Are employers legally obliged to arrange on-the-job health and safety training?
What is the employer’s ‘duty of care’ in the provision of health and safety training? An employer’s duty of care for the health, safety and welfare at work of its employees extends to providing appropriate instruction, training and close supervision. Because employers have a common law and implied contractual duty to take care, any employee injured in the course of employment, as a direct consequence of his or her employer’s negligent failure to comply with that duty, may pursue a claim for damages before the ordinary courts.
