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Employer's Liability - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 1) a co-employee
      - 2) commits a tort
      - 3) while acting in course of employment
  - - - X (A minor) v Bedfordshire CC
        
        Lord Browne-Wilkonson
    - - R v MOD
- - - - ensure advice and training given
      - can extend to off work premises
        
        but not one off incidents on other premises
      - Wilson v Tyneside
        Window Cleaning
      - keep up to date on developing knowledge of safety risks/precations
        
        Stokes v Guest, Keen and
        Nettlefold (Bolts and Nuts) Ltd
        
        McCafferty v Metropolitan Police Receiver
    - - General
        Cleaning Contractors v Christmas
    - - Hudson v Ridge
        Manufacturing Co Ltd
    - - to take reasonable precautions against dangers arising in the
        workplace
      - to give reasonable warnings and training to C to deal with the
        dangers of the workplace
      - to take steps to ensure that the system of work which applies at any off-site workplace is reasonably safe, depending upon all the circumstances
      - Cockram v Commr of Police
      - Latimer v AEC Ltd,
    - - to take reasonable care to provide proper equipment for C
      - to reasonably maintain that equipment in proper order
      - to provide C with adequate instructions in the use of the
        equipment.
      - Mason v Satelcom Ltd
      - Hannington v Mitie Cleaning (South East) Ltd
    - - McDermid v Nash Dredging & Reclamation
        Co Ltd.
  - - - McDermid
  - - - McDermid v Nash Dredging & Reclamation Co Ltd
      - employer may be liable if establishment of safe systems left to contractors
    - - some cases employer may have discharged duty by entrusting task to contractor
      - Davie v New Merton Board Mills
        
        reversed by s 1(1) Employers’
        Liability Defective Equipment Act 1969
        
        employer would be liable “if the defect is attributable wholly or partly to the fault of a third party”