Hazard identification and risk management

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• Type:

  FAQs

  When should an employer carry out health surveillance?

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Workplace hazard identification form

  A model form to record identified hazards.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Workplace hazard report form

  A model form for employees to report hazards that they have identified.

• Type:

  Policies and procedures

  Safe car travel policy

  A model policy to outline your organisation's rules on travel by car for work-related purposes and the steps to be followed to reduce the associated risks.

• Type:

  Quick reference

  Manual handling - risk assessments

  A table summarising the factors and questions that employers must consider when assessing manual handling operations involving a risk of injury.

• Date:

  21 February 2003

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Sex discrimination: Failure to carry out risk assessment for pregnant woman is discrimination

  In Hardman v Mallon, t/a Orchard Lodge Nursing Home, the EAT holds that a failure to carry out a risk assessment in respect of a pregnant employee as required by the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 amounts to unlawful sex discrimination. This is because carrying out a risk assessment is one of the ways in which a woman's biological condition during and after pregnancy is given special protection.

• Type:

  FAQs

  What are the key provisions of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999?

• Date:

  31 December 2000

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Wells v West Hertfordshire Health Authority

  In Wells v West Hertfordshire Health Authority (2000) Current Law 2000/2982, it was ruled that, when informed by an employee of a back problem and medical advice that she should avoid demanding physical work, the employer should have carried out a risk assessment of the employee's tasks and in particular the employee's ability to perform them given her medical condition.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Failure to assess risks may cause sex discrimination

  In Day v T Pickles Farms Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) says that an employer should not wait for written notification of an employee's pregnancy before carrying out a risk assessment, and that its failure to carry out an assessment may have caused the employee detriment within the provisions of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.

• Date:

  15 March 1999

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Sex discrimination: Failure to carry out risk assessment could have amounted to detriment

  In Day v T Pickles Farms Ltd, the EAT holds that an employer who failed to make an assessment of the risks to the health and safety of a woman of child-bearing age employed in a sandwich shop no later than the date she started working there, and certainly before she became pregnant, could thereby have subjected her to a "detriment" within the meaning of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.