Health and safety at work

In Deary v Mansion Hide Upholsteries Ltd (The Times, 28 March 1983), the company owned a factory in which polyurethane foam was stored. Section 2(1) of the 1974 Act imposes a duty on an employer "to ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of all his employees", and the company had been served an improvement notice alleging a breach of this section. The notice required that the company provide within three month