Employers carry certain responsibilities to protect the well being of their employees in the workplace. This can cover everything from making sure slippery walking areas are clearly labelled, to providing effective safety equipment for those undertaking hazardous jobs. Should employers fail to meet the regulations governing the safety of employees in the workplace and this leads to an employee suffering an injury or illness while at work, the employee is within his or her rights to seek work injury compensation with the help of an experienced team of legal advisors, such as those provided by Irwin Mitchell.

Amongst the types of personal injury claims companies such as Irwin Mitchell deal with are those relating to faulty or defective workplace equipment. If your job requires you to use specialist equipment – either as part of the work itself, or to keep you safe while undertaking the work – the company you are employed by has a legal responsibility to make sure that this equipment is maintained properly and that it meets health and safety standards. The injuries that can occur as a result of failure to meet this obligation can range from relatively minor ones, to serious injury or death. The responsibilities carried by employers with regard to workplace equipment include: making sure that this equipment is working properly and maintained, by means of regular inspections; providing employees required to use this equipment have received any training that they need to be able to operate it safely and ensuring that they have any safety equipment needed to protect them; making sure employees operating machinery which has been earmarked as a potential hazard following risk assessment are notified concerning the potential areas of danger; and removing defective equipment from use until it has been fully repaired.

If you have suffered an injury as a result of your employer failing to meet any of these obligations regarding equipment and machinery, you have a good chance of being able to claim the appropriate compensation provided you seek the help of a company such as Irwin Mitchell, with their experience in dealing with such claims.