Disabilities

The HSE has published research looking at whether health and safety requirements were being used as a "false excuse" for not employing or continuing to employ disabled people or people with an injury or ill-health condition. It revealed that "health and safety is frequently being used as the rationale for non-recruitment or dismissal of a disabled person", but found "considerably more evidence" of employers overcoming health and safety difficulties to retain someone with a disability, ill health condition or injury.

RR167 - The extent of use of health and safety requirements as a false excuse for not employing sick or disabled persons (RR167/2003) is available at: www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrhtm/rr167.htm or from HSE Books, £25