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Owner And Occupier Of Warehouse Owes Statutory Duty To Provide Safe System Of Work To Contractors' Employees:The Court of Appeal held that pursuant to regulations 4(2)(c) and 17 of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, the owner and occupier of a warehouse owed a statutory duty to provide a safe system of work to employees of its contractors. On the facts, whilst the workplace owner could not tell the contractors' employees how to do their work, it had both the right and ability to control the way in which such employees moved around the warehouse.
