Suppose you are injured in an accident at work because of a colleague’s carelessness. In that case, you can still claim compensation against your employer for your injuries and other losses, such as loss of earnings. This is because of a legal rule, or doctrine, called ‘vicarious liability, which means that an ...
In legal terms, we refer to being partly at fault for an accident as ‘contributory negligence’. A person who makes an accident at work claim (or any other type of claim) may have contributed to their accident because of contributory negligence. If so, it will reduce their compensation, but that ...
You couldn’t make a claim if the accident isn’t anyone else’s fault. However, whilst you may believe that an accident at work may have been your fault, it’s not always the case that it was your fault. Remember, your employer owes you a duty of care – that is, he ...
There are many different ways in which accidents at work happen. Equally, the types of injury people suffer in work accidents vary. If the accident victim is fortunate, they will escape with minor injuries, such as sprains, minor cuts, or whiplash injuries. The less fortunate can suffer broken limbs, burns ...
As mentioned, your immediate concern after being injured in a workplace accident should always be to get your injuries checked by a medic. The first port of call will be the company’s designated first aider, which, by law, every company must have. If you were seriously injured, someone should take ...
Make it known to your work colleagues that you have suffered an accident at work and do so as soon after the accident as you reasonably can. It is essential to do this if you were working alone when the accident happened. Telling your colleagues about the accident will help ...
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 ...
