Can I Claim Of My Company

[BigRooster]

3 or 4 years ago I made it official to my company that the work I was doing was effecting my shoulder to the point I gave up playing bowls because of the pain .
For many years before I kept asking if I could have a spell doing other jobs to help me but the answer was always no because I was faster than others .
In the last few years I’ve had physio injections and plenty of pain killers and now I’m going to have a op on my shoulder to repair a tarred tendon which has healed badly.
Question is do I have grounds for a claim .

[bobbinwales]

Yes

[bednobs]

I would say no

[bobbinwales]

Did you provide medical reports/doctors notes to support your requests as them would help

[jno]

the more records you've kept (including meetings with management) the better

[Hymie]

Yes, and I would agree with jno.

For more years than I can remember now, every year I’ve had an assessment of my PC workstation at work – including input from me. The output of the assessment is a short written report; some believe that the purpose of this assessment is to ensure my wellbeing at work – it is not, it ensures that I could not make a successful claim for repetitive strain injury (or similar) through my work activities.

If your employer has not conducted regular assessments of your work activity, including a risk assessment, and any reasonable steps they could take to mitigate injury – they are already on dodgy ground. Even without documentarily evidence of your complaints, I would bet the company would settle out of court.

But you might also considering finding alternative employment – suing them is unlikely to make you employee of the month, anytime soon.