Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)
Employees can still be protected even if their co-workers make a different assessment of the danger and opt to travel to work. In this case, it was irrelevant that some of the prison officers chose to travel on a road closed by the police due to severe weather. What mattered was the genuine and reasonable belief of each officer who decided not to take this risk.
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