Damages over health and safety hazard

A shop steward who has fought for years for safer practices and member rights in the workplace has received £4,000 in compensation after an accident at work. The man jarred his shoulder as he disposed of clinical waste while working as an operating theatre orderly at a hospital. The hospital had been warned many times in the last five years that the clinical waste bins were a health and safety hazard. Despite these warnings nothing was done to make them safe.