Posted By Dyfed Rowlands
Can anybody supply me today please with names and dates of case law relating to violent situations e.g. members of public climbing over desks to assault employees.

Regards

Dyfed Rowlands

Posted By Deborah Armstrong
Hi Dyfed

Found the below case on the HSE Site - hope this helps.

Insert "West Bromwich Building Society v Townsend" case into Google - should bring the case details up for you!

Regards,


Debbie


7 An employer's responsibilities under HSW Act s,2 extend to protecting staff from violence. In the decided case West Bromwich Building Society v Townsend [l 9831 IRLR 147, a principal environmental health officer served an improvement notice on the building society requiring the installation of screens to protect staff against attack. Although in the particular circumstances of that case, the High Court found for the Society, in his summing up Mr Justice McNeill stated that protecting staff from violent attack was not out with an employer's responsibilities under HSW Act s.2.