LRD guides and handbook October 2024
Health and Safety Law 2024
In the first, the claimant was injured while carrying out manual handling during a stock take at white goods company Indesit, but the employer’s risk assessments did not deal with stock taking. The employer had also not taken the obvious precaution of providing regular breaks of reasonable length in the stock-taking operation. The claimant had been working all day with just four short breaks. As a result, the court held that Indesit had breached the regulations.