One of a series of webinars covering the essentials in running and winning employers liability cases in the modern era. Each webinar will focus on the building blocks you need to be successful in these cases.
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require every employer and self-employed person to undertake a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risk to their employees and to those who may be affected by their undertaking.
They are required to do this in order to identify the measures they need to take to control those risks and comply with their duties under health and safety regulations.
After this webinar you will understand:
- How risk assessment works
- How to argue what risks an employer should have identified
- What control measures an employer should have been aware of and could have implemented
- The importance of causation in relying upon a b reach of duty in relation to risk assessment
- Winning cases via the risk assessment duties
- Using the risk assessment duties to argue that harm was foreseeable and to assist in obtaining disclosure
- Understand the importance of causation and the role it plays in a successful risk assessment argument
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This webinar is one of a series of webinars covering the essentials in running and winning employers liability cases in the modern era. Each webinar will focus on the building blocks you need to be successful in these cases.
Full series:
Principles of negligence in employer’s liability
Using risk assessment to win cases
Regulations and duties Post Enterprise Act
The Six Pack Regulations - Part I
The Six Pack Regulations - Part II
Vicarious liability in the modern world
To take up the special offer of booking all six sessions, please visit
https://www.apil.org.uk/training/apil-accidents-at-work-the-essential-series-2026
Vice President, Law Society
Brett is a consultant solicitor with higher rights of audience for all civil proceedings. His specialism is civil procedure with a specific interest in digital change. He also provides training and consultancy services in relation to personal injury, technology and practice development.
He is also the Deputy Vice President Elect of the Law Society of England & Wales. He has been the president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers on two occasions. He is a senior fellow of APIL and chair of the Senior Fellow Appointments Committee. He is involved in decisions in relation to interventions in civil proceedings recently including Belsner v Cam, Ho v Adelekun, and Hassam v Rabot along with judicial reviews by APIL of the fixed recoverable costs rules and the discount rate. He is a past member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee and the current legal expert member of the Online Procedure Rule Committee. He is a director of Medco and a member of the Official Injuries Advisory Group... view full biography