You have a right to be safe in your workplace
You should be as safe working in a shop as any other comparative work environment in the UK. You should be safe because your employer understands and has carried out all their duties under current health and safety legislation applicable to employee health, safety and welfare and the control of hazardous substances. You should be also be safe as a customer in shops as store keepers owe you a common duty of care under Section 2.4 of the Occupiers Liability Act 1957.
You have a right to seek compensation if you were injured because you weren’t safe
If you have suffered a work-related injury in the shop where you work that wasn’t your fault, the circumstances of your accident and nature of your injuries need to be carefully examined to see if it was the reasonably foreseeable consequence of the negligence of your employer in failing to discharge the duty of care they owed you.
Why should I rely on the advice and expertise of a specialist work injury solicitor?
It can be a painstaking and complicated task to demonstrate that you have the right to make a claim against your employer, requiring extensive knowledge of the law and the success or failure of claims made in similar circumstances. The task is therefore undoubtedly best undertaken by a specialist work injury solicitor who will be adept at collating all the evidence and advising you definitively on the viability of your proposed claim.
Look what happened to me because you were asleep at the wheel!
Medical evidence about the nature and extent of your injuries will be required as will any photographic record of the accident available and statements from people who witnessed the accident. You will also have to formally report the accident to the manager of the shop/your employer and record it in the shop accident book.
Don’t delay your compensation claim
Having an accident at work, apart from causing your injury, can also be a psychological shock which can affect your decisiveness. If you genuinely believe that the accident occurred as a result of your employer failing to address one or more health and safety issues in your shop, act as soon as possible, whilst the memory of what happened is still sharp and clear and physical evidence, such as dangerous shelving, might still exist at work.
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