Glasgow Personal Injury Blog
New Smart Watches are a Potential Driving Hazard
Posted: September 18, 2014
Posted in: Road Traffic Accidents
Drivers have recently been warned about the potential risks associated with wearing smart watches while driving. The latest piece of wearable technology from Apple will allow users to make and receive calls, check their messages and monitor their health by operating the device on their wrists. However, road safety charity, the Institute of Advanced Motorists […]
Read MoreThree Quarters of Workers too Intimidated to Report a Health and Safety Issue
Posted: September 10, 2014
Posted in: Employer Negligence Workplace Injuries
Protecting, the risk assessment company, have published research that shows that 74% of UK workers fear reporting poor health and safety in their work place. These employees fear that complaining about health and safety in their work place may single them out as being a problem employee and cost them their job or hinder promotion plans. […]
Read MoreMesothelioma: Not a Problem of the Past
Posted: September 2, 2014
Posted in: Asbestos Exposure Industrial Deafness and Disease Mesothelioma
James Cant, head of British Lung Foundation Scotland has made clear that the effects of asbestos are still very much a part of Scotland and should be afforded greater attention. Mr Cant outlined that while the shipyards, coal-mines and steel works have long gone, the legacy of industrial disease lives on. At the height of […]
Read MoreEdinburgh Company Fined £12,000 After Employee is Crushed by Lorry
Posted: August 25, 2014
Posted in: Employer Negligence Head and Brain Injuries Workplace Injuries
Macfarlan Smith Limited, a pharmaceutical company based in Edinburgh has pled guilty to failing to ensure the health and safety of an employee in relation to an incident where a reversing lorry crushed the employee‘s head and chest. Alexander Mackenzie, was emploed at Macfarlan Smith Limited and was working at the company’s Wheatfield Road premises […]
Read MoreCompany Fined £240,000 After Worker is Crushed to Death By Grain Bin
Posted: August 15, 2014
Posted in: Employer Negligence Head and Brain Injuries Workplace Injuries Wrongful & Accidental Death
An animal feed company has been fined £240,000 for safety failings after a lorry driver died of fatal injuries after being crushed by a two-tonne, fully-loaded grain bin falling from a fork-lift truck. David Leslie was employed by a feed services firm and was picking up a load from East Coast Viners Grain in Stonehaven, […]
Read MoreMesothelioma Compensation to be Reviewed Again After “maladroit” Consultation by Government
Posted: August 6, 2014
Posted in: Asbestos Exposure Industrial Deafness and Disease Mesothelioma
The Justice Committee has condemned the Government’s review of mesothelioma claims and called on the Government to carry out the consultation again. The consultation carried out under section 48 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) was not prepared in a thorough and even-handed manner according to the Justice Committee, […]
Read MoreLawyers Take Mesothelioma Case To High Court
Posted: July 30, 2014
Posted in: Asbestos Exposure Employer Negligence Mesothelioma
A group of lawyers have begun a High Court challenge this week in response to the government’s decision to make mesothelioma sufferers pay from their awarded damages, legal and insurance costs. Previously, an exemption had preserved claimants’ rights to reclaim after-event premiums and success fees from the losing party in their case, however the government […]
Read MoreAcademics Criticise HSE Safeguards against toxic workplace dust
Posted: July 24, 2014
Posted in: Employer Negligence Industrial Deafness and Disease
A failure by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to introduce adequate safeguards against toxic workplace dust mean workers are being put at risk of contracting lung cancer or other respiratory diseases say experts. The Scottish university academics have the HSE regarding its recommended safe level of exposure to the substance crystalline silica, a powder […]
Read MoreCompany Prosecuted After Child’s Head Becomes Trapped in Electric Fence
Posted: July 14, 2014
Posted in: Head and Brain Injuries Public Place Accidents School Accidents
A company have been prosecuted for failing to install an adequate safety guard on an electric gate that trapped a young boy at a primary school in Stourbridge. The Court heard on 10 July 204, that the eight-year-old boy was injured when his head became trapped between the edge of the closing gate and the […]
Read MoreNew Figures Show Workplace Fatalities at All Time Low
Posted: July 7, 2014
Posted in: Workplace Injuries
Figures released on 2 July reveal that the number of workers killed in Britain in workplace related incidents last year has fallen to the lowest annual recorded rate. The provisional data which was released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) indicated that 133 workers were fatally injured between April 2013 and March 2014 – […]
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