Office Accidents

Offices are usually considered to be fairly safe working environments, without many of the hazards associated with factories, construction sites, and other workplaces with machinery and manual workers. But every year there is a significant number of office work injury claims arising from accidents and bad working practices in office workplaces.

Office injury claims tend to arise as a result of inadequate workstations and seating arrangements - bad ergonomic planning for desk workers - and also from trips over trailing cables and other obstacles on the floor, slipping on worn or broken steps, and injuries from inappropriate lifting. Just as with factories and construction sites, indeed with any working environment, offices are subject to Health and Safety legislation. This puts duties on employers to make sure that the office is safe for employees, and that the way in which they are required to carry out their duties is also safe and complies with all relevant Health and Safety regulations. And as with all personal injury claims, if an employer has failed in a duty owed to an employee to comply with safety regulations and take all practical steps to ensure safe working practices and a safe workplace, and it can be proved that injuries have arisen as a result of this failure, then compensation may well be recoverable for an office work injury claim.