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Probably one of the most consistently underrated obligations of management is that derived from common law. This is enshrined in the phrase — the employer must take reasonable care not to subject his employees to unreasonable risks. This is not surprising because the insertion of a word as imprecise as ‘reasonable’ leaves so many loopholes. The standard of reasonableness cannot, for example, guarantee absolute safety. Some work will always be, to some extent, dangerous, yet if ordinary commercial and industrial life is to continue the work must be done.