31 May 2012
Blair v Chief Constable of Sussex Police [2012] EWCA Civ 633, [2012] All ER (D) 135 (May)
A structured approach to the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992, (SI 1992/2966) was required. It was first necessary to identify the risk of injury, and then to ask if the equipment in fact provided was, so far as practicable, effective to prevent or adequately control that risk. It was only if the equipment was effective or it was not practicable to make it effective that there was any need to consider whether the equipment was appropriate within reg 4(3)(a) or to take account of ergonomic requirements or the claimant’s state of health within reg 4(3)(b).
