Health and safety

Scope of risk assessments

Ms Allison was a driver on London Underground and also a trainer of other drivers. She suffered severe shoulder strain and damage to her thumb as a result of having to use the traction brake controller (TBC) to drive a train.

Allison v London Underground Ltd
 

Scope of ‘reasonably practicable’

Many of the obligations in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 are qualified by the phrase ‘so far as is reasonably practicable’.

EC Commission v UK
 


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