ABSTRACT
Health and safety at work is a common target of criticism by the popular media and by sections the public. But breaches of health and safety law can have highly significant consequences for businesses through financial loss in the payment of fines, loss of production and financial compensation in the payment of damages to their employees who have been injured at work. Similar to British law, the EU health and safety law includes regulations and decisions covering more detailed health and safety issues, such as the regulation on classifying, labeling and packaging of substances and mixtures, which was being progressively implemented into UK law in various stages between December 2010 and June 2017. In the case of Scally v Southern Health and Social Services Board doctors claimed that the board had been negligent in failing to inform them of the benefits they could purchase under their pension scheme, which was now too late for them to apply for.
