Safe System of Work in UK Law
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Employment, health and safety
... ... safety obligations at common law 1582 (i) Safe system of work 1582 (ii) Scope of employer’s ... ...
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Implied Duty to Give Information During Performance of Contracts
... ... In the context of health and safety at work, the duty of disclosure of information ... duty to devise a reasonably safe system of work. It would clearly ... ...
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A DUTY TO PROTECT FROM VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR: THE HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK ACT 1974 AND HOSPITAL SECURITY
This paper in the main considers safety of staff within hospitals, although many of the problems faced by staff, particularly nurses, are experienced in a variety of organisations which come in clo...... ... staff to identify the nature and extent of all risks and to provide a safe working environment. This is a question not only of common law but also of ... pro-vide: 1 The provision and maintenance of a healthy and safe system of work. 2 Healthy and safe working en-vironment. 3 Healthy and safe ... ...
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The Doctrine of Identification, Causation and Corporate Liability for Manslaughter
This article examines corporate liability for manslaughter. It considers the legal effect of the ‘identification’ doctrine and how it operates as a legal barrier to potential corporate liability. T...... ... 3(1) and 33(1) of the Health and Safety at Work, etc., Act 1974. Section 3(1) imposes a duty ... , that persons not in his employment are safe. Section 33 creates an offence of non- ... of his duty of care to establish a safe system of work. So, for example, in the Great ... ...
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Law, Labour and Mental Harm
... ... their workers from reasonably foreseeable work- related mental harm. That the law ... provide his employee with a reasonably safe system of work and to take reasonable ... ...
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The Legal Response to Work-Related Fatalities in NSW in 1984*
This article is a study of the response of the legal/regulatory system to all 129 work-related fatalities which occurred in NSW in 1984. Previous research on the response of the legal system has ut...... ... ' This article is a study of the response of the legal/regulatory system to all 129 work-related fatalities which OCCUlTed in NSW in 1984 ... withstand roof falls, but this has not made the process entirely safe. In three cases workers died when storage tanks on which they were ... ...
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General Practice In Industry
... ... for negligent failure to provide a safe system of work, employers frequently ... ...
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Vicarious Liability and Independent Contractors — A Re‐examination
... ... new, flexible forms and patterns of work which depart radically from the standard ... ’ casual workers and worked in a system whereby they were called in to work when ... ,23 proper plant and equipment,24 a safe placez5 and a safe system of work.26 ... ...
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4. “It's Part of the Job”: Violence at Work
In 1986, the issue of violence at work was thrust into the arena of public debate by the disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh and the deaths of three social workers in the course of their duties. These a...... ... Though this particular authority had instituted a formal reporting system after the death of one social worker, residential staff tended not to ... the employer for breach of his implied contractual duty to provide a safe system of work. In practice, a number of difficulties surround this form ... ...
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Supply chains and responsibility for OHS management in the Western Australian resources sector
Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to analyse human resource supply chains and the responsibility of occupational health and safety (OHS) management using Australian evidence from two unrelate...... ... bylegislative requirements to “provide a safe system of work” and to have documentationin ... ...
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