Ogden v Airedale Health Authority

(1996) 7 Med LR 153

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

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Negligence — Employment — Safe system of working — Exposure to x-ray chemicals — Radiographer contracting occupational asthma — Whether defendant employers aware or should have been aware that chemicals contained irritants and posed risk of sensitisation Whether defendants failed to take precautions — Causation — Damages — Heads of damages — Loss of job security — No precedent for such an award Employee's loss of right not to have his employment terminated without compensation — Whether recoverable