{"id":14991,"date":"2014-02-14T11:17:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T11:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/?p=14991"},"modified":"2014-02-14T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T11:17:13","slug":"lifting-injury-working-in-a-restaurant-can-i-claim-advice-from-the-injury-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2014\/02\/14\/lifting-injury-working-in-a-restaurant-can-i-claim-advice-from-the-injury-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifting injury working in a restaurant \u2013 can I claim? Advice from The Injury Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wherever you work and whatever industry you work in, if you have to lift and carry anything at all, you should receive proper manual handling training and any manual handling tasks should be properly risk assessed and supervised. Everyone in our office is trained \u2013 the rules apply to everyone.<\/p>\n

But one such industry where manual handling training is often inadequate or not carried at properly, or at all, is the catering industry. There are a lot of temporary and part time workers, and a lot of staff come and go in short periods of time. But this is no excuse. In fact, there is never an excuse.<\/p>\n

So if you are injured when lifting and carrying in a restaurant, cafe, bar, or other catering environment, can you make a claim for personal injury compensation?<\/p>\n

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The Law<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992<\/b> is an important piece of legislation that puts a duty on employers to ensure that staff are properly trained and supervised when it comes to manual handling and ensure tasks are risk assessed. In fact, the initial duty is to prevent the need for manual handling whatsoever. So if equipment can be used to limit or remove the need for manual handling, this needs to be used.<\/p>\n

Common scenarios in this kind of industry that involve manual handling can include:<\/p>\n