Duty of care?

daffodil · Post by **daffodil** » 31st Jul, '13, 20:04

A third army reservist has now died following a selection / training exercise earlier this month. Got to be some serious duty of care questions methinks.

Tragic for their families and friends.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013 ... on-beacons

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 31st Jul, '13, 22:34

There's just been a landmark ruling in the UK regarding the armed forces:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... uling.html

The ruling is that families of British soldiers killed overseas can sue the Ministry of Defence if their relatives died because of poor equipment or negligence. I'm not sure if this applies to training in the UK, but yes, some Duty of Care is required. I know the weather was extreme at the time, but there should have been some contingency for such occasions.

T2K · Post by **T2K** » 2nd Aug, '13, 14:56

I would think that, if one stretches it far enough, there will always be some equipment problem or negligence (particularly of the "hindsight is 20/20" sort).

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 3rd Aug, '13, 00:58

And there will always be occasions that a government needs to put people in harms way. Otherwise every government in the world will have to stop governing.

sgsavvy · Post by **sgsavvy** » 3rd Aug, '13, 08:56

Fat Bob wrote:And there will always be occasions that a government needs to put people in harms way. Otherwise every government in the world will have to stop governing.

I totally agree with you. In everything they do there will be some risk or tradeoff involved. so i guess the issue is who they handle the situation when they get drawn the shorter stick.

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