PUWER regulations and “reasonably foreseeable”

Hide v Steeplechase Co (Cheltenham) Ltd and others Court of Appeal The Weekly Law Reports (www.iclr.co.uk) 22 May 2013

The words “reasonably foreseeable” within regulation 4(4)(a) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 were to be construed with care. It was not appropriate to apply the classic common law test as to reasonable foreseeability when determining whether equipment had been “suitable” for the purposes of regulation 4(4).