Equality Act and bloodborne viruses Is the condition a disability? Workers will have greater rights, including to reasonable adjustments, if a bloodborne virus is a disability ...
Health and safety law on sharps injuries, incl needlestick directive Summary The EU needlestick directive was implemented (in part) by the Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations 2013, ...
Colour vision standards for firearms officers A police force succeeded in showing it was justified in withdrawing an officer with defective colour vision from firearms duties, but not in...
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...
