It is estimated from the record that in the UK, accident claims industry is worth 6 billion, and a considerable part of this is due to workplace accident claims. Now, the question emerges that is really an employer responsible for the accident, and why people claim for compensation for the accidents occurred at work?

Well, it always depends on the accident. The Health and Safety Executive, or HSE, in the UK was put in place to protect employees by setting regulations for the workplace. Such regulations include the fact that an employer must provide, free of charge, the training required for you to do your job as safely as possible. They must also provide on site First Aid, any equipment and protective clothing required and a full document detailing Health and Safety procedures. These are just the very basic regulations. Any employer failing to meet the required standards of health and safety in the workplace faces prosecution.

In the events that an employee has an accident in the workplace and it is found that the employer was failing to meet HSE requirements in any way, then the employer is liable for that accident. It is this that is the main reason for workplace accident claims in the UK.

Well unlikely, the number of work place accidents is much larger than anyone would like it to be. It is from the records of HSE statistics for 2008/09 that 180 people were killed at work in accidents, and 246000 non-fatal accidents took place at work. Due to the common out-of-court-settlement of compensation, no official figures exist of the compensation sum for such accidents that takes place in the work places.

Though, sometimes, employer is not responsible for the accident, and all the regulations meet the requirements of HSE, yet the family can claim for the compensation, if a member of that family dies at the work place.

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