LRD guides and handbook October 2024

Health and Safety Law 2024

“Reasonably practicable” is a narrower term than “physically possible” … a computation must be made by the owner in which the quantum of risk is placed on one scale and the sacrifice involved in the measures necessary for averting the risk (whether in money, time or trouble) is placed in the other. If it can be shown that there is a gross disproportion between them — the risk being insignificant in relation to the sacrifice — the defendants discharge the onus on them.