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Being the landlord of a public house is a dream job for many people, but a certain temperament as well as experience or training are essential to success because being behind your own bar is not the same as many other businesses as there are a number of situations which could lead to a work injury compensation claim having to be made by the unwary.
The majority of pubs in the UK are not owned by their landlords but by companies or individuals and the person in charge will be a tenant or manager. In the case of a manager, he will be an employee and the overall management will have obligations for health and safety to him.
The variety of risk of work-related injury or illness occurring in a public house is quite wide; from the usual slips, trips and falls to a potential back injury from lifting beer kegs. Kitchen dangers can include burns or cutting injuries from cooking utensils and electrical faults.
Usually an office area is provided and, outdoors, a garden or car park could well conceal hazards. Many pubs are old and may have uneven surfaces on floors and walls or been poorly maintained in the past.
But whatever the physical situation, the owners of the pub have a duty to their employees to protect them from injury and, especially if a failure in the structure or equipment has been reported, are responsible for keeping premises and fittings provided in good repair so that the landlord and his staff can work safely.
The situation is less clear-cut from a liability point of view where a landlord is a tenant because usually he will have more responsibilities to look after himself and have a tenancy agreement defining how maintenance work is to be done. However, the brewery, company or other owner of the building may also have some liability should the landlord suffer a work injury.
In the same way as the owner of any residential property is legally-obliged to check that services such as electricity, gas and water supplies are safe to use and that the building is structurally sound, where a pub manager or tenant lives in part of the pub he should be protected by the law as much as any other tenant.
For example, heating and cooking appliances should be safe to use, stairs should be adequately lit and flooring maintained or replaced so that it is not a hazard.
If a member of staff at the pub, other than the landlord, should suffer a personal injury or illness as a result of their employment, depending on the circumstances, either the landlord or the pub owner could be responsible.
Advice on a work injury compensation claim
Whether you are employed in a pub, factory, office or driving a train, nobody should go to their job in the morning and end the day contemplating a work injury compensation claim but, should the worst happen, here at YouClaim you can look forward to receiving the best advice and representation to help you recover financially, emotionally and physically.
Our experienced personal injury lawyers are available throughout the UK and have helped hundreds of clients make a successful work injury compensation claim for pain, suffering and loss of earnings after an accident which was not their fault.
With our pledge of no win no fee, you can be sure that if you trust YouClaim's industrial injury expert solicitors to help you, you will keep every penny of compensation won for you.
Our legal advisers are trained to offer a sympathetic yet professional approach and, to make it easy for you to contact them about a claim, we offer not only a freephone number 0800 10 757 95 but also facilities on this webpage to start echat and an online claim form for you to give us basic details then we'll take your case from there.
