Whilst I take your point, my own experience is of angioedema, which
often cannot be traced to ANY particular allergen. It is infrequent, but
absolutely unpredictable.
The employee concerned could go 2 years between an attack, but it is
nonetheless serious when it happens.
In his case it was linked to Graves Disease, and always involved
swelling of the lips and mouth. No time to walk to a locker!
-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Milne Campbell
Sent: 19 June 2008 09:48
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [OCC-HEALTH] storage of medicines
Surely the need for an Epipen can be risk assessed / controlled, It must
be inappropriate to have someone working with a type 1 allergy in an
area of known allergen. Other 'ad-hoc' allergens e.g. insect stings etc
- are these not already controlled under a 'pest' policy in the food
industry.
Therefore if the person is unlikely to be exposed to an allergen then it
is reasonable to store a epipen at a suitable location (where the
individual, colleagues, OH and first-aiders can get it) - and it would
not be unreasonable for an additional pen to be purchased by the company
to further reduce the risk of the 'work' pen being forgotten moved etc.
-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Clare Atkinson
Sent: 18 June 2008 16:15
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [OCC-HEALTH] storage of medicines
Hi
does anybody have a storage of medicines policy that they would be
willing to share ?
Also does anybody have a policy regfgarding medication kept on the
person in food factories where this would normally not be allowed?
Clare
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