In the line of duty, as an employee, we are often asked to do things that may not form a part of our role specifically. I usually take the post as I can drive past the box to drop it in. I don’t mind as its no skin off my nose!

But what happens when you are asked to do something potentially dangerous? What happens if you do something that at the time may seem fine, but you actually end up injured? Well if you are asked to do something that breaches health and safety regulation, you may be entitled to make a claim for personal injury compensation if you are injured as a result.
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The Occupiers Liability Act places an important duty on those in control of a premises to take all reasonable steps to ensure visitors to their premises are not in any danger. Reasonable steps can be all sorts of things – like risk assessments to stamp out tripping hazards, and making sure there is no way something could fall and injure somebody.

Advertising signs and hoardings, widely used in today’s heavily commercialised society, can actually pose quite a danger if health and safety isn’t considered. We have seen circumstances in the past where:
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A weak floorboard bends inwards; or perhaps concrete in an outdoor area has cracked and is falling inwards due to traffic – a person will not generally notice if there is a dip in the flooring. It’s not easy to spot. But if you walk over it you are liable to either trip or fall if your ankle is twisted or gives way because of the sudden change in the contour of the surface.

So what happens if you are in a shop and you fall because of a dip in the ground? Or perhaps it happens in the workplace? Can you make a claim for personal injury compensation?

Well let’s take a look at the law – starting with public places and then moving on to work accidents as differing laws apply!
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Many industries, particularly for construction, will involve the digging of deep holes, trenches or perhaps caverns. It doesn’t take a genius to understand that it is dangerous to be somewhere exposed to a risk of a hole, trench, or cavern collapsing inwards. You could end up seriously injured or worse…

So what if this happens to you? Perhaps you are in a hole and the walls collapse inwards causing an injury?

There is a general duty to ensure a person isn’t injured in the workplace. So if the accident could have been prevented, you may have a successful claim for personal injury compensation. Here are a few examples that can apply:
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As Christmas approaches, the retailers are going to inevitably load up their stockrooms as much as they can. I know this because the Christmas period is always one for shopping and spending, and I’ve worked in retail and seen just how much stock a large retailer will try and cram in their stockroom!

At the place I used to work at, I can tell you now that it was one huge health and safety hazard. As a college student with no legal experience, I couldn’t have told you that back then. But thinking of it now, I’m surprised more people weren’t injured!
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Our backs are very susceptible to injuries caused by lifting and poor manual handling technique. That’s why there are specific regulations that address the issue of manual handling in the workplace. These are covered in The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992.

The actual legislation for this is simple and to the point. The important part reads as follows:

4.(1) Each employer shall–
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Are you looking to make a claim for personal injury compensation? Where you expecting to get 100% of your payout, only to find lawyers are now talking about taking up to 25% from your payout instead? Or have you just got some paperwork through from a firm who neglected to mention that up to a quarter of your compensation will be swallowed up by them in legal fees?

The reason for the sudden U-turn in lawyers offering 100% compensation is because the government has changed the law on April 2013.

Many law firms are misadvising people because they don’t understand the changes. Some are potentially misleading people with offers like “100% No Win, No Fee” which isn’t actually confirming you will receive 100% of your compensation.
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Normally when a ride goes wrong people end up claiming for a whiplash type injury for a sudden stop or if the ride breaks mid-use and traps people upside down for a while. But according to sources from the BBC, Alton Towers’ brand new £18m Smiler ride has been shut down after wheels fell off and hit four people in the front carriage (source)!

One rider who was hit by debris from the cascading ‘guide wheels’ described the experience as “pretty frightening“. He went on to say “you are at the highest point of the ride and you’ve got all these loops to do and you just think that the carriage is going to come off.”
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Firstly, this is not one of those offers where we give you extra money which basically comes out of the running costs for your claim; leaving you with a potentially rubbish service! In fact, our 110% compensation for you pledge is because of law changes that have increased the general amount of compensation you can recover by 10%.

The Changes

In April 2013, the government stopped lawyers being able to recover all of their fees from the other side. They stopped us recovering a Success Fee and an After The Event insurance premium.
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Building sites are dangerous places; so making sure that health and safety is done right is of paramount importance. That’s why there are usually specific routes for pedestrians or workers to use when navigating a building site, and these are often referred to as Green Routes.

There should, in theory, be no danger to a person correctly using a green route on a building site. But that doesn’t mean that rules will not be broken, or people will fail to follow procedure.
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