To successfully claim compensation for work related RSI, the following 3 things must be proven:
Your employer ought to reasonably have foreseen that the work you were asked to do carried a risk of causing a repetitive strain injury;
They could and should have taken steps to avoid or minimise the risk of RSI;
That your repetitive strain injury was caused by your employer not taking these steps.
You must also have a diagnosis of a recognised repetitive strain injury, such as tennis elbow or tendonitis.
You may want to find out if anyone else at your work experienced similar problems. This can help with your claim if they had symptoms too.
We can gather statements from past or present colleagues and if other members of staff doing similar work are also suffering from RSI, it may suggest that your workplace is the cause of the problem.
It’s also often the case that symptoms of work-related RSI improve when people aren’t performing the work, either on holiday or on sick leave. Again, this would point towards the workplace being the problem as you won’t be doing the same repetitive movements when you’re on leave.