Does a defendant have an obligation to prevent a slip and fall on a slippery floor?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Irwin v. O.K. Economy Stores Limited, 1967 CanLII 362 (SK QB):
This likelihood imposed on the defendant, as occupier, the obligation to take some effective measures against the hazards thereby created. It had no right, in effect, to stand idly by and do nothing to protect invitees from damage arising from a wet and slippery floor and then look to the fact that it was slushy outside to exonerate it. Also applying the test suggested, namely, was it possible with some ease for the occupier to have avoided this dangerous condition? As suggested in Campbell v. Royal Bank, supra, cocoa matting could have been laid inside the entrance for people to step on when they stepped off the rubber matting in the entrance doorway.
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