You can claim injury compensation for any workplace accident that wasn’t your fault and the fault for which can be laid squarely at the feet of your employer. For instance, in respect of a business that manufactures, uses, stores or transports hazardous chemicals, the employer has a legal duty of care to ensure that no harm comes to their employers as a result of their employment and take all reasonable steps to reduce risk by:
• Undertaking risk assessments and removing or reducing as far as possible the hazards addressed in those assessments.
• Supplying personal protective equipment and training on how and when to use it.
• Monitoring the exposure to chemicals within the workforce.
• Testing the engineering controls in place to eliminate or reduce chemical injury risk, such as gas, vapours and fumes extraction equipment, on a regular basis.
• Responding to complaints and reports from employers in an effective and timely manner.
The employer’s duty of care extends still further than the responsibilities listed above and includes such basic health and safety requirements as adequate lighting, safe surfaces to walk on, provision of stair rails and guards, adequate lifting and moving equipment, first aid provision and adequate staff training. If an employer fails in his duty of care or other mandatory health and safety obligations, for instance if an employer fails to instruct an employee to wear respiratory protection when undertaking work in the course of which he would encounter toxic chemical fumes (which the employer might also have failed to have had extracted) and that employee as a consequence suffers a serious chemical injury due to inhaling those fumes, the injured employee might be able to make a claim for chemical injury compensation.
Sometimes the accident, injury, cause and whose fault it was can take considerable experience and expertise to investigate and sort out and this is where the specialist work injury compensation solicitor comes into his or her own. Experienced and expert in their chosen field, they can quickly gather and assess the pertinent facts to determine whether or not it would be possible for the injured employee to make a compensation claim. If you suffer a chemical injury at work, it is almost certainly in your best interests to contact a specialist legal professional as soon as possible, especially bearing in mind that chemical injuries can run the whole gamut from varying degrees of occupational contact dermatitis all the way through to full depth burns and cancer and serious cardio-vascular, neurological or digestion problems.
Thinking of Claiming Chemical Injury Compensation? Contact us now
If you sustain a chemical injury through no fault of your own, you could be entitled to claim compensation for your pain, suffering and financial loss.
- For advice on how to claim compensation, call our specialist compensation solicitors on 0800 1404544, or
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