Hi
The policy at my place of work was every 5 years after the age of 40 as
advised by HSE. However I have been seeing everyone this year as new to
the role and wanting to assess peoples health for myself. I have only
seen about 25 people and 5 of them have had high BP all requiring
referral to Gp and are now on medication following further
investigations. With this in mind I am testing all FLT operators 3
yearly and annually if health reason.
Hope this helps
Tracy
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From: John Burton <[log in to unmask]>
To: OCC-HEALTH <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:32
Subject: Re: [OCC-HEALTH] FREQUENCY OF SCREENING FOR FLT DRIVERS
Are replies here at risk of breeching age discrimination????
I work with 5 yearly
I do for persons over 60 state that they can attend annually to have a
check if they wish - my experience is that most do - keen at that age
to get a check as GP appts difficult to get
What do people think?
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Rita Ogden
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Hi,
Could I ask my esteemed colleagues who deal with fork lift truck
drivers how often you screen them? We carried out FLT screening a year
ago on our FLT drivers and vision screening was carried out also. As
the drivers need to be reassessed every 5 years in order to
re-register, do we need to rescreen at this point or more frequently?
Should they have eye testing done more frequently?
I appreciate any advice shared. Currently I am knee deep in
vaccinations for our students and I am hoping this post will save me
trawling through legislation!
With grateful thanks,
Rita
Rita E.Ogden
Lead Occupational Health Specialist Practitioner
Occupational Health Service
Appleton Building Room A202
Bradford College
Great Horton Road
Bradford BD7 1AY
Tel: 01274 433259
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