Accident at Work Compensation: Causes of Injuries

Accident at work compensation is a recompense for the sufferings endured by victims of negligence.

Various kinds of accidents occur in the workplace. Lack of training is one of the most common causes of injuries that affect a number of employees in the United Kingdom. Employees who are untrained, poorly trained and incompletely trained affect the job. The work environment is unsafe when training is inadequate. It lowers the production, increases expenses and loss customers. The purpose of the training is to work efficiently and increase production.

It is the responsibility of the employers to provide sufficient training in using work equipment.

Work equipment is an instrument that is use to carry out a specific task. Workers need to be trained in using power tools, hand tools, electronic equipment, electrical equipment, vehicles, office equipment, lifting equipment, chairs and workstations, cooking appliance, cleaning equipment, access equipment, mobile elevated platforms and manufacturing machinery. Injuries can be sustained if people use the above-mentioned instruments incorrectly.

An employee can be entitled to bring a claim for accident at work compensation in the United Kingdom. A legal advice from the expert is essential in filing a formal complaint.

Importance of PPE

Victims of negligence file an accident at work compensation because of the injuries caused by lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

The purpose of personal protective equipment is to shield people from any hazards in the workplace. These hazards can be physical, ergonomic, chemical or biological. Physical hazards like slips, trips, fall, constant loud noise and vibrations can be risky for individuals. Ergonomic hazards occur when the body is strained from doing a particular task. This includes unsuitable workstation, poor lighting and repetitive movements.  Chemicals hazards are dangerous to one’s health by means of inhalation, eye contact, skin contact and ingestion. Dangerous substance, cleaning products, and office materials should be used and disposed properly so that no one will be injured. Businesses are expected to supply PPE such as respirators, protective clothing, protective gloves, protective footwear and eye protection.

The two kinds of respirators filter the contaminated air and supply clean air from a separate source. Working with fumes, vapors and harmful dusts can be risky to workers and the use of respirators like half mask respirators, full mask respirators and powered respirators are necessary. Protective clothing like overalls, high visibility clothing and life jackets are essential in doing risky tasks.

Accidents at Work: Snowy and Cold

What do you do in this extreme weather condition when it is cold and snowy outside? Are you shivering from cold? Can’t wake up and go to work?

Don’t worry you are not the only one in this kind of situation. Many Britons are having a hard time due to the heavy snow outside. In fact it was reported in the news that a man from Scotland was found dead on the road. He tried to walk home in spite of the severe weather condition. This can be alarming to people especially those who take the public transport.

Bad weather condition like snow or ice can be risky. Workplace can be risky due to the heavy snow that’s why businesses advise their employees to be careful so that accidents at work can be prevented. Well, in any season extra care is needed so that no one will get hurt.

Speaking about work, who says a footballer is only passionate about his job? Not for the case of a professional footballer who was reported in the news that he rescued a stranded team of players. This nice guy helped the players from the freezing condition because the coach they hired that day stopped in the middle of the snowy road. What a good job! A footballer is not only admirable in terms of playing sports but in helping people in times of need.

Thousands of people are really struggling from this weird condition. March is supposed to be springtime in Britain and yet it’s still cold and snowy outside. Power interruption adds stress in this cold season when the power was cut off in the western part of Scotland. Cold and dark – this scenario can be gloomy. As long as you are safe in the comfort of your home, it will be okay. Enough food and family members around can brighten up the cold night. At least this situation is just temporary. Soon the snow will be over and spring will come in. The flowers will bloom again – a mark of a new and hopefully, a safe season.

No Win No Fee Claims and Authority

Understanding Your Lawyer
So long as we are human, we will have quarrels. In most cases, petty misunderstandings can be resolved by sincere apologies and forgiving temperaments. In some cases, however, the conflict explodes into a personal, bitter war that only separation and mutual silence can be the only answer.

In demanding No Win No Fee compensation claims, these same truths hold. In fact, our justice system, as it fixes disputes, can be said to have its rationale for existence in misunderstanding. But what is important for you as a claimant is to understand that you should not be swallowed up by the system. That is to say, just because conflicts are the daily bread of the courts in no way means that you should stoke the dispute you are involved in to a degree higher than it already is. On the contrary, the opposite rule holds: the moment that you make your claim formal, you should beware of making it more difficult to process. Because you have turned to the courts to settle your claims, it has become incumbent upon you to trust on these institutions to do their job. Making the claim harder to resolve by regularly injecting it with venomous slander, for instance, will mean that you do not respect them enough. The same reasoning holds why you should trust your lawyer and defer to his authority.

