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Areas being worked on by local authorities or maintenance agencies can always be dangerous. Holes in the ground could be a serious hazard, as well as exposed cables or bits of concrete and / or building materials, being a tripping hazard.

Generally the people doing the work will deploy cordons and cones to prevent people inadvertently accessing those areas and injuries themselves; which brings me on to the most common types of accident claims involving road or street works.
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There are loads of workplace health and safety regulations that employers must abide by to ensure that you as an employee do not end up injured in the line of duty. When it comes to conveyor belts, this falls within the realms of work equipment which is covered by specific regulations called The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998.

When it comes to this particular blog, we are looking at two main areas: access to dangerous parts of machinery, and emergency stop controls. As it happens, the regulations are so thorough that there are specific sections dedicated to each of these scenarios:
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Common sense would dictate that wires should never be in places where people could trip over them – i.e. traffic routes, or generally where people will need to access. So what happens if you do trip over wires at work and you are injured as a result? Are you entitled to make a work injury compensation claim?

Your Rights

Your employer has to abide by a lot of health and safety rules and regulations that are designed to protect employees from being injured in the line of duty. When it comes to tripping claims, The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 has a specific section dedicated to the condition of floors. Regulation 12 (3) states:
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This is kind of like asking “how long is a piece of string“, I’m afraid. But here are some quick facts and some important warnings you need to read about whiplash claims for personal injury compensation:

• Insurers will normally offer between £500 to £1,500 if you try and deal directly and / or without medical evidence.
• Statistically, the average minor whiplash claim settles for £2,500 with a solicitor.
• Research has proven that claiming with a lawyer means you generally get up to four times more compensation. So don’t deal directly with insurers!
• Most people will fall within the legal bracket of a minor whiplash and this bracket is generally between £1,000 – £5,000.

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As the weather gets colder, the roads are set to become more and more dangerous as Britain is (apparently) going to be facing one heck of a winter. That means ice on the roads making driving conditions perilous, and snow that will probably bring our country to an unnecessary standstill as it always seems to do!

Anyone who is a capable driver knows to take extra care in icy and snowy conditions because skidding is a real risk. If you hit a patch of ice, you will very likely lose control of your vehicle and regaining control of it may be completely impossible.
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Love them or hate them, supermarkets are an accident hotspot, and our expert team here at The Injury lawyers are more than used to getting calls from people wanting to start a claim for personal injury compensation having had an accident in Asda.

So what are your rights when it comes to making a claim for compensation from Asda? Is it even possible to take on one of the largest supermarket giants in the world?
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Did you know that there is a specific regulation that addresses the condition of walkways and traffic routes in the workplace?

You do now! Regulation 12 of The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 specifically places a duty on an employer to:

(1) Every floor in a workplace and the surface of every traffic route in a workplace shall be of a construction such that the floor or surface of the traffic route is suitable for the purpose for which it is used.
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A fall on stairs can be, for rather obvious reasons, very serious and potentially devastating when it comes to injuries and losses that can be commonly associated with these types of accidents.

It can be bad enough having a general slip, trip or fall but ending up down a flight of stairs is likely going to be much more serious.

So what can you do if you have injured yourself due to a defect or a hazard on some stair? Perhaps one of the following has happened to you:
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It’s that time of year where the insurers will prey on victims of accidents and push them to settle too early and directly without a solicitor because Christmas is here and everyone could use a little more money over the festive period. Even our clients get a massive surge of pre-medical offers, which are offers to settle claim without medical evidence.

It’s tempting to take the common £1,000 now rather than wait a few more weeks and settle a claim the proper way.
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Traffic in Derby around the Markeaton roundabout is being seriously delayed after an accident involving a lorry and a Nissan Micra earlier this morning.  This is on my usual route to work; as I attempted to join the A38 the whole carriageway was blocked by a two trailer lorry with the rear trailer having tipped over across the lanes. According to sources from the Derby Telegraph no one was badly hurt.

But it got me thinking about roundabout accidents once again, as I have had plenty of near misses (none my fault!) myself when drivers cross lanes and pull out in front of you. And although, thankfully, no one appears badly hurt in this incident, it got me thinking about the “what if’s” in a situation where vehicles are involved in a serious accident on a roundabout.
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