by Russell Worth | Feb 7, 2017 | Industrial Disease, Personal Injury
Hairdressing might not appear to be one of the most dangerous occupations out there, but you’d be surprised at how many injuries can be inflicted during the process of helping you look beautiful. While cuts from scissors and burns from heat-treatment devices can...
by Russell Worth | Feb 7, 2017 | Accident Claims, Industrial Disease, occupational cancers, Sunbed Negligence
At this time of year the risks from exposure to the sun’s rays might seem like a rather distant threat, but for those who spend large periods of their working lives outside, it is very real, and something that must be taken seriously. It has become common knowledge...
by Russell Worth | Jan 24, 2017 | Accident Claims, asbestosis compensation, Industrial Disease, mesothelioma, occupational cancers
Humans have used asbestos for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Records of asbestos mines in Roman times show that man had discovered its many positive properties and attributes a very long time before its dangerous potential side effects were noticed. In the time...
by Russell Worth | Dec 6, 2016 | Accident Claims, Industrial Disease
An Ejector Seat manufacturer from Uxbridge has been fined £800,000 and ordered to pay costs of over £36,000 after three of their employees developed allergic alveolitis; a debilitating lung condition. Also known as hypersensitivity pneumonitis, the condition is the...
by Russell Worth | Aug 2, 2016 | asbestosis compensation, Claims, Industrial Disease, mesothelioma, occupational cancers
A school trust in Essex has been fined for poorly-planned and managed refurbishment and maintenance after staff and others were exposed to potentially harmful asbestos during the conversion of one of their buildings. Managers at The Boswells School in Chelmsford had...
by Russell Worth | Jul 18, 2016 | Accident at Work, asbestosis compensation, Industrial Disease, mesothelioma
The motor manufacturer General Motors UK Ltd has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive after contactors were exposed to dangerous asbestos fibres while carrying out works on one of the company’s buildings in Ellesmere Port. An investigation by the HSE...
