Bakery workers tend to suffer various work related injuries including accident injuries to their hands, wrists, burns and illness such as asthma.
Although most bakery workers enjoy what they do, but behind that enjoyment are risks of injury that are often encountered in bakeries.
The main causes of accidents in bakeries are created by the routine and monotonous nature of bakery work.
Bakery activities include constant scrubbing; cutting, lifting and quick movements, frequent twisting of the body at regular intervals. All these create real risks of injury to the bakery worker.
Workers in bakeries are exposed to substances hazardous to health which include flour dust, improver dusts including enzymes containing additives such as amylase, as well as cleaning and disinfectant products.
In reality, any part of a bakery is dangerous and a potential risk of accident injury. Bakeries are very risky places for burn injuries because of the amount of heat generated by the baking ovens.
We at Balinda & Co have helped a lot of bakery workers who have suffered work related injuries. Accident Injuries sustained by bakery workers include: wrists injuries caused by dough making machines trapping the hand, burn injuries to the forearm caused by hot trays and asthma caused or made worse by exposure to flour dust and cleaning disinfectants.
Occupational contribution to the serious worsening of asthma was the focus of a review of data from the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS), recently which was published in the European Respiratory Journal.
Regulations require bakers to reduce exposure to flour dust as far below the WEL of 10 mg/m3, to lower the risk of occupationally aggravated asthma. The avoidance of dust clouds which arise from throwing flour, disposing of empty flour bags and brushing, is also recommended by the regulations.
Bag emptying, sieving, dough making are processes that create a lot of dust that expose bakery workers to the risk of injury or illness.
You need a specialist bakery accident solicitor to help you get proper compensation if you have suffered injuries in a bakery accident.
This Guide was prepared by Balinda & Co to help you properly plan your bakery accident insurance claim.
Balinda & Co have many years experience and have helped a lot of people who have suffered injuries in bakery accidents to make accident insurance claims.
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