A labour hire employer whose employees are required to work at multiple third-party sites must, at minimum, adopt measures by way of warning and/or training to require employees to report dangerous conditions and seek instructions. The fact that it is impracticable for the employer to inspect every site does not relieve it of this obligation. A single backward step on an inherently dangerous surface without particular attention to the surface does not constitute contributory negligence where the plaintiff was not negligent in undertaking the activity. A buffer for future economic loss is appropriate even where the plaintiff had engaged in virtually no remunerative employment prior to the injury.
The full text is available to signed-in members, including the 57 later cases that cite this judgment.
16 of the 57 citing cases carry a classified treatment. How each court treated it is available to signed-in members.