Work related Accidents

Every employer has a duty to protect their employees. Employers also have a legal obligation to report any accidents/incidents. Your employer must report accidents in the workplace to the incident contact centre of Health and Safety Executive (HSE). This must be done if an employee has been involved in an accident at work that has resulted in any of the following:

• Death
• Major injuries, i.e. broken arm or broken ribs
• Dangerous incidents i.e. collapse of scaffolding
• Any other injury that stops an employee doing normal work for more than three days
• Disease due to substances/conditions at work

It is the duty of your employer to carry out risk assessment tests to make sure that the workplace is safe. From the results of these risk assessment tests your employer can take care of any health and safety areas that need looking at.

As well as making the conditions in the workplace safe it is the duty of your employer to decide how many first aider’s are needed in the workplace and what sort of first aid equipment and facilities should be provided.

All injuries that occur in the workplace, no matter how small they are, should be reported in the accident book. All workplaces should provide an accident book so that there is a record of any injury that has occurred. This book serves a number of purposes the main two being that if someone has suffered as the result of an accident at work and wish to claim compensation then the details of the accident are documented. Also if an accident has occurred at work, your employer can use the details in the accident book as a guide of how to improve health and safety in the workplace so that the accident doesn’t happen again.

If you have been involved in an accident at work through no fault of your own that has left you with personal injury then you could be entitled to personal injury compensation. Accident Consultant are experts in personal injury compensation and have many years of experience in dealing with compensation claims involving accidents at work.

We have helped people just like you get the compensation they deserve after an accident that wasn’t their fault. Accident Consultant specialise in no win no fee claims. A no win no fee claim means that you keep 100% of the compensation that you are awarded with your employers insurance covering all of the legal expenses.