Accidents at work
If you have been involved in an accident whilst at work, you may be entitled to compensation.
Whilst you are at work, you are under the care of your employer and they have a duty to provide you with a safe place of work, a safe system of work and safe work equipment. Therefore your employer should provide you with proper training for the job you are doing, adequate and safe work equipment, a safe way of doing your job and with colleagues that are competent at doing their job.
Injured at Work?
If your employers neglect their duty towards you, and you are injured at work as a result of their negligence, you are entitled to make a claim against your employer's insurance policy for compensation for your injuries. For example, your accident may be caused by inadequate or defective work equipment or by a lack of training.
You may also have a potential claim if your accident does not occur at your employer's premises, for example, if you are a contract cleaner, working on a construction site or driving a lorry or van. Your employer still has the same duty regarding a safe place of work, safe system of work and safe work equipment.
Work Injury Claim
Even if you are self-employed you may have a potential work injury claim if your accident occurs due to the negligence of the party who has overall responsibility for the premises where you are working, namely the party who has overall control of the building site where you are working, or the owner of the premises that you are cleaning. The test is whether the party who has control over your working environment has neglected their duty towards you and therefore has caused your accident.
You can also claim for any financial losses that you have incurred as a result of accidents at work, such as a loss of earnings while you are unable to work due to the injuries you sustained, or travel expenses incurred whilst attending your GP, physiotherapist, or hospital.
Case Study
The claimant was working as a printer in an area with ten printers, some of which had mats in front of them. The floor underneath the mats was grey-painted concrete and it's understood that the mats were to protect the paint from wear, tear and spillages. The claimant had turned to put some printed paper on a table behind him. As he was turning back to the machine to reload it, he caught his foot in the matting....
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