You and Your Lawyer
A reputation for wit or common sense in no way makes your opinions superior to that of your No Win No Fee claims lawyers. Some people, obviously misunderstanding the mechanics of claiming compensation, erroneously think that all the courts wish to hear from the claimants in order to let them win is a pretty epigram or a subtle inference. These things, while they may beautify legal arguments, are useless if left to their own devices. Claiming compensation is not a contest for literature or for spotting inanities, but a serious, formal, and grave procedure.

Thus, in order to win your case, you will need to defer to the authority of your personal injury lawyer. In particular, this is because of two things. To begin with, he is familiar with all the procedures that the claiming process requires. These procedures cannot be easily learned and take years of meditation to master. Laymen, in other words, cannot be expected to understand them purely by reading about the claiming process on the Internet. Second, aside from having a solid background on legal procedures, only lawyers are equipped with the knowledge of researching the boundless sea of jurisprudence, the source of all precedents, the determining factors in persuading the courts. Without the expert guidance of your lawyer, no matter how well-read you may be in poetry or how famous you may be in speaking at dinner tables, you will flounder in this great body of knowledge pitifully.

Accident Claims and Liberation

Freedom from Guilt
If ever you may want reasons to validate your accident claims, then you should think about how it can relieve you of guilt and trauma. By deciding to file claims and pursue the claiming process, you can banish the nagging feeling of not doing anything at a time when any action from your part could have meant so much because it would have affected your future in no inconsiderable degree.

Filing personal injury claims, in other words, is not just economically helpful but also psychologically necessary. Not many people understand that even if the courts faithfully adhere to our system of tort laws and just consider the legality of honoring or rejecting a particular claim, without reference to non-legal apparatuses, the end result is still that the claiming process tests not only the claimants’ logic and arguments, but also their emotional and mental endurance. Claimants need good arguments to win their cases, but they also need willpower and emotional stability in order to begin the process at all.

Thus, you should consider filing your claims to dispel guilt and shame and not feel bad about using this reason as a starting point. Since the claiming process is a hybrid of economic, mental, and emotional tests, any reason drawn from these three quarters is a valid one to justify wanting to make a claim.

Freedom from Ignorance
For many people, having been injured without their consent is enough motivation to file accident claims. Nevertheless, there are those to whom the idea of demanding payment from others is too vulgar because it can signal poverty or shameful because it will include lawsuits. There are also those, moreover, to whom claiming compensation is not a valid decision at all because it will involve much fear, worrying, and stress.

In case you identify with any of these last three kinds of people, you may change your mind if you consider that filing a personal injury claim after suffering from an injurious accident you did not cause, as opposed to not filing one, can free you from much mental distress because it will satisfy your curiosity of whether or not you are in the right to feel aggrieved. It is only by entering, and moreover, by completing, the claiming process that you can know for certain whether or not you really deserve to be compensated and so are right in feeling vindicated. By completing your claim, you will never have to look back at your injurious accident with a question mark but with a period. Knowing for yourself how things really stand is essential in providing a sense of closure and finality to your controversial situation.

Accident at Work Claims: Health and Safety Statistics

What is the implication of the number of injuries and illness to the growing number of  accident at work claims in the United Kingdom?

It has been reported that 1.1 million working people suffered from illness in 2012. About 173 workers were killed at work and 111,164 employees were injured. The figures are quite alarming. No wonder more and more people are filing for accident at work claims. Employees who were injured in the workplace are pursuing the claim to compensate for the mishap caused by someone else’s fault.

The claimant or the person seeking compensation includes all occupations working as managers, senior officials, professional, administrative and secretarial, personal service, skilled trades. sales and service, and process/plant operatives. These individuals are working in industries such as public administration, education, banking and finance, agriculture and fishing, energy and water, manufacturing, construction, hotels and restaurants, transport and communication, health and other services.

They can seek compensation based on their rights and guidelines of law. The rights of the employees depend on the statutory rights and the contract of employment. Some of the statutory rights of the employees include right to written statement of terms, statutory sick pay and statutory redundancy pay. 

Bringing a Claim

Employees suffer from illness or injury because their employers failed to provide the health and safety requirement of the law. This is the reason why individuals are filing for accident at work claims to bring justice and obtain compensation.

