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Despite the many advances that have been made, both in safety equipment and in safety practice, working at height remains dangerous, with an unacceptable number of fall from height claims still going before the courts each year.
Perhaps the single biggest obstacle to significantly reducing the incidence of the fall from height claim rate has nothing at all to do with official health and safety regulation – instead, it is a cultural issue that is all about the mentality of workers and employers, both collectively and individually.
Far too often in UK workplaces, whether on construction sites, farms, scaffolding sites or in factories, warehouses and industrial settings, a kind of gung-ho machismo culture prevails where health and safety practice is perceived as weak, feminine and an unnecessary inconvenience.
There can be no hiding the fact that the vast majority of working from height accidents occur in male-dominated industries and until these industries, at the behest of their employers, instil workers with a strong belief that working from height without safety equipment is unacceptable, little will be done to address the issue of falls from height in the workplace.
Joy Jones, the Health and Safety Executive's principal inspector of construction, comments, "There are no quick wins. We need to look at a very long-term strategy of around 25 years, with the goal of making working at height without precautions as socially unacceptable as drinking and driving. This will come about by a combination of education, information and enforcement. We need to get everybody on board, but the HSE can't do this alone, society has to tackle this problem."
Claim compensation for a fall from height
Whatever industry or profession you work in if you have suffered injury in a fall from height, such as in a ladder accident, you may be entitled to claim compensation.
Our personal injury solicitors can help you mount the strongest possible case for compensation and will always seek to pursue your best interests.
In the interests of justice, our fall from height claim service is payment free – you never have to part with a penny.
And we never take a cut – our 100 percent compensation promise.
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