Did the property owner have time to eliminate the hazard or decrease risks to visitors to the property?
Sometimes, property owners cannot reasonably take care of potential hazards fast enough to protect all visitors to that property. For example, suppose that a spill occurs in one of the back aisles of the grocery store. While employees usually make their way to those aisles several times a day, an employee does not stand in that location all day to wait for potential problems. If a spill occurs, and you slip and fall on it moments later before store staff has had a reasonable opportunity to identify the hazard, the store might not bear liability for that incident.