What Safety Audits and Inspections Mean
Safety audits and inspections in Georgia revolve around the mandate of a single state institution — the Labour Inspectorate. Under the Code, the Labour Inspection Service is competent to ensure the effective application of the Constitution, international treaties, the Code itself, the Organic Law on Labour Safety, the Law on Labour Migration, the Law on Public Service and other normative acts on labour rights — collectively, the labour norms. The mandate also embraces employment contracts, collective agreements, mediation agreements and arbitral awards.
The auditor's task is precisely to simulate that mandate: to investigate in advance what the inspectorate will investigate. The authority to examine administrative-offence cases connected with violations of labour norms and to impose administrative penalties belongs to the Labour Inspectorate — so an organisation planning an audit knows in advance who will investigate, what will be investigated, and how it will end.