Section Sch5-5 — Health and Safety at Work Act 2015: Meaning of reasonably practicable

5 Meaning of reasonably practicable In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, reasonably practicable , in relation to a duty to ensure health and safety or to protect property, means that which is, or was, at a particular time, reasonably able to be done in relation to ensuring health and safety or the protection of property, taking into account and weighing up all relevant matters, including— (a) the likelihood of the hazard or the risk concerned occurring; and (b) the degree of harm or damage that might result from the hazard or risk; and (c) what the person concerned knows, or ought reasonably to know, about— (i) the hazard or risk; and (ii) ways of eliminating or minimising the risk; and (d) the availability and suitability of ways to eliminate or minimise the risk; and (e) after assessing the extent of the risk and the available ways of eliminating or minimising the risk, the cost associated with available ways of eliminating or minimising the risk, including whether the cost is grossly disproportionate to the risk.