Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)

These should enable employees to stop work and immediately proceed to a place of safety in the event of being exposed to “serious, imminent and unavoidable danger”. In Harvest Press Limited v McCaffrey 1999, the tribunal ruled that an employee was entitled to leave the workplace because of a co-worker’s abusive behaviour.

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