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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