Cases in point

摘要

In this article we look at those cases that underpin some of the basic health and safety duties, including an employer's duty of care and responsibility for creating a safe system of work. In a future article we will return to the case law in element A9. Negligence was defined in the case of Blyth v Birmingham Waterworks (1858) as: the omission to do something that a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do. or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.