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ON LEGISLATION AND SOME ASPECTS OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY IN GEORGIA
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The Constitution of Georgia provides the main principles of protection of employees and employers at job places, concerning healthy and safety conditions. The paper reviews the new Laws of Georgia pertinent to labor safety, elaborated and approved during the last years. These Laws regulate social-economical, technical, hygienic and other conditions of work of employees at job places. These are Laws, destination of which to secure the workers health and safety in the present, future and must not have a negative influence on the generation. It-s indicated that at present technical supervision over the objects with increased technical danger in different branches of industry of Georgia is provided according to the Law of Georgia Code of Product Safety and Free Circulation by LLC Technical and Construction Supervision Agency. In paper are described the individual and collective protective means for employees- industrial traumas and occupational diseases prevention, as well as hardware components, used at different enterprises of Georgia. The data about occupational diseases at Georgian enterprises are given. The paper reviews the data about microclimate of the working zone - temperature, relative humidity, pressure, velocity of air stream, as well as about other important parameters of job places - dust, noise, vibration, radiation. The paper considers problems, dealing with electro safety, the reasons which provoke damages and the means of first aid in case of damages, provoked by electric current. The issues of influence of road tunnels fire safety and aerodynamic resistance with respect to air average velocity and consumption are considered as well.
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Georgian Law - Georgian Labor Code. Tbilisi, 2010, Georgian Parliament.
Georgian Law - About Labor Safety. Tbilisi, 2019, Georgian Parliament.
Georgian Law - About Labor Inspection. Tbilisi, 2020, Georgian Parliament.
Georgian Law - Code of Product Safety and Free Circulation. Tbilisi, 2012, Georgian Parliament.
Georgian National review on labor protection. Georgian occupational safety and health Information Center. Tbilisi, 2015, p. 54.
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