An employer's duty of care to provide training does not extend to warning an employee of every circumstance in which a demonstrated work method should not be used, where the employee has been given specific instruction on the safe method and the demonstrated method was not presented as applicable to the circumstances in which the employee used it. The standard of care under ss 42-43 of the Civil Law (Wrongs) Act 2002 (ACT) must be determined on the facts of each case, and the catch-all phrase 'adequate training' should not be used to conflate the separate enquiries of standard and breach.
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