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I don’t think there are many people out there who enjoy going to hospital (if there are any at all!) – but from time to time we all need to have things done to keep us fit and healthy or help us get back to normal if something awful happens.

But what if something happens that we didn’t expect to happen? What if you went to hospital for some straightforward treatment and ended up with some form of serious injury or adverse problem? Can you make a claim for hospital medical negligence for what has happened?
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A slipped disc can be a very painful injury to sustain. It can lead to a lot of time off work, and a lot of pain and inconvenience as well as potentially future and long term complications. For those of you reading this who have sustained this kind of injury, I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir.

So if you slip a disc in the line of duty at work, can you make a claim for work injury compensation from your employer?
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There are loads of workplace health and safety regulations that employer must abide by. One such regulation specifically covers traffic routes in the workplace which comes under The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992.

Regulation 12 (3) confirms as follows:

So far as is reasonably practicable, every floor in a workplace and the surface of every traffic route in a workplace shall be kept free from obstructions and from any article or substance which may cause a person to slip, trip or fall.
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If you’re walking along in a shop or a supermarket and you are suddenly hit by a stack of shopping baskets, can you make a claim for compensation? It could easily knock you over or cause a nasty injury…

If this happens to you, you may have a claim for personal injury compensation. It depends on how this has happened.

If for example:
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There are loads of health and safety rules and regulations that employers must adhere to in order to ensure their employees are not injured in the line of duty. Generally speaking, if they fail to stick to the rules and an employee is injured, the employee has a right to make a claim for work injury compensation from their employers insurance.

So when it comes to you having to work with sharp edges, perhaps inside a machine or with some kind of cutting instrument, your employer has a duty to provide you with gloves to ensure that you do not sustain an injury.
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Whilst it may sound like something out of a slapstick comedy sketch, falling down an open trapdoor is no laughing matter and can result in serious injuries for the victim involved. You’re liable to break at least one bone, or perhaps end up with significant muscular, tendon, and / or ligament damage. You may end up injuring your back quite badly as well.

In general, the prospects of winning a claim for personal injury compensation for falling down an open trapdoor are good. For a public place like a bar or a restaurant, those in control of the premises must adhere to the Occupiers Liability Act. This means they must take all reasonable steps to prevent someone from being injured.
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Whilst they may only protrude just a few centimetres or less, tripping on a protruding screw, nut, or bolt can easily end up in an injury. So what happens if you are the victim of such an incident? Can you make a claim for personal injury compensation?

To help you, I will split this in to two sections – one for those who have tripped at work, and the other for those who have tripped in a general public area.
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One of the last things you expect when you’re driving along is for something to fall off a vehicle and cause an injury. Perhaps a piece of the vehicle like the bumper comes off, or a bike falls off of a bike rack; or an object falls off the back of a lorry or trailer.

If this happens to you, where do you stand when it comes to making a claim for personal injury compensation?
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In the line of duty, as an employee, we are often asked to do things that may not form a part of our role specifically. I usually take the post as I can drive past the box to drop it in. I don’t mind as its no skin off my nose!

But what happens when you are asked to do something potentially dangerous? What happens if you do something that at the time may seem fine, but you actually end up injured? Well if you are asked to do something that breaches health and safety regulation, you may be entitled to make a claim for personal injury compensation if you are injured as a result.
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The Occupiers Liability Act places an important duty on those in control of a premises to take all reasonable steps to ensure visitors to their premises are not in any danger. Reasonable steps can be all sorts of things – like risk assessments to stamp out tripping hazards, and making sure there is no way something could fall and injure somebody.

Advertising signs and hoardings, widely used in today’s heavily commercialised society, can actually pose quite a danger if health and safety isn’t considered. We have seen circumstances in the past where:
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