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There is plenty of evidence to suggest that the process of avoiding the kind of train accident in which paying passengers suffer personal injury is greatly helped by having health and safety conscious railway workers who are prepared to report even the most minor of health and safety incidents.
With both this and the more immediate concern of worker safety in mind, in 2010 the Office of Rail Regulation introduced a new tool for the reporting of injuries that result in railway workers being unable to work for three days or more.
The online RIDDOR (the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995) tool allows injured parties and their colleagues or managers to promptly alert the relevant authorities to reportable incidents, helping both accident investigators and personal injury solicitors understand the causes of railway-related health and safety incidents.
According to union officials, the online tool came at an apposite time. One commented, "There is growing evidence across the country that Network Rail's cuts programme is already hitting the critical safety inspection regime hard and this reinforces our case that the company should now pull back from the brink before lethal damage is done.
He added, "There is already a shortage of staff and to be axing maintenance posts and lumping extra work onto signallers under these circumstances is a reckless gamble with rail safety."
However, the online RIDDOR tool is not the only means of reporting safety incidents and near-misses. It is complemented by a form known as the functionally named Monthly report of dangerous occurrences, a form which allows workers to inform the regulator of incidents involving broken rails, failures in the signaling system and rail bridge defects, among others.
Furthermore there are other forms relevant to the reporting of a train accident or a near-miss; these are the Reporting of a serious incident to ORR form and Details of death of a person killed outright or fatally injured on a railway form.
Claim compensation following a train accident
If you have suffered injury in a railway-related accident it may be possible to claim compensation for the negligence that led to you suffering passenger injuries.
Here at YouClaim we specialise in representing claimants who have sustained rail-related incidents, whether it is a slip, trip or fall on a railway station platform or in the traumatic circumstances of a train crash.
Our personal injury solicitors work on a completely charge free basis when representing claimants who have suffered injury in these kinds of situations. Win or lose, you can rest assured that you will be insulated from ever having to pay a penny to fund your claim.
We have an excellent success rate, employ only leading solicitors and pride ourselves on our friendly and professional service.
All you have to do to instigate a train accident claimtoday is fill out one of our online claim forms or call 0800 10 757 95.
