{"id":14240,"date":"2013-11-11T11:51:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T11:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/?p=14240"},"modified":"2013-11-11T11:51:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T11:51:42","slug":"blocked-or-unsuitable-green-route-on-a-building-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2013\/11\/11\/blocked-or-unsuitable-green-route-on-a-building-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Blocked or Unsuitable Green Route on a Building Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/injured-walking-past-building-site-300x227.png\" alt=\"builing site green route accidents\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14130\" \/>Building sites are dangerous places; so making sure that health and safety is done right is of paramount importance. That&#8217;s why there are usually specific routes for pedestrians or workers to use when navigating a building site, and these are often referred to as <strong>Green Routes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There should, in theory, be no danger to a person correctly using a green route on a building site. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that rules will not be broken, or people will fail to follow procedure.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is something like a truck blocking the route meaning you have to go around it &#8211; being injured in the process or perhaps even being hit by another vehicle when using the ground near the green route to get around the obstruction?<\/li>\n<li>You are hit by a vehicle on a green route who should not be using the green route for access with their vehicle?<\/li>\n<li>Pipes or cables being laid in the ground go through a green route and there is insufficient means of crossing a gap on the route, or a bridge or support collapses when walking over it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In any of the scenarios above, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/accidents_at_work.php\">you may have a claim for a work injury compensation<\/a>. Someone is in breach of the green route rules, and their breach of important healthy and safety has caused your accident. This is the main ingredient for making a claim for personal injury compensation; a breach of duty that has caused an accident and injury \/ loss.<\/p>\n<p>There will often be several contractors and deliveries on building sites, and sometimes these companies or their employees can be rather flippant with health and safety rules; and that&#8217;s when accidents occur. Using the common example above of a blocked route, all it takes is a delivery driver to park across a green route or a truck from a contractor to do the same and you can end up with a problem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is at fault<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>It could depend &#8211; if a contractor or delivery company has breached the green route rules you may have a right of action directly against them. But your employer still has the overriding duty to look after your wellbeing on the site so they could equally be as liable; especially if a site manager or supervisor fails to take action if they notice a breach of the green route rules.<\/p>\n<p>But you can leave the leg work for finding out who is at fault with us &#8211; that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re here for!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building sites are dangerous places; so making sure that health and safety is done right is of paramount importance. That&#8217;s why there are usually specific routes for pedestrians or workers to use when navigating a building site, and these are often referred to as Green Routes. 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