From d24b50bf8f8a10f07ce5df975c960f96551392d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wellspringcp <69349872+wellspringcp@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 06:07:03 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Update 15-04-workplace-health-and-safety.md --- .../15-04-workplace-health-and-safety.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/15-torts-and-coordination/15-04-workplace-health-and-safety.md b/15-torts-and-coordination/15-04-workplace-health-and-safety.md index aec5df4..2aef2d5 100644 --- a/15-torts-and-coordination/15-04-workplace-health-and-safety.md +++ b/15-torts-and-coordination/15-04-workplace-health-and-safety.md @@ -8,4 +8,8 @@ Workplaces should clearly publish risks for positions in detail. Any damages inc ## Using the published list of employment risks to force employers to outlay capital safety. -On the basis of the published list of risks +> [FIXME, EXPERIMENTAL]: This section is very difficult to get right. We want to ensure that employers outlay capital on safety equipment and infrastructure to ameliorate the known risks for the tasks they assign. But we also don't want to mandate that employers must use the absolute most cutting edge method for ameliorating any known risk. The question is, by what means shall we determine when "sufficient" effort/capital outlay has been made to free the employer from liability. + +> [IDEA]: One compromise on this mechanism could be to make employers only liable for known risks that accompany the task which arise from the environment/infrastructure in which the task is carried out; and not those which arise from the performance of the task? This makes it the employer's responsibility to ensure the workplace/environment itself is safe, but leaves the responsibility for safety when carrying out the tasks to the employee. + +On the basis of the published list of risks, the employees filling a position may sue for equitable relief in the form of an injunction against the employer to provide adequate safety, if syuch safety is not provided. this suit does not reward compensation. it is an equitable remedy.