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I think it would depend on the drill etc that’s happening, and also a fair amount of it will land on players’ knowledge of what their employee rights are.

Players will accept a fair amount as part and parcel of being a footballer, their relationships with clubs and coaches will inform a lot of decision making in whether something is actionable or not as well, plus the severity of the situation that results will steer their thinking.

You could put some coaches into training and be absolutely fine, they are maybe recently retired and maintain their fitness by training with the team on conditioning etc, but clubs have a duty of care to the players and that extends to who is involved in training, who assesses their fitness, agrees their physical training plan etc.

Even if you take something like a player coming in and slipping on a freshly cleaned floor, if they’re injured and challenged that the floor wasn’t cleaned properly, Hibs would need to show that whoever cleaned the floor had received appropriate training or had appropriate skills to do it as part of their duty of care.

It is easy to dismiss these things as common practice or just one of those things that can happen, but when something goes wrong and you wind back to how it happened and who’s responsible for it, it can very quickly highlight a lack of care from the employer who hasn’t considered the duty of care implications for the practices - such as letting a head coach who is clearly no longer at the standard of a professional footballer get involved in a situation where he’s challenging and injuring a player. Even on things that are seen as an occupational hazard.
You are way overthinking this.

It is a nonsense claim.