An employer (including a host employer of labour hire workers) is not required to warn of, instruct about, or devise special systems of work for commonplace activities such as moving furniture up stairs, where the activity involves no unusual or unexpected risks and the workers themselves are capable of devising a reasonable system. The system of coordinated step-by-step communication adopted by the workers was held to be reasonable, and the risk of slipping on stairs did not require additional precautions under s 5B of the Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW).
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