The claim is for victims of negligence who suffers from illness or injury due to someone’s fault. A wrongdoer can be a co-worker or an employer. Employers have a duty to take care of their employee’s health and safety. Failure of the employer to fulfill his duty is considered negligence.

The rights of the employees need to be exercised in the workplace. The right to written statement of terms of employment indicates the job title, wage, hours of work, holiday entitlement, sick pay, pension scheme notice and many others. The contract of employment cannot be taken away from the individual. If a person is injured whilst working, he is entitled to a sick pay. If the employer was negligent due to noncompliance with the Health and Safety regulations, the injured employee can make a claim for the injury incurred at work.

It is necessary to get legal advice from a specialist on work-related injuries. Ask a specialist lawyer and know the details.

A Bedrock Philosophy

Many people can only live their lives happily by subscribing to a bedrock philosophy. Such a philosophy is something that you can ground your life on, a kind of meta-narrative. For example, some people believe that life is a story of good versus evil, a continual battle between God and the devil, with human beings as the prize. For others, life is about progress, where human beings are a part of an ongoing evolution, the end of which is absolute perfection. Another example is the meta-narrative of happiness. In this case, human life is about increasing felicity and decreasing sadness, usually by pursuing hedonistic or spiritual goods. What all of these bedrock philosophies have in common is that they provide people with a sense of why they are alive. It makes them a part of a comprehensible story, one which they can follow from birth and until death, a tale which orients them to reality.

In demanding a work claim, it is usually better to have one than otherwise. In fact, I think it is to help people cope up with stressful situations that bedrock philosophies were invented in the first place. For some reason, it seems to me as if people just cannot accept a reality where there is no visible order. In a world where innocent people are punished, just as culpable people are exonerated, people, too aghast to think that this is the nature of the world, conjured different systems to justify the apparent lack of justice in the world. Think about it. For the religious point of view, an imperfect world is justified because it is not the “real” world, but only a preparation for the “real” one, which comes after death. For the Enlightenment thinkers, imperfection in the world springs from lack of scientific and psychological knowledge, the obtaining of which can lead to its perfection. For the Epicureans, the world is imperfect so as to dare us to make our inner worlds, our appetites and desires, more perfect. The general premise is that the imperfection, the evil, the corruptibility of the world, is there for a good reason.

Thus, in processing your work claim, clinging to such a philosophy can never be wrong. Whether or not the particular one you may be believing in is true or false does not matter so much as whether or not it can help you survive your ordeal.

Purpose of Work Accident Claims

The purpose of work accident claims is to bring justice and seek compensation for injuries caused by someone’s fault.

Accidents can happen in the workplace like in the office, warehouse, and factory. Injuries, occupational diseases, dangerous occurrences and work-related death should be reported and recorded to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrence and Regulations (RIDDOR). RIDDOR provides guidelines on how to report such incidents that may occur in the workplace. It is important to consider few things in reporting such incidents. First, the accident arises whilst a worker is carrying out a task or something related to work. Next, it is caused by machinery, plant or substance. Lastly, the condition of the site or premises during the incident should be checked.

Employees can be injured whilst one is carrying out a task. It can occur while delivering goods, handling or lifting a load, working on heights and arranging the supplies. The use of defective equipment or working with hazardous chemicals may harm the employees. The condition of the workplace can be a hazard to the people working there.

Employees can be entitled to work accident claims. A legal advice can help in seeking compensation for the pain, loss and suffering of the person.

How to Claim

Work accident claims compensate for the injuries sustained due to the mistakes of others.

Three things are essentials in the claim. First, the injury occurred in the workplace. Second, the injury is caused by the mistakes of others. Third, evidence is necessary to show the validity of the claim.

An injury can be physical, psychological or even financial. The injuries sustained by an employee hinder him from going to work and this result to a loss of income. This can be compensated together with the expenses incurred due to the injury.

In seeking compensation, it is necessary to prove that someone is at fault. It can be a co-worker or an employee. A mistake can be due to carelessness, unsafe work practices or lack of training. The employer owes a duty to take care of the health and safety of the people in his premises. Failure to do so entitles the injured person to bring a claim.

Showing evidence can make a strong case. Pieces of evidence are gathered to prove the negligence of the offender. It includes medical statement from the doctor, employment details and testimonies of eye witnesses.

A specialist lawyer provides legal advice on personal injury.