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This is one of the most common questions I hear here at The Injury Lawyers – you’ve been injured in an accident through no fault of your own, and you want to know if you have the right to make a claim for compensation.
The answer is simple – find out by calling us today, and we can usually tell you within minutes if you have a claim or not. However, if you are not quite sure about calling us yet (although there’s nothing to worry about – our advice is on a no obligation basis, and we certainly don’t bite!), read this little help article for you below and we may be able to answer some of the questions you have relating to whether you have a claim for compensation of not.
When Can You Make a Claim for Compensation?
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Workplace Accidents – What Next?
If you have been injured as a result of an accident at work, you may be entitled to claim compensation. The latest government figures for 2010 show that 147 people were killed whilst at work, and over 121,000 other accidents happened at work that were serious enough to need reporting to the governments Health and Safety Executive.
If you are injured whilst you are at work or because of your work, your employer may be responsible for paying you compensation if they have failed to meet their legal responsibility to keep their employees safe.
In the vast majority of cases, the claim will be dealt with by the employer’s insurance company. It is a legal requirement for all employers to have insurance in place to cover the risk of employees being injured at work.
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At The Injury Lawyers we are proud to say we are experts in the field of personal injury law. We deal only in personal injury law, and we have years and years of experience between our expert injury lawyers.
Each day we get numerous calls with potential new claims and we are extremely happy to look into each potential claim to see if it is something we can help you out with. Our clients are our lifeblood; they are who we work for, and for each and every one we genuinely fight tooth and nail to get them the maximum compensation they deserve.
Over the years we have had some particularly interesting cases and some particularly unusual ones. Today, I will be writing about forklift truck and pallet truck accidents; a category of accident claim that I would class as potentially fairly regular…
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Unsafe Workplace / Unsafe Working Conditions
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again; there really are countless rules and regulations that your employers have to abide by in order to uphold health and safety legislation in the workplace. Ultimately, your employers attitude towards safe workplaces and conditions has a significant impact on someone very important in the firm; you!
Your employer must do everything they can reasonably and practically do to ensure that your workplace and working conditions are safe and hazard-free. This comes down to everything – the floors you walk on, the desks you sit at, the warehouses you carry boxes round, the equipment you use, and the equipment provided to you to assist you to stay safe in your job.
The focus of this blog is the workplace itself.
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Workplace Claims – Risk Assessments & Training
There are loads of different workplace rules and regulations that your employer is legally bound to follow. There are so many in order to fulfil their purpose of protecting employees in the workplace. It is the responsibility of your employer to take all the necessary actions to ensure these rules and regulations are upheld; this is achieved in several ways, namely the two most common methods:
- Risk Assessments
- Training
Risk Assessments
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Forklift Accident Claims and Pallet Truck Accident Claims
As specialist injury lawyers, dealing only in claims for compensation for personal injury accidents, we really believe we have seen it all. There is no accident claim that we will not have a look in to for you to see if we can help out.
One such specific type of accident is those involving forklift and pallet trucks. Normally, these are accidents at work; however, they can be from visitors to warehouses or perhaps at a large cash and carry type store.
But the main question on people’s lips is – do you have a claim for compensation?
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Manual Handling Regulations 1992
Many of us lift things within the work place without even thinking about the consequences – this may result in injuries such as repetitive strains on our bodies.
In the rules there is no specific maximum weight that a person can lift at work. This makes sense as we are all different individuals and the levels that we can push ourselves to vary from person to person.
Ergonomics is described as ‘fitting the job to the person and not the person to the job’.
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Your employer has a duty to make sure you’re safe from the risk of personal injury whilst at work. This obviously includes making sure that you are not injured whilst going about your everyday job, but it also includes protecting you from risks to your long term health.
One common danger, especially in heavy manufacturing and industrial workplaces, is hearing loss. Many people don’t realise that they can claim for damage to their hearing – or they simply put it down to getting older. However, damage caused to an employee’s hearing is very much a personal injury just as any other injury caused by an employer’s failure to protect the health and safety of their employees.
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Accidents at work are one of the most common types of personal injury claims. It is not just people in dangerous jobs or those involving high risk activities who suffer accidents at work. The most common accidents involve ordinary people doing everyday tasks.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is an independent watchdog that monitors job-related health and safety as well as illnesses that are caused by work. The latest figures from the HSE show that in 2000/10, 28.5 million working days were lost because of work-related ill health. 5.1 million of these were caused by accidents at work.
If you have an accident at work, you should make sure that you report the accident using the reporting procedure available in your workplace. Your employer is required to keep a record of any workplace accidents by law. Your employer must also report any serious accident to the HSE.
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What Happens after a Workplace Accident
When we refer to an accident at work, most people think only of a severe incident which has resulted in broken bones or worse – but accidents do not have to be as major as this and can also be psychological as well as physical. If you have had an injury at work, it should be reported to a manager or senior within the company as soon as possible.
It is the responsibility of your employer to ensure that all staff know the health and safety rules within the workplace, and what the procedure is in the event that an accident occurs.
There should be a qualified first aider within the work place who attends to the injury, and unless the business is a very small concern, there should also be an accident book where all injuries occurring within the work place are recorded. Employers are also responsible for reporting certain accidents/injuries to the Health & Safety Officer, and you as the employee have the right to receive sick pay if you are entitled to it.
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