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Injury

Employees can develop chronic maladies after years of working in an unsafe environment or as a result of following unsafe working practices. Victims can take legal action and make occupational disease claims for compensation to recover damages for the resultant financial losses and pain and suffering. These ailments may stem from exposure to dangerous chemicals or hazadous working practices. The most significant conditions that give rise to legal action include :-

• hand / arm vibration syndrome
• whole body vibration syndrome
• vibration white finger
• repetitive strain injury
• beat knee bursitis
• allergic contact dermatitis
• occupational asthma and bronchitis
• occupational cancer
• asbestos related diseases
• pneumonoconiosis
• silicosis
• chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

There are a large number of statutes in place to protect employees from harm while at work. The five most significant and frequently used regulations relating to occupational disease claims are :-

1. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992
   These regulations require employers to conduct risk assessments to detect unsafe working practices.
2. The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
   These regulations tackle conditions in the workplace and they endorse the maintenance of the workplace, ventilation, the temperature of indoor workplaces, lighting, cleaning and waste materials, room dimensions and space and the condition of floors and traffic routes.
3. The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
   These regulations require that the need for manual handling operations at work be reduced or removed and if it is not possible to avoid manual handling, a suitable and sufficient risk assessment must be conducted.
4. The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998
   These regulations spell out that employers must provide safe, suitable and efficient work equipment. Proper information and instructions about the use of equipment, protection against risks and training should also be provided to employees.
5. The Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992
   These regulations require employers to provide suitable personal protective equipment to any employees who may be exposed to any risk.

Occupational disease claims must usually be settled or proceedings must have been issued in a court of law within three years of the event causing the injury however many of these maladies take many years to develop following exposure and the latency period that passes before the problem becomes evident can be several decades. The limitation period of three years still applies in these cases but the period does not start to run until the injury is discovered or should, with reasonable diligence, have been discovered.

Our solicitors are all members of the Law Society panel of personal injury experts and are specialists in personal injury compensation claims which are dealt with on a no win no fee basis. Compensation is paid in full with no deductions whatsoever. There is no necessity to finance your claim in any respect and you will not be asked to take out any loan or pay for any insurance. Our claims are guaranteed to be completely risk free. Win or lose there is no charge.