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Fines by law article, workplace size and hazard class.
| Article | Violation | Under 10 employees | 10-49 employees | 50+ employees | Year |
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Where a cell holds three figures they are, in order, the amounts for less hazardous / hazardous / highly hazardous workplaces. Shown for information.
2026 amounts under the other laws
The main table above carries the 2026 figures for Law No. 6331. The Ministry publishes a separate table for each of the other five laws; those 2026 amounts are below, verified row by row against the Ministry's own spreadsheet.
| Law article | Penalty article | Violation | 2026 amount |
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In three of these laws the Ministry defines the violation by article reference rather than by a sentence; those rows show the article reference and the source's own explanatory note. The source publishes in Turkish, so the text stays Turkish on this page as well.
United States — OSHA civil penalties
In the United States the amount does not depend on workplace size or hazard class: a ceiling is set per type of violation and adjusted for inflation each January.
| Violation type | Minimum | Maximum |
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European Union — penalties by member state
The EU sets no penalty amounts. The Framework Directive requires Member States to take the necessary steps and ensure adequate controls; the amounts are set by national law, so this is a per-country table.
United Kingdom — offences and maximum penalties
In the UK the amount is not fixed in a table: the offence is first routed by mode of trial, then a maximum prison term and a fine follow. Since 2015 the fine is unlimited for most offences.
| Offence | Mode of trial | On summary conviction | On conviction on indictment |
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Germany — administrative fine ceilings
German law states the ceiling in words rather than figures, and only two levels exist: one for the employer or responsible person who breaches an enforceable order, a lower one for other cases.
| Case | Maximum | Wording in the law |
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Italy — imprisonment or a fine, per article
Italian sanctions are criminal, not administrative: for each breached article the law sets a prison range or a fine range, and aggravating circumstances raise the prison term.
| Fine | Imprisonment | Provision as written |
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Legal basis
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Legal basis — Türkiye
| Obligation | Legal basis | How the tool covers it |
|---|---|---|
| An administrative fine at the base amount written in the article is imposed on an employer who fails to meet the duties listed there, separately for each duty and each breach. | Occupational Health and Safety Law No. 6331, Art. 26(1) | The article and breach columns of the main table; every row matches a subparagraph of the law. |
| The fines are applied at the same amount for the low-hazard class, increased by twenty-five per cent for the hazardous class and by fifty per cent for the very hazardous class, in workplaces with fewer than ten workers. | Occupational Health and Safety Law No. 6331, Art. 26(3)(a) | The "fewer than 10 workers" column of the main table; where a cell holds three figures they are the low-hazard, hazardous and very hazardous amounts in that order. |
| In workplaces with ten to forty-nine workers the fine is applied at the same amount for the low-hazard class, increased by fifty per cent for the hazardous class and by one hundred per cent for the very hazardous class; in workplaces with fifty or more workers it is increased by fifty, one hundred and two hundred per cent respectively. | Occupational Health and Safety Law No. 6331, Art. 26(3)(b) and 26(3)(c) | The "10-49 workers" and "50 and above" columns of the main table. |
| Paragraph 3 does not apply to fines imposed by multiplying by the number of workers; where work is stopped, the fine for the act that caused the stoppage is not imposed. | Occupational Health and Safety Law No. 6331, Art. 26(4) and 26(5) | The note under the table and the year column; the amounts are published by year. |
The Turkish table comes from Article 26 of Law No. 6331: paragraph 1 gives the base amount, paragraph 3 the increase by workplace size and hazard class, and paragraph 5 the exception for items multiplied by the number of workers.
Legal basis — European Union
| Obligation | Legal basis | How the tool covers it |
|---|---|---|
| Member States shall take the necessary steps to ensure that employers, workers and workers' representatives are subject to the legal provisions necessary for the implementation of this Directive. | Framework Directive 89/391/EEC, Art. 4(1) | The page's "European Union — penalties by Member State" block: the EU sets no amount, so the table there is country by country. |
| In particular, Member States shall ensure adequate controls and supervision. | Framework Directive 89/391/EEC, Art. 4(2) | The page's "European Union — penalties by Member State" block: the EU sets no amount, so the table there is country by country. |
The European Union does not set penalty amounts: the Framework Directive requires the Member State to put the necessary legal provisions in place and to ensure adequate controls, while the amounts are set by national law.
Legal basis — United Kingdom
| Obligation | Legal basis | How the tool covers it |
|---|---|---|
| It is an offence for a person to fail to discharge a duty under sections 2 to 7, to contravene section 8 or 9, to contravene health and safety regulations or any requirement or prohibition imposed under them, to contravene a requirement imposed by an inspector, and to contravene an improvement notice or a prohibition notice. | Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, s. 33(1)(a)-(g) | The offence column of the page's "United Kingdom — offences and maximum penalties" table. |
| Schedule 3A, which specifies the mode of trial and the maximum penalty applicable to offences under this section and the existing statutory provisions, has effect. | Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, s. 33(2) and Schedule 3A | The mode of trial, summary conviction and conviction on indictment columns of the same table; since 2015 the fine is unlimited for most offences. |
In Great Britain the amount is not fixed to a table: the offence is first sorted by the mode of trial and the maximum imprisonment and fine follow from that.
Legal basis — United States
| Obligation | Legal basis | How the tool covers it |
|---|---|---|
| A civil penalty may be assessed for each wilful or repeated violation; a penalty is assessed for each serious violation and each violation determined not to be serious, and for each day a violation continues uncorrected. | OSH Act, 29 U.S.C. 666(a)-(d) | The violation type column of the page's "United States — OSHA civil penalties" table. |
| The adjusted civil penalties for penalties proposed after January 15, 2025 are: wilful violation not less than $11,823 and not more than $165,514; repeated violation not more than $165,514; serious violation not more than $16,550; other-than-serious not more than $16,550; failure to correct not more than $16,550 per day; posting requirement violation not more than $16,550. | 29 CFR 1903.15(d)(1)-(6) | The minimum and maximum columns of the same table; the amounts are updated every January. |
| The Area Director determines the amount of any proposed penalty, giving due consideration to the size of the business, the gravity of the violation, the good faith of the employer and the history of previous violations. | 29 CFR 1903.15(b) | The note above the page's United States table: the amount does not depend on workplace size or hazard class. |
In the United States the amount does not depend on the size of the workplace or the hazard class: a ceiling is set per type of violation and adjusted for inflation every January.