Posts Tagged ‘manual handling’

Your Employer’s Responsibilities for Your Safety at Work

  • September 15th, 2015
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  Your employer is required to take such steps as are reasonably practicable to ensure your safety and well-being while you are working for them. This obligation applies even if you are sent off site or are required to drive for a living,…

Accidents will happen – claim for an accident at work.

  • November 3rd, 2012
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A recent survey showed that people who work in heavy industry and off-shore fishing are more likely to have an accident than most; you have to ask who commissions these reports. Surely common sense says that if you spend your…

Claim for lifting accident/manual handling at work

  • September 4th, 2012
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If you are injured as a result of a manual handling accident you can look to claim compensation for your injuries and losses. But what is a manual handling accident? If you have had an accident at work that involved…