by Russell Worth | Feb 15, 2016 | Accident at Work, Accident Claims, Back Injury, Brain Injuries, Claims, Factory Accidents, Head Injuries, Injury at Work, Ladder Fall Accident, Personal Injury, Scaffolding Accidents, Spinal Injury Compensation
Your spinal cord is a huge mesh of nerves that runs down the centre of your back. It carries signals and between your brain and your body, which makes your body perform all of the vital functions it does, both consciously and unconsciously. It is protected by the...
by Russell Worth | Feb 15, 2016 | Accident at Work, Accident Claims, Industrial Disease, Injury at Work, occupational cancers, occupational dermatitis, Personal Injury
It might seem like an idyllic environment in which to work, but modern farming carries far more risks to health and safety than just avoiding angry bulls. As well as the wide range of chemicals and by-products of farming, respiratory disease is a major occupational...
by Russell Worth | Feb 8, 2016 | Accident at Work, Accident Claims, Back Injury, Claims, Head Injuries, Injury at Work, Personal Injury
No employee of any organisation should be forced to accept incidents of violent or aggressive behaviour as a normal part of their job, but when working in health and social care – an industry entirely based around looking after people – this type of incident is far...
by Russell Worth | Feb 8, 2016 | Accident at Work, Accident Claims, Back Injury, Brain Injuries, Claims, Construction Site Accident, Factory Accidents, Forklift Accidents, Head Injuries, Injury at Work, Ladder Fall Accident, Personal Injury, Scaffolding Accidents, Spinal Injury Compensation
A glazing company was fined £36,000 and ordered to pay a further £1,386 costs after it was prosecuted by the HSE for serious health and safety breaches. While no-one was actually injured as a result of the negligence, this case goes to show that cases like this can be...
by Russell Worth | Feb 1, 2016 | Accident at Work, Accident Claims, Back Injury, Brain Injuries, Claims, Construction Site Accident, Factory Accidents, Forklift Accidents, Head Injuries, Injury at Work, Ladder Fall Accident, Personal Injury, Scaffolding Accidents, Spinal Injury Compensation
George Formby’s song about cleaning windows focussed on the comedy elements of window cleaning, but it must not be forgotten that cleaning windows carries a lot of risks that need to be identified and managed in order to avoid serious, and in some cases fatal,...
by Russell Worth | Feb 1, 2016 | Accident at Work, Accident Claims, Back Injury, Car Accidents, Claims, Construction Site Accident, Factory Accidents, Forklift Accidents, Head Injuries, Injury at Work, Personal Injury
A north-western haulage firm has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £90,000 after one of its employees was crushed to death when an HGV became loose and rolled across a yard. The company was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive after an...
