Employer Negligence Compensation Claims
When you’re in a workplace, the law puts certain duties on the business to encourage them to keep you, your colleagues, and anyone else on the worksite safe. It requires them to ‘take all reasonable steps’ to prevent you from suffering harm. Employer negligence occurs when there is a failure in these duties, and people in the UK have a legal right to make a compensation claim in such an event.
They’re also required to inform you about health and safety issues that could affect you, and help you take action to lower the risks to yourself.
These duties don’t just end at direct employees. If you are a contractor, subcontractor, self-employed, or even just a visitor to the site, the business still has to take all reasonable steps to minimise the risk of injury or illness to you.
When Can You Make an Employer Negligence Claim?
If your employer has not done what the law has required to keep you safe, then they are acting negligently. If employer negligence results in you being injured, then you have the right to claim compensation for the injury that results from their negligence.
What counts as negligence is based in a complicated series of laws and results of rulings laid down by courts over the decades, so it is important that you get expert guidance; but don’t worry, when it comes to workplace accidents, we are the experts.
“Do I Keep My Job if I Claim Compensation for Employer Negligence?”
You don’t have to worry about losing your job — your employer cannot sack you for making a claim. You don’t have to worry about the costs either with our no win, no fee * work accident claim offer. If you don’t win, there’s no fee. Call our expert personal injury team today on 01252354433^ and we can help put things right.
What Does Your Employer Need to do to Minimise Workplace Risks?
Before any work is done, your employer should carry out risk assessments to determine the risks you face, and determine what actions should be taken to lower these risks. Your employer is also required to log serious injuries that occur at work.
Where there are risks to you, you should be told about them and be given adequate training to mitigate any potential harm and ensure that you can do your job properly and safely. Your employer should also give you adequate safety equipment to protect you, and ensure that all tools and equipment you use have adequate safety guards installed, as well as being in a proper functioning order.
They also need to display a certificate confirming that they have employer’s liability insurance, to ensure that you are not left out in the cold if you suffer an injury at work.
If you’re not sure if your employer has done everything reasonable to keep you safe, or if you have been given adequate training, you should talk to us about your injury. There are a lot of regulations and other legal requirements that employers are required to follow. If you want to claim, our team can help guide you through these to help determine if employer negligence may be responsible for your injuries.
What Types of Accidents Caused by Employer Negligence Can You Claim For?
When people think of workplace injuries, they often think of the big, life changing injuries in places like factories and construction sites. But it’s easy to forget that even relatively safe office environments can have injuries too, such as repetitive strain injury.
Slips, trips, and falls can happen almost anywhere, and are an extremely common form of workplace injury. Electric shocks can happen in most workplace environments also. Tinnitus and industrial deafness are common in high noise environments like construction and factories, but can also happen in call centres and offices with a lot of phone work.
Regardless of the type of injury, illness, or disease that you get at work, if it is the result of employer negligence, it could result in your employer being required to compensate you in a personal injury claim.
What Are the Compensation Awards for Employer Negligence?
Employees have an automatic right to statutory sick pay if they take more than 3 days off work. For most workers, statutory sick pay it begins on the fourth day off work, and it can be paid for 28 weeks in a year. In addition, you may be entitled to further sick pay, depending on the contract you agreed to when you took up employment. Our team can help ensure you are getting what you are entitled to.
For the injury caused by employer negligence, you can also claim compensation. The goal of compensation is to put you back where you should have been before the accident. This can sometimes be hard to calculate, depending on the workplace injury sustained. It can include lump sum payments, or ongoing treatment payments. It is important to remember that any claim for compensation must be logged within 3 years of the accident. If you have suffered an injury within the past 3 years, please contact our personal injury experts as soon as possible.
What You Should do Before You Claim if Employer Negligence has Caused You Injury.
- Ensure that your injury is recorded in the “accident book” — your employer is required to have one of these, and is required to list all accidents that result in at least 3 days off work.
- If your injury was a very serious, such as the following, then ensure that your accident is reported to the Health and Safety Executive:
- serious burn
- fracture
- amputation
- A dangerous incident, like gas or a scaffolding failure
- a disease
- resulted in you not being able to work for more than seven days
- Call us, and together we can explore the right options for your employer negligence claim.
What Will We Do When You Call to Claim?
When you talk to us, we’ll take some information from you about the injury, and the circumstances that lead to the accident. We’ll need to know when the accident occurred, the details of any witnesses there may have been, and any medical reports or certificates you’ve had from your doctors. If you have anything showing other expenses, such as proof of lost earnings or any other out-of-pocket expenses, we’ll need to see those too.
Depending on the situation, we might have to consult some medical experts, and have them look at your injuries too so we can get a full assessment of the situation.
Once we have a full picture, we’ll be able to give you guidance as to if we think you have an employer negligence claim, your chances of success, and how much we think you will win in compensation. We’ll liaise with your employer and their legal team to find a settlement that you will be happy with.
In some rare cases, we do have to take a case to court. This can be intimidating, but we are skilled in pursuing litigation and will do our best to ensure that you get the compensation you deserve. We’ll inform you if we think this is the right course of action, and what we think your chances are.
Contact Our Accident Claim Specialists Today
Call us on 01252354433^ to discuss your personal injury claim, or if you would like to contact Accident Claims UK online, please complete our enquiry form. We’re here to help.
