Employers owe a duty to ensure that they don’t cause illness or injury to their employees or anyone else who might be hurt by their operations. In most cases, it will be an employee who contracts an industrial disease but it can be others – for example relatives who suffer when exposed to asbestos fibres brought home on the employee’s clothes.
There is a vast array of diseases and illnesses which can be caused by exposure to substances at work and our lawyers can help if you think you have been affected by your work. The main types of disease are:
