What is an employer’s duty to provide a safe system of work?

[35] Stratton J. commented on an employer’s duty in Shebansky v. Kapchinsky (1981) 28 A. R. 451 at paragraph 19: “The duty of an employer, however, may be stated more generally than simply to provide a safe system of work. It is to take reasonable precautions to safeguard his employees from injury. This duty also includes the requirement to issue proper instructions where instructions might reasonably be thought to be required to secure him from danger of injury.”

[36] I endorse the comments of Bray J. in Cribb v. Kynoch Ltd., [1907] 1 K. B. 548, at page 558: “The proposition of law laid down in those cases is one which has been clearly established—namely, that it is the duty of the master to warn young and inexperienced persons of any danger that existed in relation to the work in which they are employed.”