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For many offices, the most dangerous area of the premises can be the kitchen/canteen. Food and liquid are likely to be spilled on the floor causing slip or trip accidents which falls within the scope of an accident at work.
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Warehouses can be inherently dangerous places to work in which is why health and safety in such places needs to be of paramount importance to both staff and employers. I’ve worked in warehouses myself so I’ve seen what can potentially go wrong – and with my years of service in the personal injury claiming world, I have spoken to many warehouse accident victims in my time.

So where do you stand if you are hit by a falling object in a warehouse?

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People are often a little put off by the thought of having to sue their employer. That being said, we live in an age now where compulsory insurance allows people the right to take action and make a claim for personal injury compensation where they are genuinely injured through negligence.

We have rather stringent health and safety regulation in the UK which helps to keep accidents and fatalities in the workplace down – so where there is a breach, you should always make a claim if you are injured and entitled to.

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Pipes – perhaps not one of the first things you think of when it comes to dangers in the workplace. But you’d be surprised as to how many claims we have taken on and won that involve simple things like pipes in the workplace.

They can pose a real danger in the workplace – let’s look at some examples and how your employer may be in breach of important health and safety legislation.

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Work yards can be dangerous places. By this I’m talking about haulage yards and factory or distribution yards where goods are normally loaded on to vehicles for transport.

In this article we will look at some rules and regulations for employers and employees when it comes to conduct in such a yard to ensure no one is injured. From people being hit by wagons or tugs to accidents when loading goods on to vehicles, there are many dangers that need to be addressed.

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Bin men are often wrongfully snubbed by society when in reality they perform one heck of a valuable job. But it’s also a potentially dangerous job, and we are more than used to taking on and winning claims for personal injury compensation for refuse collectors injured in the line of duty.

Whether you’re employed directly with a local authority or to a privately outsourced company, or even when you are an agency worker contracted to a company or council, you have rights!

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There should always be provisions in place to ensure that employees are not injured by falling equipment or machinery. Of course, these kinds of accidents are often serious – leaving the victims with either severe or fatal injuries.

Health and Safety for this kind of thing is strict as it should never be allowed to happen. Let’s take a look at when an employer can be negligent in this kind of scenario.
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I’ve worked in pubs and bars before – in the busy periods, it can be a rushed and occasionally stressful experience. There’s nothing worse than a crowded bar full of people all waiting desperately to be served their poison.

That, and the fact that places like these are often full of intoxicated people, means that there can be many hazards involved in working in this trade. So let’s take a look at some examples and the law when it comes to an employee’s rights to make a claim for personal injury compensation.

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Whilst you’d think that falling injuries are the most common when it comes to accidents for workers, another really common one is when boards and platforms for walking on are unstable or defective. We have won many claims for compensation against employers and scaffolding companies where someone has stepped on a dodgy board and has either fallen through it or part of their body has gone through.

If this has happened to you, what are your rights when it comes to making a worker’s compensation claim?

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The idea behind The Manual Handling Operations Regulations is to avoid the need for any kind of lifting in the workplace as much as possible. Equipment is a great way of eliminating potentially dangerous manual handling activities – but what happens if that equipment is broken and is taken away?

What happens if you are then forced to carry out manual handling activities as a result of the equipment that is used to eliminate the need for manual handling suddenly becoming unavailable?

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