Industrial Disease
An industrial disease or industrial accident can seriously affect a person’s quality of life. In some cases, industrial diseases are terminal, and industrial accidents can, similarly, be fatal. It is therefore vital that industrial accident and industrial disease victims make use of the no win no fee system in the UK to ensure that, where appropriate, compensation is awarded to them for their injuries.
To be eligible to claim compensation, the industrial disease must have been diagnosed within the last three years.
Industrial diseases: employers have a ‘duty of care’
All employers have a duty of care towards their employees where, by law, they must take all reasonable practical steps to prevent illness and injuries or to reduce the risk of these happening to their employees. This duty of care applies to all work-related illness or injury, including industrial diseases and industrial accidents.
While employers will usually take the necessary safety precautions to protect their employees from illness and injury, sometimes this does not happen and industrial accidents or industrial diseases occur as a result of their negligence.
What if employers don’t make adequate health and safety provisions to prevent industrial diseases?
Where an employer fails in their duty of care and a member of their staff suffers an industrial accident or contracts an industrial disease as a result, there may be a case for the employee to make a compensation claim against that employer.
If an employee contracts an industrial injury, or suffers an industrial accident, and it can be shown that they were not provided with adequate health and safety measures by their employer, resulting in the industrial disease or accident, that employee may be able to make a successful claim for industrial disease compensation.
There are many different types of industrial diseases. Depending on the industry and the various roles of their employees, employers should always make job-specific, appropriate health and safety provisions for preventing industrial diseases and industrial accidents among their workers.
