If you get injured in an accident at work, the onus is on your employer to record the accident details in the company’s accident book. A business with over ten employees must keep an accident book and record workplace accidents. Most companies of whatever size usually maintain an accident book, ...
It’s easy to think of accidents at work just happening in factories or other industrial settings. Perhaps this is because health and safety regulations weren’t always what they should have been concerning ‘heavy industry’ in previous years. For instance, new asbestos disease claims are started every day because of asbestos ...
Every employer owes his employees a duty of care to take all reasonable steps to protect their health and safety while at their workplace and doing the job they get paid to do. In practice, this translates to a requirement to provide employees with: A safe system of work, Safe premises ...
An accident at work is when you, as a worker, are the victim of an unintended incident that causes you injury, which happened at your place of work or elsewhere whilst you were carrying out work-related duties, e.g. You slip on a wet floor in your workplace. You cut your ...
Asbestos that isn’t disturbed does not pose a threat to health. If it is left alone in the fabric of a building, in theory it isn’t going to emit its fibres into the air. If asbestos becomes damaged or starts to decay, this ‘disturbs’ it, and asbestos dust could become ...
Heavy exposure to asbestos generally comes through working with it i.e., through cutting, sawing, tearing or drilling asbestos. Exposure then comes through inhaling the clouds of asbestos fibres that become airborne, as a result. As previously explained, asbestos was banned from use and import in two stages (1985 and 1999) ...
It would be logical to think that deaths from asbestos disease are a thing of the past or very much on the wane, at least. That thought could not be further from the truth. Mesothelioma still kills approximately 2500 people in the UK, every year. Asbestos related lung cancer kills ...
Even if you smoke or have smoked, you should not be put off from trying to make an asbestos related disease claim. The combination of smoking and asbestos illness can make proving an asbestos compensation claim more complicated than is the case with non-smokers. For instance, in the case of ...
How long an asbestos claim will take will depend on a lot of different factors, including: The type of asbestos disease that you have. How easy it is to connect with your former employer/s and their insurers. Whether liability is disputed. How easy or otherwise it is to put together ...
Call Mooneerams on 029 2199 1927 for informal, initial legal advice from our specialist asbestos disease solicitors. If you would prefer us to call you back, simply leave your contact details on the online form at the side of this page and we’ll call you back or you can leave ...
