How to win 100% work injury compensation by showing that your employers made a mistake

Here are 10 Common Mistakes Employers Make:

• Failure to Act Upon Complaints Made by Employees. Your employers are expected to act upon complaints that you or your colleagues make about the conditions in your work place or the equipment that you use. If your employers have failed to act on your complaints, this could be proof that they were at fault. If as a result you have suffered an injury, you could be entitled to claim work injury compensation. 
  
  
• Unsafe System of Work. Your employers are required to provide you with a safe system of work. If they have failed to do this, you may be able to show that they were at fault. If as a result you have suffered an injury, you could be entitled to claim work injury compensation.
  
  
• Failure to Carry Out Risk Assessment. Your employers have a responsibility to perform suitable risk assessments of your work area to reduce the risk of injury. If they have not done this or they failed to carry out proper risk assessment, this may be proof that they were at fault. If as a result you have suffered an injury, you could be entitled to claim work injury compensation.
  
  
• Failure to Provide Proper Training, Instructions or Supervision. Your employers are required to provide you with proper training, instructions and supervision. If they have failed to do this, you may be able to show that they were at fault. If as a result you have suffered an injury, you could be entitled to claim work injury compensation.
  
  
• Failure to Provide Safe Equipment. Your employers have a responsibility to provide you with safe equipment. If they have provided you with unsafe equipment, you may be able to show that they were at fault. If as a result you have suffered an injury, you could be entitled to claim work injury compensation.
  
  
• Failure to Provide Information About the Weight of Objects or Persons Required to Be Lifted or Moved Manually. Your employers have a responsibility to provide you with information about the weight of objects or persons you are expected to lift or move manually. If they have not given you this information, you may be able to prove that they were at fault. If as a result you have suffered an injury, you could be entitled to claim work injury compensation.
  
  
• Failure to Give Proper Instructions in Safe Lifting or Moving Techniques. Your employers are required to provide you with instructions in safe lifting or moving techniques. If they have not done this or they failed to do it properly, you may be able to show that they were at fault. If as a result you have suffered an injury, you may be entitled to claim work injury compensation.
  
  
• Failure to Provide Suitable Mechanical Hoists or Lifting Devices. Your employers have a responsibility to provide you with suitable lifting devices if you carry out manual handling work to enable you to do your work without the need for lifting. If they have failed to do this, you may be able to prove that they were at fault. If as a result you have suffered an injury, you could be entitled to claim work injury compensation.
  
  
• Failure to Provide Competent Staff. Your employers should provide competent staff to carry out tasks in a safe way. If they have not done this, you may be able to show that they were at fault. If as a result you have suffered an injury, you could be entitled to claim work injury compensation.
  
  
• Failure to Warn Employees of a Danger. Your employers have a responsibility to warn you of a danger of which they are aware or are expected to be aware of. If they have not done this, you may be able to show that they were at fault. If as a result of their failure, you have suffered an injury, you may be entitled to claim work injury compensation.

Beware, employers rarely accept responsibility for accidents at work but this does not mean that your claim will fail. They may be denying the claim because their insurance company requires them not to admit responsibility for policy reasons.

Contact our Freephone helpline on 0800 32132 87 to see if you are entitled to claim compensation or simply fill out our online enquiry form.