The Industrial Cases Reports
[2009] ICR 734
House of Lords
Smith
v
Northamptonshire County Council
[2009] UKHL 27
2009 Feb 4;
May 20
May 20
Lord Hope of Craighead, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Carswell, Lord Mance, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury
Health and safety— Employer’s liability— Work equipment— Carer regularly 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)