Use this page to find specialist guidance for your situation. Each page explains who can claim, what your employer must do under UK health and safety law, what evidence helps, and how compensation is calculated for that type of case.
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You don’t need a dedicated page for your job to have a claim — the same duties apply in every workplace. Shop, supermarket and stockroom staff are most often hurt by manual handling without lifting equipment, untreated spillages, badly stacked stock, and assaults by customers. Your employer must have inspection and cleaning systems that catch spills quickly — staff can’t be expected to spot every hazard — and, where lone working or violence is a foreseeable risk, provide protection such as alarms, adequate staffing and de-escalation training. Hospitality, cleaning, security and transport workers face similar risks. See slip, trip and fall claims, manual handling claims and workplace assault claims.
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