Incident response at the workplace in Georgia is the system of the employer's powers and duties defined by Articles 45, 46 and 75 of the Labour Code: the mechanism for refusing dangerous work, the localisation of an incident's consequences, first aid and evacuation, the management of the employment status, and the inspection control that follows. Foreign regulatory models with rigidly fixed accident-reporting deadlines are not reproduced in the Georgian statute in that form — the source of the order of operations and of responsibility is the Labour Code itself.
The employee's right to refuse dangerous work
The third part of Article 45 reflects the first circle of an incident. The employee has the right to refuse to perform work, an assignment or an instruction that contravenes the law or, because of the inadequacy of labour-safety conditions, poses an evident and substantial threat to the life or health of the employee or a third person, to property or to the safety of the natural environment. This right is accompanied by an immediate notification duty: the employee is obliged to inform the employer at once of the circumstance for which the employee refuses to perform the obligation. In a response protocol these two acts — the refusal and the notification — must be documented, because their precise fixation carries decisive weight in any subsequent dispute.
The employer's duties at the moment of the incident
Under the fifth part of Article 45 the employer must take all reasonable measures for the timely localisation and elimination of the consequences of an industrial accident, for the provision of first aid and for evacuation. This duty does not depend on the severity of the incident: localisation means stopping the spread of consequences, first aid means securing the necessary medical care for the injured, and evacuation means the safe removal of persons from the dangerous zone. The other parts of the same article extend the response context: the employer must ensure a maximally safe and healthy working environment, supply the employee with complete, objective and comprehensible information on every factor affecting life and health, and introduce a preventive labour-safety system, including information on risks, rules for handling hazardous equipment and, where necessary, personal protective equipment.