Under construction

Although an essential aspect to any company's insurance package, the triggering of an employers' liability claim can be a drawn out and disruptive process. Sarah Hills looks at ways brokers can help their clients avoid such a claim through simple, yet effective, risk management

With the Health & Safety Executive's (HSE) injuries-at-work results trickling out, it is clear that fatalities in the workplace are generally reducing in number. However, it is equally clear that there are one or two problem areas, with construction being one of them. Statistics show that at the smaller end of the construction market, there are a disproportionate number of serious workplace accidents.

The traditional method of dealing with such risks is to take out employers' liability (EL)

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