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Accidents at work are common and it is important to remember that your employer has a duty of care to ensure that you do your job as safely as possible. Your employer is required to carry out a risk assessment and take action to protect your health and safety. Failure to do so is likely to give rise to a claim for compensation.
All employers are obliged by law to have insurance to cover them if an employee is injured whilst at work and are not legally allowed to discriminate against employees or dismiss them simply because they are pursuing a legitimate compensation claim for accident injuries against the firm.
It is an employer’s legal responsibility to provide a safe place and system of work, competent fellow workers, suitable protective clothing and equipment, safe machinery, adequate training and supervision and warnings about any risks involved in the job being done.
You may have a claim for compensation if you have suffered an injury whilst at work even if:
- You were partly to blame.
- A colleague was at fault.
- You are classed as self-employed.
- The person or company at fault is not your employer, but an independent contractor.
- The accident occurred away from your employer’s premises.
Work accident claims are extremely wide ranging and include injuries caused by faulty or dangerous machinery, slips or trips on debris or wet surfaces, unsafe steps or ladders, poor lifting or manual handling techniques, exposure to harmful substances, attacks by patients or customers, inadequate ventilation or careless co-workers.
We have the specialist expertise to deal with all types of accident at work and are dedicated to helping employees pursue their rights and to raising safety awareness amongst employers in order to avoid similar accidents happening again.
If you think that you may have a claim for compensation for injuries caused by an accident at work, even if you feel that you were partly to blame, please contact us for free advice without any obligation to proceed.
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Offices
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Building sites
Off site
Defective machinery
No or inadequate protective equipment
Lack of training
Poor systems
Careless fellow workers |
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