VWF prevention obligations of employer

In order to avoid the possibility of facing Vibration White Finger claims, employers have certain responsibilities to their employees. These responsibilities are prescribed in the Vibration at Work Regulations 2005 as well in guidelines published by the Health and Safety Executive.

It is a failure to meet these safety standards which may result in employees successfully making Vibration White Finger claims.

The basic ethos of these regulations and guidelines is that employers have a duty to protect their workers from the risks of excessive exposure to vibration at work, or face the prospect of affected workers making Vibration White Finger claims.

On a practical level, the Vibration White Finger guidelines oblige employers to enforce minimum health and safety standards to reduce the Vibration White Finger risk.

Health and safety steps employers must take or risk facing Vibration White Finger claims include:

• Making an extensive Vibration White Finger risk assessment.
• Intervention when vibration exposure reaches defined limits.
• Never exceeding defined vibration exposure limits.
• Regular surveillance of health of workers as prescribed.
• In special circumstances, implementing a plan which averages exposure to vibration levels to an acceptable weekly level.
• Provision of education and training on Vibration White Finger.
• Detailing of a systematic plan to be implemented when exposure reaches action levels, so that exposure can be reduced to the lowest possible level.
• Detailing of maximum daily exposure levels.
• Total elimination of vibration and Vibration White Finger risk where possible.

Example Vibration White Finger claims

• A former council worker from the north of England who developed VWF after 12 years working with heavy vibrating machinery was recently awarded £9,500 in personal injury compensation under the terms of his Vibration White Finger claim. He also received £12,000 for loss of future earnings.
  
  His no win, no fee solicitor successfully argued that his employers had been negligent in not providing him with suitable personal protective equipment.
• A mechanical engineer from Scotland was awarded £8,600 for his Vibration White Finger compensation claim in 2005 after his employer was found to be negligent in not intervening to reduce the excessive levels of vibration to which the man was exposed.

How you can make a no win, no fee Vibration White Finger claim
If you have developed VWF through excessive exposure to vibrations in your workplace, you are entitled to make a Vibration White Finger claim.

Here at YouClaim we have years of experience in helping VWF sufferers successfully claim Vibration White Finger compensation.

As we select only the UK's finest personal injury solicitors to join our panel, our success rate is among the best in the business.

Although we are a no win, no fee claims specialist, we would be better described as a win or lose, no fee specialist. This is because when you make a claim with us, you will never, at any stage, have to pay either us or anyone else a penny.

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