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Depending on the type of industry you work in, workplaces can be very dangerous. If you work with machinery or plant equipment for example, the potential dangers involved are numerous. For this reason, health and safety rules and regulations for the use of machinery and equipment at work are numerous.

If you work with machinery and equipment, your employer is responsible for training you as well as supervision of its use; and inspecting and maintaining machinery and equipment to ensure that it is continually safe to use. Machinery and equipment must be safe to use at all times – so appropriate guards, rails, or emergency stop buttons should be in place at all times to ensure no one is harmed through the use of the equipment.

If you are injured at work due to machinery and equipment, you may be covered for compensation with your employers insurance if the accident was caused through no fault of your own. Unfortunately, injuries involving machinery and equipment can be often significant – so you need to make sure you have a specialist personal injury lawyer representing you for your claim for compensation.
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For a man who is responsible for looking after our new clients in a busy, leading, personal injury law firm, as well as writing informative articles for you folks to digest, you may not have thought I’d be the sort of guy who has done my fair share of work up on a scaffold rig!

A fair few years back, as a recent graduate in an economic meltdown, I did a little light renovating work for a family friend that involved scaffolding to reach the high ceilings in a former swimming hall being turned in to a modern dance studio. It was good work – I enjoyed getting my hands dirty – but as a former rock climber as well, with a little instructing experience, my knowledge of dangers at height is pretty good!

This hands on experience combined with my hands on legal knowledge allows me to write a nice little blog about scaffolding injuries and whether you can claim compensation for them.
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Any bodily injury can be a pain to live with. Certain injuries will always be more of an inconvenience to people than others – for example, as is the topic of this article, foot injuries.

If you injure your foot, you are likely to end up with considerable issues walking around. Your mobility is restricted, meaning your independence is compromised and your quality of life can be seriously reduced. Just imagine trying to get upstairs to use the bathroom or go to bed when you can’t actually walk right – Sounds painful; all of them stairs. Imagine trying to prepare a meal whilst hopping around the kitchen, complete with steak knife in one hand and your sirloin sizzling in the oil on the gas hob – sounds rather dangerous, doesn’t it?

Normally people who end up with a foot injury that causes any difficulty walking will require some form of care and assistance from a householder, friend or relative. So there is that to take in to account, on top of the fact that commuting to work may be made somewhat difficult if you can’t drive with the injury to the foot.
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Compensation Claims Lawyer Advice

For us, it’s not just about getting you the maximum amount of compensation in the quickest time possible; it’s also about helping you get back on the road to recovery as fast as we possibly can.

Rehabilitation for many injuries is the key to a successful recovery in as quicker time as possible. However, whilst the NHS does a fantastic job, we know that the process for getting help with the NHS can often be slow. For a claim for compensation with The Injury Lawyers, you don’t need to worry about waiting around for medical help at all!
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The importance of Personal Protective Equipment (or PPE for short) at work is huge. There are certain risks and hazards in many workplace situations that mean the only form of protection from injury is with equipment employers must provide to their employees. The duty is on the employer to pay for and provide suitable equipment, as well as to maintain the equipment and replace such equipment as and when it is necessary to do so.

For example – if you need to manually handle dangerous material, such as sharp metals, hot liquids, chemicals, or anything that can cause any form of injury or suffering to you, your employers must provide you with the right equipment such as gloves to protect you from injury. Gloves in these kinds of scenarios must be appropriate as well – they must be strong enough to ensure sharp material cannot slice through the gloves, or heat retardant enough to prevent hot materials or liquids from burning through them.

The equipment must also be available and suitable for use as well. Taking the gloves example again – they’re no use if there aren’t any available to fit you, or if the gloves prevent you from working, or if there are only limited amounts leaving some employees without protection.
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The human body is a complex organism. I won’t even begin to try and fully explain (or even understand) how each and every little part of us works – and to be honest, we’re not medical experts here so we leave that to the professionals. What we do know however is whether you can make a claim for compensation for any injuries you have sustained, and we can represent you for a case if we feel we can win it for you.

As expert personal injury lawyers, we know exactly how to make the most of your compensation claim. So when it comes to nerve injuries, we know, appreciate, and understand that there is a lot to take in to account.

Nerve damage can be serious. For anyone who is suffering, or has suffered, with nerve damage, I’m preaching to the converted. The problem is that it’s very easy to end up damaging the nervous system, and the impact it can have can be potentially huge.
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For a variety of reasons, some people are more nervous or afraid of roundabouts than others.  This can cause accidents as we at The Injury Lawyers are only too aware. 

If you have been involved in a roundabout accident and have sustained an injury as a result, depending on the circumstances, you may be entitled to compensation. 

Here’s some quick advice if you were thinking of making a claim.
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Whiplash Compensation in the News

Personal injury is often in the press; whiplash even more so. Sadly, the majority of what people hear about is nothing but bad news and the insurers’ side of the story. We have covered probably most current affairs issues surrounding whiplash and personal injury, and we will continue to defend the innocent victims of whiplash who genuinely suffer pain and incur loss until our dying breaths!

Once again whiplash is in the news as the government are announcing plans to cut car whiplash claims. It’s all very well making a good effort to cut out the fraudulent claims – we agree with that – but stating the plans to “cut car whiplash claims” is a careless statement.
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Read this to save yourself some money! Like, 30% of your payout!

Unfortunately (or rather fortunately perhaps for you!), we do not deal with claims for miss sold PPI – HOWEVER, there is a very good reason as to why we don’t. For anyone who has had a claim or who has considered a claim, you may well know that a solicitor or claims company dealing with the case will be taking a percentage of your payout because they are unable to recover fees back from the other side.

So you do not receive 100% of your PPI compensation payout. According to some research we have looked at, as much as 30% will go to the solicitors or claims company running these cases on their No Win, No Fee agreements.
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According to sources from The Telegraph, a young mother in Wales who was fitted with the dangerous PIP breast implants containing industrial grade silicon has died after a suspected overdose which the Telegraph says could be related to the worries and fears over having the implants inside of her.

According to the report (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9227694/Young-mum-died-after-worrying-about-PIP-implants.html), 24 year old mother and civil servant Paige Goldup had been airing her fears publically over social networking sites and was quoted to have said how stressful the situation was for her and how she was worried about having to pay for removal and replacement.

The report goes on to say she was a loving mum with so much to live for, leaving her family both baffled and heartbroken as to how this has happened. She was found unconscious at her home and was taken to nearby Moriston Hospital in Swansea where she tragically later died. An inquest has been opened and adjourned whilst toxicology and other tests are carried out.
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