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Hydrogen Peroxide Vapour (HPV) Machine Workers – Industrial Disease Claims

Over recent years, many domestic healthcare workers in the health sector have been required to use hydrogen peroxide vapour (HPV) machines, such as Deprox vaporisation systems, to bio-decontaminate hospital rooms and wards. The solutions emitted by these machines contain toxic hydrogen peroxide and silver nitrate. - Oakwood Solicitors Ltd

Hearing Loss and Tinnitus claims procedure

Tinnitus and hearing loss can be as a result of working in loud environments. Is it possible to recover damages if this link can be proven. Tinnitus Claims. - Oakwood Solicitors Ltd

So This Is Christmas And They Have No-one

Article. Attributed to excessive consumption of alcohol and the added financial pressure, the amount of domestic abuse cases surge over Christmas.

Repetitive Strain Injury News (RSI)

RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) is caused by mechanical irritation which upsets the body’s highly-tuned natural balance. Read article:

Natasha Hardy Features In PI Magazine ‘PI Focus’

Take a look and see how one of our Industrial Disease solicitors, Natasha, won an impossible case getting her case featured in PI magazine 'PI Focus'.

Repetitive Strain Injury Q&A

Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) is used to describe pain felt in overused muscles and nerves as a result of repetitive movements. Find out more info on RSI.

The hearing loss compensation table is used as a guideline by the industrial disease solicitors from Oakwood in Leeds to estimate the amount of compensation you should be entitled to based on the level of deafness you have sustained.

If your hearing has been damaged by the excessive noise levels in your place of work it is your legal right as an employee to make a hearing loss compensation claim for the damage that has been caused Oakwood Solicitors can offer you no-win, no-fee legal representation to help you make a claim for the…

Workers compensation for hearing loss victims is available to any victim of deafness that has been caused by working in an excessively noisy environment in London without adequate protection from the hazards of the noise emissions. Oakwood Solicitors were able to award Mrs S with a total of £9113.00 in hearing loss compensation.

If you wish to proceed with a claim for industrial deafness recompense you can do so as soon as you have been diagnosed by a medical professional as suffering from a degree of hearing loss. Following your diagnosis if you think that your working conditions are or were to blame for the damage to your…