Occupational-health compliance is a block of three articles of the Labour Code: Article 28 — the night-work restrictions, Article 31 — additional leave for heavy and dangerous work, and Article 45 — the duties of a safe environment, information and medical examinations. This page describes precisely the health-protection layer and differs from the general safety system. Foreign occupational-health-service models do not operate in the Georgian system — protection is provided directly by the Labour Code.
The night-work restrictions
Article 28 defines night time as the period from 22 to 6 o'clock. A night worker is a person who, within normalized time, usually works at least 3 hours during the night. The employment of a minor, a pregnant, a newly delivered or a nursing woman at night is prohibited; a person with disabilities or a parent of a child under 3 years — only with consent. In heavy, harmful or dangerous conditions the maximum night work within 24 hours does not exceed 8 hours. At a night worker's demand the employer conducts, at its own expense, preliminary and periodic medical examinations, and upon a medical conclusion transfers the person to day work.
Additional leave
The third part of Article 31 determines the benefit of the health layer: for work under heavy, harmful or dangerous conditions additional paid leave of 10 calendar days a year is granted. The same article fixes the baseline minima — paid leave of at least 24 working days and unpaid leave of at least 15 calendar days — which, together with the health sphere, also regulate the accounting of leave.
Environment, information and examinations
Article 45 is the foundation of the block: the employer must ensure a maximally safe and healthy environment; supply complete, objective and comprehensible information on every factor affecting health; introduce a preventive system; and, where necessary, provide personal protective equipment. The seventh and eighth parts of the same article are precisely the norms of the health layer: the protection of a pregnant woman from work posing a threat, and the rules of mandatory periodic medical examinations determined by Georgian legislation. Damage to health connected with the performance of work and the costs of treatment are compensated in full.