Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)

Mr Stark, a member of the CWU communication workers’ union, suffered serious injuries when the brake stirrup on the bicycle he had been provided with snapped, throwing him over the handlebars. The Court of Appeal ruled that the regulations imposed an absolute duty and, since the bicycle broke, the employers must have been in breach of this. (However, see the change to the law set out on page 5.)

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