protective equipment and compensation of damage.

### What counts as night time?

The period from 22:00 to 6:00; night work is, as a rule, at least 3 hours in that period.

### What are the leave minima?

24 working days paid, 15 calendar days unpaid, and 10 additional calendar days for heavy work.

### Which fines apply?

From 200 to 1 000 GEL by category; protected groups and repeats bring doubled fines.