‘persons employed’ where that expression was used in section 60 of the 1937 Act included not only servants of the occupier, but any other person who might be called on to do work in the factory, including a painter employed by an independent contractor.
Lord Goddard CJ said, ‘The test is whether a person is employed in the factory, not whether he is employed by the occupier.’
Citations:
[1956] 2 QB 396, [1956] 2 All ER 722, [1956] 3 WLR 271
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Approved – Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd v Bryers HL 1957
A regular member of a ship’s crew was injured when the ship was in dry dock. The Court of Appeal had held that the Regulations applied even though he was not emplyed by the appellant company.
Held: Affirmed. The power contained in section 79 . .
Cited – McDonald v National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc SC 22-Oct-2014
Contact visiting plants supported asbestos claim
The deceased had worked as a lorry driver regularly collecting pulverized fuel ash from a power station. On his visits he was at areas with asbestos dust. He came to die from mesothelioma. His widow now pursued his claim that the respondent had . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Health and Safety, Personal Injury
Updated: 22 October 2022; Ref: scu.538246
