The accident claims industry in the UK is worth 6billion each year, which means that there are a fair few accidents happening in that time! All types of accidents are included such as work injuries, illness, medical negligence, falling over and road accidents. But for an accident claim to be valid it has to be someone else’s fault, it cannot be through the fault of yourself.
However, there are times people get injured when it is nobody’s fault but their own stupidity. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) kept a list for a few years of the various types of accident that were recorded, along with the cause of the accident. For accidents in the home there were all kinds of crazy results.
Accidents at their own home, away from the outside world are the best demonstration of this. 2.1million people hurt themselves in 2000 in the home. Fine, you may think, they fell off ladders, burnt themselves in the kitchen etc…..maybe not. 727 of these accidents were related to nappys. Apart from the smell it is very difficult to work out how you can get injured on a nappy. 426 injuries were from dog baskets, which makes you think if you simply decided not to have a child or dog you would be fine.
But aside from exercising caution with your coat hangers and stepping carefully around your armed and dangerous burglar alarm, there are steps you can take in the home to prevent some of the more serious incidents (such as scolds, burns and nasty slips and falls).
Apart from wrapping yourself, and everything around you, in cotton wool there are other ways that you can prevent the serious types of accidents like burns, falls etc. All very obvious, like not leaving thing lying around, keeping pan handles turned inwards etc. If these simply measures were followed there might be a lot less preventable, normal accidents around the home!
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