Injury Awareness Week: Beyond The Statistics

In the UK, more than half a million workers were injured at work in 2023/24 – and that’s just the ones we know about. Someone else’s negligence can have a life-changing impact for you or someone you love. No one is immune to its impact.

Injury Awareness Week 2025 aims to raise awareness and give insight into the impact of needless injuries on victims and their families. The campaign is run by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), a national organisation working to make a difference for injured people across Britain.

Read on as we highlight how the APIL is building support that strives to minimise the impact made on all victims of negligence in their vital campaign.

Why We Need Injury Awareness Week 2025

The APIL’s mission is for a future without needless injuries. We can’t pre-empt every single accident, but injuries caused by someone else’s negligence can and should be prevented. During this week, we ask people to consider the often catastrophic impact of avoidable injuries, as well as thinking about what we all can do to prevent people from being injured in the first instance.

Protecting Your Bodily Integrity this Injury Awareness Week

This year’s focus is on bodily integrity. Matthew Tuff, President of the APIL explained,

“Bodily integrity is a fundamental human right. Your body is the only body you will ever have. It’s with you from your beginning until your end – so you should have authority over what happens to it. An injured person loses that.”

This Injury Awareness Week, we’re emphasising the importance of protecting bodily integrity for individuals who have suffered injuries due to negligence. Alongside suffering from physical symptoms of their injuries, victims can often feel that their bodily integrity has been violated.

Injury Awareness Week and the role of the law

The law ensures that everyone is protected from any harm or interference against their body without their consent. We can thank laws such as the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, and the Damages (Scotland) Act 2011 for their part in ensuring we feel safe at work and beyond.

But we know from statistics that not all employers adhere to the law. Injuries caused by negligence are imposed on people, stripping them of the autonomy they should have over their own bodies.

Personal injury law provides compensation so that injured victims of negligence can rebuild their lives as best they can. That’s where we come in.

Building beyond Injury Awareness Week

This Injury Awareness Week 2025, we want to encourage everyone to be conscious of the impact of preventable injuries. At Gildeas Solicitors we’ve seen countless preventable accidents resulting from negligence, whether it be from inattentive drivers, employers, in a clinical setting, or in a public place.

The outcome remains the same – a person’s life has been turned upside down, and maybe had its course altered forever, because someone else did not take proper care.

Injuries caused by negligence can be prevented, but it takes a collective effort and a commitment to safety. At Gildeas, we’re proud to champion this cause and strive towards a future where people feel safe – inside and outside of the workplace.

This Injury Awareness Week 2025, let’s not just acknowledging the devastating impact of injuries caused by negligence – but let’s also inspire change, and foster a culture of care and prevention. All of us have a role to play in making people feel safer so this week, lets commit to making safety a priority.

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If you or someone you know has been involved in an accident caused by someone else’s negligence, contact us today.