Colour vision standards for firearms officers The employer succeeded in showing justification as regards a police officer with defective color vision being withdrawn from firearms duties...
Health and safety as a justification for disability discrimination Summary An argument that health and safety justifies excluding a woman or someone with a disability or someone from an ethnic minority etc m...
Health risk on overseas assignment Diana Kloss considers the case of an employee with multiple health conditions who was turned down for an overseas assignment. Might he have ...
Overseas assignment refused for health reasons The Court of Appeal held it was not direct discrimination, and was justified on the facts, to refuse to send an employee with multiple healt...
Race and religion or belief Summary Race and religion have been combined on this page because they tend to be less important in an occupational health (OH) setting than...
Where is consent not needed? Summary To set the context, OH practitioners are subject to a common law duty of confidence. Breach of this can give rise to a civil action ...
Dismissal for urinating in loading yard A lorry driver with type 2 diabetes dismissed for urinating in a loading yard succeeded in claims for disability discrimination and unfair d...
Whistleblowing protection Summary Whistleblowing legislation protects workers against dismissal or other detriment if they make ‘protected disclosures’. This can incl...
Testing to protect others, including drugs and alcohol Summary The GDPR applies. Generally testing should be minimised and used only so far as justified. Health and safety reasons will normally b...
Pregnancy and maternity under health & safety regulations Summary Even without any employee being pregnant, an employer must perform a risk assessment if there are staff of child-bearing age and the...
