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From: "Chris Watts" <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] Risk assessment
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 22:42:25 -0000
References: <000701c3c0f8$eee31df0$6501a8c0@ronan>


From: "Christopher Richards" <>
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| We were told that the building had to be cleared because if someone fell
on
| the stairs SOG would be liable. This seems to me to have been a very
small
| risk especially compared with the absolute certainty that I wasted the
train
| fare from Bristol. And I would certainly have been prepared to give a
| disclaimer to that effect.
But for you to be there so also would the staff. Do you expect them to
personally accept such liability? Employment laws require the SoG to provide
a safe working environment - and from what you say it was not so.

Chris Watts


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