Pre-employment questionnaires: confidentiality and consent Summary OH professionals will be aware of the need to preserve confidentiality. In the light of data protection law guidance, health questio...
How long to retain health surveillance records Diana Kloss distinguishes between mandatory health records where the retention period is set by regulations, and OH’s confidential clinical ...
GDPR: new data protection rules We have now published fuller material on the GDPR in our ‘Data protection’ section. The GDPR, and also the Data Protection Act 2...
GDPR: the data subject’s right to information The GDPR and Data Protection Bill are due to take effect on 25th May 2018. Diana Kloss considers the privacy notices required to be given to...
Subject access requests under the GDPR The GDPR and Data Protection Bill are due to take effect on 25th May 2018. Diana Kloss considers workers’ rights to ask to see their health ...
The Data Protection Bill 2017 (Part 1) The Data Protection Bill was introduced into Parliament on 13th September. Diana Kloss looks at the new Bill and EU data protection regulati...
Archive: Data Protection Act 1998 This part of the website preserves our web pages on data protection as the law applied before 25th May 2018. There are new pages on the GDPR...
Genetic screening This is only rarely done at present in the UK in the workplace, and now banned in the US, with a few exceptions. The only possible justifica...
DPA 1998: Employment practices code and guidance This part of the website preserves our web pages on data protection as the law applied before 25th May 2018. There are new pages on the GDPR...
DPA 1998: the data controller This part of the website preserves our web pages on data protection as the law applied before 25th May 2018. There are new pages on the GDPR...
