Industrial Illness and Injuries

Life is full of risks and at times one does not have an option than to face them. However it becomes the duty of the employer to ensure safe and healthy working environment for its workers. Still due to the nature of work, in certain cases it seems almost impossible to the employer to avert certain hazardous substances that are to be used in work. For such cases, it is the responsibility of the employer to provide equipments that assure a protection to employees from these hazardous substances. However, making proper use of these equipments is further the duty of the employees and not the employer.

Still in some workplaces it may be possible that employees are suffering due to the negligence of proper protective measures on the part of the employer or any other concerned person. Hence, employee whose health is suffering has all the right to claim for a compensation for any health hazard or accident that he might have undergone at the workplace because of machinery or any other thing. Industrial illness solicitor can be consulted to represent the case of the employee in the matter. Asbestos illnesses, recurring strain Injury, skin disease like eczema and dermatitis, Vibration White Finger, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Tinnitus or any other industrial deafness are some of the illnesses that can be compensated for. Nevertheless, one cannot claim a compensation for excess of stress at the workplace.

Industrial injuries and illnesses are caused mainly because of manual carriage of heavy materials, failure or misuse of vehicles, inadequate training to employees to ensure their safety, exposure to hazardous substances, poor ergonomics and many others. Asbestosis, air embolism, phossy jaw, silicosis, and decompression sickness are some other injuries that can be compensated for.

These industrial injuries and illnesses though cannot be expected to rule out completely, but undoubtedly their numbers can be reduced by taking proper care, providing safety training programs for employees, safety clothes, equipments and last but not least, risk assessment programs that will help to analyse the root cause of the most common kinds of accidents at the workplace and further suggest measures to elude them. So, if you are a victim in any such negligence predicament at your workplace, it is always advisable to consult an industrial illness solicitor.