Taylor v City of Glasgow Council, 2002 SLT 689
Citation: Taylor v City of Glasgow Council, 2002 SLT 689
Rule of thumb: If you get injured at work whilst lifting an object is this a claim? Sometimes. If it was something light, no. If you can prove that it was objectively awkward or objectively heavy, and there could have been training or precaution to mitigate the risk, then, yes, it is a claim. However, you need to be able to point to a health & safety document affirming that what was done was dangerous or else you could lose the claim.
Judgment:
‘This scheme cascades down partly through the Management of the Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992 and partly by way of the Manual Handling Directive, into the manual Handling (Operations) Regulations 1992’, Lord Carloway
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