Workers Compensation for Hospital Workers

Articles On Workers Compensation Claims

Workers in public and private hospitals have a high risk for suffering a work place injury due to the very nature of these occupations.

The Health Industry Classification Project identified manual handling as the single largest cause of injuries to hospital workers such as nurses, hospital cleaners and ward assistants. Manual handling injuries in hospital workers can be caused by a variety of factors including:

  1. Manual handling of people.
  2. Manual handling of trolleys, linen and lead aprons.
  3. Slips, trips and falls.
  4. The use and adjustment of beds.

The main types of work place injuries for hospital workers involve sprains and strains to the back, upper limbs and lower limbs with the repositioning and transfer of patients in beds involved in nearly all of the activities where the injury occurred. A lot of these injuries accumulate over a period of time and may result in the worker being unable to continue working in this field.

In New South Wales workers injured at work are entitled to receive compensation for their injuries under the workers compensation scheme administered by WorkCover NSW.

If you are a hospital worker who has suffered an injury at work than you may be entitled to receive compensation for your injuries. This compensation can include payment of your medical and rehabilitation expenses and payments to cover your loss of wages. If your injury has resulted in a permanent impairment, meaning that it won’t improve, you may be entitled to a lump sum payment of compensation for this injury. Similarly, if you are unable to return to work because of your injury you may receive compensation for the loss of income from your working life.

Strict time limits apply under the New South Wales workers compensation scheme so it is important that you notify your employer as soon as you are aware of your injury as well as obtaining a doctors report on your injury.

Working in hospitals has long been recognised as a work place area with a large incidence of workplace injuries. Our expert team of lawyers and solicitors have acted on behalf of multitudes of hospital workers with mild to severe workplace injuries and we can assist you to receive your just entitlements to compensation.

At Walker Legal, our experienced Compensation Lawyers keep up-to-date on what's happening in the workers compensation area.

We act with knowledge and expertise to help people injured in work place accidents or those who have lost loved ones in work place accidents.

Call us to today on 1800 445 537 or email Steve Walker on sw@walkerlegal.com.au.

 

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