Trips and slips in the workplace

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Practice notes

Trips and slips in the workplace

Copyright © 2025 LexisNexis

Published by a LexisNexis PI & Clinical Negligence expert

Practice notes
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This Practice Note considers the position regarding the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, SI 1992/3004 both pre- and post-1 October 2013 and section 69 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (ERRA 2013). The regulations set out employers’ duties relating to buildings and facilities and cover equipment, lighting, flooring and cleanliness. Guidance on which regulations are qualified, for example, by use of the word suitable is provided as well as guidance on construction accidents. Finally, the Practice Note considers the statutory defences available to defendants.

Post-1 October 2013

On 1 October 2013, ERRA 2013, s 69 rewrote section 47 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (HSWA 1974). In relation to accidents occurring at work from 1 October 2013, civil liability no longer arises from a breach of statutory duty unless the relevant regulation provides for it. The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 (W(HSW) Regs 1992), SI 1992/3004 do not provide for civil liability to arise from a breach. In the circumstances, claimant practitioners will

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Any place that is not a domestic residence which is made available to any person for the purposes of work.

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