The commercial kitchen is by its very nature an environment that contains myriad hazards for the unwary worker. The question you should therefore ask yourself is whether or not you were an unwary worker at the time the accident happened, i.e. an employee whose employer had neglected to make you aware of the workplace hazards and tell you how all the health and safety risks were controlled and your role in helping to control them. If your employer had failed to give you adequate health and safety training or failed to ascertain whether or not you were skilled enough to undertake the tasks allocated to you, you might be able to bring a claim for compensation.
If you had received the necessary health and safety training, but your employer had failed to put in place the necessary control measures to eliminate or reduce certain risks in the kitchen and you had an accident or suffered an injury as a result, you might be also be eligible to make that claim. For instance if you had seriously cut your non-knife holding hand during a meat preparation process because you hadn’t be supplied with a de-boning glove to protect your hand or your employer had failed to install a safe floor covering and as a result you had to walk over an uneven or unsuitably slippery surface which caused you to slip, trip or fall and injure yourself.
Specialist workplace accident solicitors are experts at being able to piece together all that information about your training, workplace conditions and the nature of your accident and rapidly assess whether or not you have grounds for bringing a claim for workplace injury compensation. In order to give you the go ahead, they are looking to able to demonstrate three crucial things, namely:
1. That you weren’t to blame for your accident.
2. That you employer breached their duty of care to ensure as far reasonably practicable your health, safety and welfare at work.
3. That this neglecting of their duty of care caused or contributed to you having an accident that could have been reasonably foreseen.
If each one of those criteria can be satisfied there is a strong likelihood that you would be able to make a claim for compensation against your employer. Not a happy situation, granted, but absolutely your right if someone else’s negligence has resulted in you suffering injury.
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