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Di I appreciate you as I am sure many others do. Enjoy your wine. Jeremy Jeremy R F Smith RGN BSc Hons (OHN) SCPHN Occupational Health Manager - KCC 01622 605518 (VPN 7000) EXT 5518 Occupational Health Service Commercial Services Building Gibson Drive, Kings Hill, West Malling ME19 4QG Personnel & Development Making KCC a Great Place to Work -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wed May 02 22:25:32 2007 Subject: [OCC-HEALTH] discrimination hello All Anyone else want to take a pop at me for the phrase "legitimately discriminate"? Let me explain discriminate (TREAT DIFFERENTLY) Show phonetics <http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?dict=CALD&key=22224&ph=on> verb [I] to treat a person or particular group of people differently Now most often to discriminate is thought to imply unfavourable treatment- however I meant it in the dictionary definition to treat a group of people differently. Which we do with pregnant women, breast feeding women and sometimes women of childbearing age e.g lead Statutory Instrument 2002 No. 2676 The Control of Lead at Work Regulations 2002 (4) Biological monitoring shall be carried out at intervals not exceeding those set out below - (a) in respect of an employee other than a young person or a woman of reproductive capacity, at least every 6 months, but where the results of the measurements for individuals or for groups of workers have shown on the previous two consecutive occasions on which monitoring was carried out a lead in air exposure greater than 0.075 mg/m3 but less than 0.100 mg/m3 and where the blood-lead concentration of any individual employee is less than 30 µg/dl, the frequency of monitoring may be reduced to once a year; or (b) in respect of any young person or a woman of reproductive capacity, at such intervals as the relevant doctor shall specify, being not greater than 3 months. And this is for their benefit , not in detriment. And it is legitimate legitimate Show phonetics <http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?dict=CALD&key=45473&ph=on> adjective 1 allowed by law: I rest my defence- I am clearly in need of ice cream and chilled white wine to restore my good humour and equanimity. Cheers Diane ________________________________ With Live Spaces email straight to your blog. Upload jokes, photos and more. It's free! It's free! <http://specials.uk.msn.com/spaces/default.aspx> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please remove this footer before replying. ARCHIVES http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES AND EDUCATIONAL EVENTS: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH JOBS http://OHJobs.drmaze.net OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING COURSES http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6232/aohne/