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From a manual handling perspective, loading a van can be potentially very dangerous. You may have to lift at low levels to get loads in to the back of a van, or push them when they are on the back of the van where it could be more difficult due to friction from the flooring. In general, you may be manoeuvring loads whilst twisted or bent down, which again is bad manual handling practice and can easily lead to serious back injury problems.

So what are your rights if you are injured at work due to loading a van? Can you make a claim for personal injury compensation?

The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992

The above is legalisation with extremely important rules to ensure that employees are not injured when carrying out manual handling activities. Some of the more notable regulations read as follows:
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As a personal injury firm, we deal with a wide range of claims including accidents involving forklift trucks. There are many possible accidents involving forklift trucks, from someone being knocked over or trapped by a forklift truck, to the forklift truck dropping a load or malfunctioning.

Forklift trucks can be prone to turning or toppling over. This could easily trap the driver or a fellow worker. Whatever the circumstances of the accident, we may be able to help you. Every case is different and this is why you need an experienced lawyer on your side. We can assess your claim for free, with no obligation.
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Steel toe cap boots are one of the easiest and most inexpensive ways of protecting employee’s feet at work. The simple design would protect your feet from a number of different accidents. There is a duty upon your employer to provide personal protective equipment, or PPE, to their employees when it would protect them from injury. It would fall within Personal Protective Equipment Regulations 1992 and outlined below is what your employers should be doing.
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Forklift trucks are common in many work places but, as with most machinery, they are dangerous when used incorrectly. In many areas where forklifts are used employees are also present, and this increases the risk of danger not only by collisions with the forklift, but also with what the forklift is lifting.

Outlined below will be what your employers are liable for if you have been hit by a falling load from a forklift.
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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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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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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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Many industries, particularly for construction, will involve the digging of deep holes, trenches or perhaps caverns. It doesn’t take a genius to understand that it is dangerous to be somewhere exposed to a risk of a hole, trench, or cavern collapsing inwards. You could end up seriously injured or worse…

So what if this happens to you? Perhaps you are in a hole and the walls collapse inwards causing an injury?

There is a general duty to ensure a person isn’t injured in the workplace. So if the accident could have been prevented, you may have a successful claim for personal injury compensation. Here are a few examples that can apply:
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As Christmas approaches, the retailers are going to inevitably load up their stockrooms as much as they can. I know this because the Christmas period is always one for shopping and spending, and I’ve worked in retail and seen just how much stock a large retailer will try and cram in their stockroom!

At the place I used to work at, I can tell you now that it was one huge health and safety hazard. As a college student with no legal experience, I couldn’t have told you that back then. But thinking of it now, I’m surprised more people weren’t injured!
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