Wednesday, February 13, 2008

10 boards for winning accidents case

Accidents in the workplace can occur very often, the health and safety if measures are not in place. Health and safety is a legal requirement for all employers and whatever the circumstances must be in place. If an accident happens the employee must notify their employer in writing in the book of an accident immediately. If the accident had caused the employee to pay for medical expenses, not to go to work or suffering of any kind, they would have a claim against the company. My top 10 tips to help you make a claim are as follows: --

1. In any work environment all employees should be aware of the health and safety standards in place at their workplace. They should be told by a member of management or employees may trainer are trying to avoid accidents in the workplace.

2. Most people think of your little chance of having an accident while working in an office you think that most accidents occur on the type of work in factories, offices, but accidents do happen. If you have an accident in an office is the same thing as having one in a factory to speak out and tell someone.

3. Evidence more you will be stronger your case, if you do fall, slipping, tripping over something document with the location and time and take photographs if possible, if there are witnesses to keep a note of who they are. If there are events which led to the accident, the whole of this document, as well as what you remember during and after the accident.

4. Get an experienced lawyer who has evidence that they were involved in an accident at work claim before with good results. Many lawyers now offer No Win No service charge, it means that you do not have to pay a penny until the cause is won, and then they recover their costs of the other party and if you do not win your case, you will not need to pay even a penny.

5. Gather as much evidence as you can from your accident. The more evidence you have the more likely you are to win your claim. Your employer will be held liable for the accident, if the case is proved, and will receive the compensation that you deserve your suffering.

6. Any accident in your work environment must be registered in the accident book, which is a legal requirement for all employers. Once you have had your fill accident in the accident this book other accidents have occurred, and if one of them has received any compensation and the manner in which the employee has been treated. All this information will then help you and your lawyer to know how to handle your case.

7. Whatever your work accident has not ignore, any small or large accident should not have happened in the first place. You need to talk about it do not suffer in silence if the accident was not your fault, you are entitled to claim compensation for your pain, all medical expenses and loss of income while you have been a work stoppage since the accident.

8. All employees must know exactly where the accident book is kept, and if an accident occurs, the injured party or a friend or a manager can write all the details of the accident in the accident book. In large companies, it is perhaps not an accident but a book in which the forms can be printed and all the details on the sheet and then the details are entered into a computer system. Then, a worker who was injured may claim their right to compensation through its copy of the accident.

9. If you had an accident at work and your will seek compensation from your employer, you may receive threats from the employer or your supervisor. Do not listen to them or give them, we try to scare you off to demand compensation. Remember its legal and civil your right to claim compensation if they ignore them and you might be frightened because they know they are responsible for the accident and must pay you compensation for your injury. If your frightened by threats talk to your lawyer and they can communicate with the police and offer protection.

10. Always ask your lawyer to all the questions you have, if you believe that the accident was your fault, ask a lawyer for advice, you may be thinking that it is your fault because you afraid to claim against your employer.

Whatever your accident, but it happened you have a civil law and entitled to compensation if the work-related accident is not your fault.

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