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The pursuit of a compensation claim is a natural response to an accident at work that is not the fault of the injured worker; but it is not necessarily the most immediate need. Personal injury is likely to require first aid, and an employer should provide the appropriate access to first aiders.
The law that covers this issue is the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981. This sets out the need for a company to train or hire first aiders, and 'appointed persons' - people with a degree of responsibility for first aid but without the full training given to a first aider.
The legislation does not set out specific numbers that a company should have, leaving the company's risk assessment to calculate precise needs. However, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has provided guidance on its website that breaks down UK industry by size of company and riskiness of the work done.
For example, a small business with people at low risk of personal injury, such as an office, may need only one appointed person, but a large higher-risk industry, such as a busy slaughterhouse, may be felt to need several fully-qualified first-aiders. The greater the risk, and the larger the workforce, the more likelihood there is for a work injury requiring first aid to occur.
This might be called common sense, and most businesses do provide appropriate first aid provision. However, in those work injury cases where risk assessments were not undertaken, or not acted upon, an employer may be liable for a compensation claim, particularly if the absence of first-aiders made the result of the injury worse than it would otherwise have been.
A leaflet regarding first aid advice is available from the HSE.
Making compensation claims after an accident at work
If you have been unfortunate enough to suffer a work injury that was not your fault, YouClaim can help. Our panel of industrial accident solicitors includes experts in all areas of the law related to this type of claim, and all are drawn from firms in the UK governed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
As well as being no win, no fee lawyers, we can protect you from all costs during your compensation claim and from our fees in a won case, making it entirely free to you, whether you win or lose. We also guarantee to pass on the full 100 percent compensation awarded to you in a won case.
Our advisors are ready to talk to you about the details of your case, and will do so in plain English. You will not be pressured into going ahead if you are not sure, but if you are ready to proceed, we can get your claim underway without unnecessary delay.
Reaching us is easy - you can do so through this site, with our claim form or our online chat window, or you can simply call us and discuss your accident at work on 0800 10 757 95.
