Whiplash personal injuries and workstation health

After a car accident causing a whiplash personal injury, drivers may find that their physical skills are affected, including their ability to perform adequately in work situations and maintain their computer skills.

The good news is that workstation health can be altered to accommodate a personal injury and occupational therapists can normally find some way to adjust an office scenario to make a work environment more accessible for somebody who has had a car accident.

As a whiplash personal injury affects the nervous system, eye problems affecting computer vision and mobility problems affecting keyboard use can occur.

Disability Aid Charities
There are various disability charities such as AbilityNet and the e-learning provider Happy Computers that provide user-friendly, interactive online courses to help computer users adjust their workstations and computer settings after experiencing whiplash in a car accident. Read more at www.abilitynet.org.uk.

Around half of individuals who have had a car accident find that they have physical or visual difficulties which can impede their computer use and increase physical discomfort, which in turn can reduce healing time.

AbilityNet's Operations Director David Barnes comments: "Many problems which affect PC use can be avoided with the appropriate technology. Simple adjustments can be of tremendous help to staff with dyslexia or poor sight, in addition to temporary conditions like whiplash, a neck injury or a broken arm. None of these conditions should prevent an employee from enjoying full computer access."

Computer accessibility guidelines
Most companies are required to provide accessibility guidelines that comply with the disability discrimination act (DDA).

Companies worldwide have been looking at how they can make their products and websites more user-friendly for some time in order to improve their sales and marketing potential.

Processes like "eye-tracking" (where you experience your site through the eyes of your users) can determine holes in the way companies portray material and what the implications are for users who have been affected by an accident.

Whiplash compensation claims
Even the best drivers can get involved in a car accident and motoring organisations estimate that a road traffic accident takes place every two minutes in the UK.

That's a lot of car accidents, a lot of whiplash personal injuries and a lot of frustrated drivers feeling indignant if they have to incur costs for incidents that have taken place which affect their health, job and financial security through absolutely no fault of their own.

If you have been involved in a non-fault road traffic accident, you don't have to just take it on the chin. You may be able to make a whiplash compensation claim through YouClaim and it won't cost you a single penny.

If your claim is a success, 100 % of all awarded damages will go directly to you. You will be able to take advantage of our excellent success rate and get free legal advice from a team of highly professional personal injury specialists.

To find out more about how we can help you, call us now on 0800 10 757 95 or request a call back via our online form.