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When it comes to hand arm vibration syndrome (or HAVS / vibration white finger), as an industrial disease case, it usually comes down to what preventative measures your employer could have put in place, and whether you had made complaints about problems and symptoms.

The Control of Vibration at Work Regulations states that your employer must ensure you do not breach the daily exposure limit value and / or exposure action value. But when you make complaints that go unheard, you may have a very good chance at winning your claim.
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One of the most common ways people are injured by workplace machinery and equipment is because of a lack of adequate guards. A lot of machinery and equipment have moving parts which is why they need to be guarded to protect employees from being injured when using them.

So what happens if you are injured at work because someone removed a guard from a piece of machinery or equipment?
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Work regulations are important as they put an appropriate duty on an employer to provide certain safety equipment and clothing to their workers. Gloves are one of the most common forms of equipment, but the duty to provide gloves doesn’t just stop there.

Employers must make sure that protective clothing is not going to result in any other sort of accident, which in this case can be caused by the material of a glove getting caught.
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Large equipment – cranes being a classic example – can pose a great deal of danger to employees at work. That’s why the U.K. has such stringent health and safety laws to protect workers from harm.

But when the law is ignored and regulations are breached, people can be injured. As work injury law specialists, we are certainly no stranger to incidents involving injuries caused by cranes.
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CNC – Computer Numerical Control – machines are designed to not only be more efficient, where less skilled workers can operate them and less workers are required, but they are also supposed to be safer. When safety is automated, the idea is that there should be little room for error. Yet time and time again, employers defeat or disable safety mechanisms and expose workers to injury.

This should never happen, so if it does, the victims are entitled to seek the justice they deserve.
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Workplace health and safety regulations say that employers must ensure that their workers are not exposed to falls from fragile roofs or dangerous traffic routes. This means that a worker should never end up falling through a fragile roof, which can be anything from an area with skylights; false ceilings; damaged or worn areas; etc.

So if you have fallen through a fragile roof during work your employer may be in breach of the law which means you may be eligible to claim for work injury compensation.
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Fatalities at work are of course truly awful. We represent the families for cases and its never easy – especially when we live in a country where health and safety is deemed as generally very good.

Official statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have confirmed the number of fatalities between April 2014 and March 2015. The figure is slightly up on last year, but the trends of the UK as a safe country continues to improve.
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A roll cage is normally classed as work equipment which means that it is subject to The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations. These regulations put in place several duties on an employer to take steps necessary to ensure their staff are not injured when using roll cages.

So for this article we will take a quick look at the applicable legislation to give you an insight in to the law for roll cages and whether you may have a claim for work injury compensation if you are injured when using a roll cage.
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Repetitive strain cases can be very difficult to win for several reasons. Proving that your employer has actually breached the law can be difficult, but even harder than that can be proving that injuries are caused as a result of the repetitive action as opposed to being the victim of general wear and tear.

It can be a complex area of law and there are some inexperienced lawyers out there who are not qualified enough to represent you for this sort of case. Read on for a further insight.
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In today’s technological age there are loads of workplaces where cables will be plentiful through a range of industries throughout the UK. If I look around my desk now I can see the keyboard, mouse, phone, Ethernet and several power cables all running down the back of my desk. They are, of course, safely out of the way; we wouldn’t get very far as an injury law firm if we failed to follow basic health and safety legislation now, would we?

But many workplaces are too lapse in their following of the rules and accidents involving loose cables in the workplace can be plentiful.
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