Anyone working in healthcare, or for our emergency services, deserves to be given necessary protection from accidents or illnesses. Our team can help you if you've been injured in these workplaces.
All employers (including those providing health and social care) have a responsibility to protect their employees, contractors and visitors from accidents or illnesses by having safe working practices and supplying personal protective equipment.
Employers are also obliged to provide appropriate training for employees to complete their tasks safely and that any required tools are regularly maintained.
If your employer has failed to provide you with appropriate protective work equipment to enable you to do your job, and you have suffered an injury as a result, then you may be able to make a claim for compensation.
All employers are required to ensure that risks from sharps injuries are adequately assessed and appropriate control measures are in place. The Sharp Instruments in Healthcare Regulations 2013 provide specific details on requirements that must be taken by healthcare employers and their contractors.
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Health and Social Care can be categorised into three main industry groups:
Emergency service employees such as firemen, coast guards, policemen, mountain rescue and paramedics appreciate that their work can put them into dangerous situations. However, the emergency services employer still has a duty of care (like any other employer) to ensure that their employees are reasonably protected from foreseeable harm and illness.
If a fireman, policeman, paramedic or another type of emergency service worker has been injured during the course of their employment; and the employer failed to take adequate steps to protect them from harm then our accident at work and trade union lawyers may be able to help bring a claim for compensation. Adequate steps may include the provision of appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE), training or processes ensuring safe systems of work.
If you work in the health and social care or emergency services sector and consider that your employer or a third party has caused you an injury or illness, then you may be able to bring a claim for compensation.
Needlestick or sharps injuries are a significant risk to those working in the health and social care sector; for both those who directly handle sharps and those who may be exposed to a risk of injury if medical instruments are not appropriately stored or disposed of.
Sharps include needles, blades, syringes, scalpels and other types of medical instruments used for carrying out healthcare work and can cause cutting or pricking injuries to the skin.
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In general you have three years from the date of injury or reasonable knowledge of injury to bring a compensation claim. There are some exceptions to this rule for instance where the matter involves a child in which case the child has three years from the date of their 18th birthday to bring a claim, therefore expiring on the individual’s 21st birthday.
It is important to speak to a legal team as early as possible to avoid any issues with limitation dates.
