Carr,
As always a *star.
Thanks dawn
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Sent: 08 May 2013 18:37
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Subject: Re: [OCC-HEALTH] New starters health screenin
Hi Dawn
As far as I understand the current consensus is that only questions appropriate to the role should be asked based on 2 premises:
1. there is little evidence to support the validity of pre-placement general medical "testing"
2. Madan and Williams argue that excessive questions are a breach of the data protection act and it's instruction that only relevant data be held (I'm sure my colleagues probably have the more appropriate wording ) so you have to be able to justify that relevance which brings you back to the first point (Madan and Williams)
There is no limit on the number of questions that can be asked under the EA
Over the last 5 years I have seen a definite shift from a large questionnaire towards the smaller role orientated ones on this basis.
Diana Kloss covers it in her OH Law book http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781444319712.ch4/summary if you can get access to it on line.
I attach a slew of articles I found recently doing a literature search on the subject; the one from 2005 is particularly interesting.
http://www.nhsemployers.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/HealthAndSafetyEssentialGuideHealthAssessments2012.pdf - gives a very good succint "manager's guide" to the bigger document above including a link to a sample "work based assessment" as it is recommended pre-placement assessments should be called in future.
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