Workplace Illnesses

A Workplace Illness is a disease or a form of physical damage resulting from exposure to working in unsafe conditions. Every year thousands of individuals suffer from workplace illnesses without being aware of it immediately as it may not become apparent until many years after the damage is caused. Some of these have serious and long-term effects.

A Workplace Illness is traditionally associated with industrial or engineering occupations where individuals have suffered injury through industrial diseases. However, as new working practices have been established, we have seen work-related medical conditions develop too for example stress and psychiatric disorder or from working excessively on a keyboard or a VDU.

Whilst there are many different types of work related illnesses, they can be broadly categorised as Respiratory Diseases, Skin Diseases, Repetitive Strain Injuries, Industrial Deafness, Vibration Induced Injuries and Cancers.

Workplace Legislation
There is plenty of law for specific illnesses and a lot of it is driven by European Union Regulations which are here to protect employees at work. Much of it can be relied upon when making most types of workplace personal injury claims. They include:

• The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
• The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992
• The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
• The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
• The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH)
• The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998
• The Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992

Available Benefits
The government operates a benefit known as Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit to help those who have suffered as a result of a workplace illness or injury. To read more about this benefit or to see if you may be eligible claim this benefit click here.

Making a claim
We work with specialist solicitors who are experts in Workplace Illness Claims and have successfully represented and won cases on behalf of many clients.

The firm of solicitors who we work with have their own specialist clinical negligence department and are members of the Law Society’s Clinical Negligence Panel.

The solicitors have vast experience in dealing with these types of claims and are able to offer expert advice and excellent representation. Over the years they have successfully represented people in some very high profile clinical negligence cases giving them national reputation.

If you would like to discuss making a claim or for more information call us free on 0800 505 3397 to speak to one of our advisers or submit your claim online by completing our online claim form.

Please note that strict time limits apply for making a Personal Injury Claim. If you are considering making a claim, we advise that you pursue it as soon as possible. To read more about time limits click here.