Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)

He appealed against the conclusion that the manual handling operation did not carry a risk of personal injury, given the size, weight and unwieldy nature of the pump. He also argued it was wrong to consider his training and experience in dynamic risk assessment when assessing the foreseeability of risk of injury as this mixed up the question of the existence of risk with the question of how it could be reduced or eliminated.

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