Horton v Taplin Contracts Ltd

Subject Matter

HEALTH AND SAFETY — Employer’s liability — Suitability of equipment — Claimant injured when scaffolding tower provided by employer upset by deliberate act of fellow employee — Whether employer's duty to provide suitable and stable equipment to be assessed by reference to foreseeable risks — Whether tower safe for “any person at work there” — Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1992, regs 5, 20 — Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996, reg 5

[2003] ICR 179