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What is Failure to Train?
Failure to train refers to an employer or responsible party’s failure to provide adequate instruction, education, or guidance to workers on how to safely and effectively operate specific industrial equipment. This type of negligence can lead to accidents, injuries, or even fatalities, as workers may not be familiar with the machinery's proper use, safety protocols, emergency procedures, or potential hazards.
The elements of failure to train in industrial machinery operation include:
- Lack of Initial Training: Employees may not receive sufficient training before using complex equipment. This can involve overlooking how to operate the machinery, handle safety features, or follow emergency shut-off procedures.
- Inadequate Safety Instructions: Workers may not be taught about specific dangers, such as pinch points, electrical hazards, or high-pressure systems, which could result in injury if mishandled.
- Failure to Provide Ongoing Training: Industrial machines can undergo upgrades, modifications, or replacements. Employers are required to keep training up to date, reflecting new features or risks.
- No Certification Requirements: For some machinery, formal certification or licensing may be required, and if workers are not properly certified or tested, it reflects a failure to ensure they are competent operators.
- Lack of Supervision or Oversight: Proper training includes practical, supervised experience, but if this step is skipped, workers might misuse equipment.
- Failure to Train on Emergency Procedures: Workers should know how to react in case of equipment failure or emergencies, including proper shutdown and first aid response.
In the last 14 years, Shoop & team's impressive track record includes hundreds of Product Liability cases resulting in verdicts or settlements exceeding $1 million. For a Product Liability team with an exemplary track record, clients choose Shoop.
Industrial Machinery Accident Lawyer in Los Angeles
Our firm provides vigorous representation to clients seeking compensation for industrial machinery accidents in the Los Angeles area.
After an accident involving failure to train or warn, our firm will do the following for the victim or victim's family:
- Where there has been a machinery accident involving a client, we diligently investigate for the cause of the accident.
- We consult the client's physician to learn what care the client will need in the future.
- We checks for design, manufacturing and marketing defects.
- We thoroughly review all promotion and signs on the equipment to determine failures to warn.
- We bring suit to obtain damages for medical bills, ambulance costs, hospitalization, rehabilitation expenses, and pain and suffering.
- Where the victim died in the accident, we seek wrongful death compensation on behalf of the family.
It is not enough for a warning to be buried in the fine print of a handbook. It must be stated clearly and prominently so that a user would be likely to read what it says. Where the manufacturer fails in its duty to warn, our attorneys bring a lawsuit for damages.
Contact a Los Angeles Industrial Machinery Accident Attorney at the firm for energetic representation of claims for failure to warn of industrial machinery dangers.
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