Access to Risk Assessment Analysis

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If making an adjustment would increase the risk to the health and safety of any person (including the disabled person) then that is a relevant factor in deciding ‘reasonableness’. Suitable and sufficient risk assessments should be used to determine whether such risks are likely to arise (see section 3.21 Health and safety considerations )
 
Health and safety obligations should be used to underpin a best practice approach to disabilities and long-term health conditions, not to try to justify discrimination. Stereotypical assumptions about the health and safety implications of disability and health conditions should be avoided, both in general terms and in relation to particular disabilities and conditions.

Under health and safety law it is the duty of every employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all employees. Part of this duty is a requirement for all employers to assess the risks to the health and safety of all employees in the workplace and then to put in place measures that reduce the risks to as low a level as can reasonably be achieved. Genuine concerns about the health and safety of anybody (including a disabled employee) may be relevant when seeking to establish that disability-related less favourable treatment of a disabled person is justified. However, it is important to remember that health and safety law does not require employers to remove all conceivable risk, but to ensure that risk is properly appreciated, understood and managed.

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