Defective Equipment? Accident at Work?
Injured by faulty equipment at work?
If you have suffered a personal injury due to defective eqipment at work, you should immediately telephone, text or e-mail us for fast help and advice. You will need some speedy advive on how to begin your compensation claim for person injury. In law, it is the duty of your employer to ensure that you have safe equipment to work with. It is not the duty of the employee.
Many workplace personal injury incidents are caused by faulty equipment. Employers have to ensure that the equipment thry supply to their workers is in good working order. This means that the equipment must be regularly tested and maintaned. It should be noted that equipment can mean all kinds of electrical, hand and pneumatic tools, ladders, scaffolding, platforms, trolleys, fork-lift-trucks, gloves, safety clothing etc...
The Employers'Liability (Defective Equipment) Act 1969 provides the framework of law in this area, as well as common law negligence. The Act ensures that employees are able to claim compensation for personal injury due to defective equipment, provided it can be proven that the equipment was provided by the employer for the purposes of their business and that the defect was entirely the fault of the employer or a third party who the employer has engaged to ensure the equipment was safe.
Click here to take you to the Employers' Liability (Defective Equipment) Act 1969.
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