CDM 2015 - defining 'reasonably practicable'

摘要

Aside from being a practising structural engineer - domestic work only - I am also a practising safety consultant. Contrary to Verulam's comment on Alasdair Beal's letter (November 2015) there is nothing nebulous about the concept of "as far as reasonably practicable". Lord Justice Cyril Asquith's celebrated definition in the case of Edwards v NCB (1949) CA KB has more than stood the test of time: