Almost one in five Brits is classed as disabled; that is 13.3 million people. Of those, approximately 17% of those people were born with their disability, but the majority were acquired in later life, due to illness, accidents, or other factors. It is estimated that...
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Don’t Underestimate The Seriousness Of Office Injuries
It may be almost comical to think of an office worker being injured at work. After all, what is the worst that can happen. A stapler goes feral and starts attacking employees? Falling from the great height of an office chair? Unfortunately, for those suffering from...
How to Avoid Developing Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)
We are currently in the middle of a glorious English summer and that means a large percentage of the population is glued to the television watching the greatest tennis competition in the world - Wimbledon. To keep in the spirit of tennis and all the memories of hot,...
Out of Sight – Coping With Vision Loss
When you are blessed with perfect vision it is difficult to imagine what it must be like to have the ability to see clearly taken away from you. However, almost two million people in the UK live with sight loss and around 360,000 of these people have severe or...
Keeping your Head in the Construction Industry
Workplace accidents in the construction industry are often serious, given the exposure of individuals to heights, machinery, and heavy objects. Even a simple error of judgement can have very grave consequences. Despite the vast number of preventive guidelines in...
Harnessing health and safety in the workplace
While most of us commute to work each morning, or sit in the comfort and safety of our own homes, a hardy band of men and women prepare to dangle themselves from trees and buildings, all in the name of maintaining our environment, buildings, and infrastructure. ...
Protecting Your Back At Work
A shocking 10 million working days are lost to back pain every year, which equates to £1 billion in lost earnings. Protecting your back at work can reduce these figures. Chronic back pain is a debilitating condition which affects thousands of people in the UK, with...
An Introduction To Workplace Accidents
If you are unfortunate enough to suffer an accident or injury at work which was not your fault, you may be entitled to make a personal injury claim for compensation. As with any accident compensation claim, this would require you to prove that your accident, injury or...
Introducing ACoPs – Approved Codes of Practice
What is an Approved Code of Practice? Every year thousands of avoidable accidents occur in the workplace, with injuries, ailments and work-related health issues often having a debilitating affect on workers and their families. There are a wide variety of workplaces...
Paralysed Stage Manager Handed £3.7m In Compensation
A stage manager who was left paralysed after falling from a height of three metres at London's Soho Theatre in 2012 has been awarded £3.7 million in compensation. As The Guardian reports, Rachael Presdee, 38, spent six months in hospital and uses a wheelchair after...
