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 ...
