The Industrial Cases Reports
[2008] ICR 826
Court of Appeal
Smith
v
Northamptonshire County Council
[2008] EWCA Civ 181
2008 Feb 4;
March 11
March 11
Waller, Richards and Rimer LJJ
Health and safety— Employer’s liability— Work equipment— Carer habitually collecting client for day care— Injured pushing client in wheelchair on ramp at client’s house— Whether ramp “work equipment”— Whether “equipment … used by an employee … at work”— Whether employer in breach of statutory duty to maintain—
Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998
(SI 1998/2306), regs 2(1), 3(2), 5(1)