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• Bloodborne viruses
• Consent and confidentiality
  • Archive: Data Protection Act 1998
• Disability
  • What is a ‘disability’?
    • Disability: The definition
    • Disability: ‘Impairment’
    • Disability; ‘Long-term effect’
    • Disability: ‘Normal day-to-day activities’
    • Substantial adverse effect
    • Disability: Effect of medical treatment
    • Medical evidence to prove disability under the EqA
    • Mental health: Is there a ‘disability’ within the EqA?
  • Disability discrimination
    • Objective justification and disability
    • Health and safety as a justification for disability discrimination
    • Indirect disability discrimination (EqA s.19)
    • Disability: Discrimination by association
• Employment
• Equality Act 2010
  • Discrimination under EqA
  • EqA scope and liability
  • Protected characteristics under EqA
• Family-friendly measures
• Fitness to work
• Jurisdictions, and foreign workers
  • Managing sickness and absence
• Legal system: an introduction
• Mental health / Stress
• Personal injury (negligence)
• Pregnancy and maternity
• Age
• Tribunals and reports
• Unfair dismissal
• Whistleblowing
• Working time regulations

• Age
  • Age direct discrimination
  • Compulsory retirement
  • Fixed retirement ages for health and safety, and maximum recruitment ages
  • Age indirect discrimination
  • Age-related harassment
  • Age discrimination: exceptions and particular areas
  • Provision of services: age discrimination
  • Age: Health and safety legislation for younger workers
• Bloodborne viruses
  • Health and safety law on sharps injuries, incl needlestick directive
  • Personal injury claims and needlestick injuries
  • Equality Act and bloodborne viruses
• Consent and confidentiality
  • Data protection (GDPR)
    • GDPR: the controller
    • GDPR: what records are covered?
    • GDPR: Data protection principles
    • GDPR: Consent
    • GDPR: Conditions for lawful processing
    • GDPR: Privacy notices
    • GDPR: Worker’s right to request disclosure
    • GDPR: Security
    • GDPR: Miscellaneous
    • GDPR: Brexit
    • Freedom of information requests
    • Archive: Data Protection Act 1998
      • DPA 1998: what records are covered?
      • DPA 1998: the data controller
      • DPA 1998: the Data Protection principles
      • DPA 1998: Worker’s right to request disclosure
      • DPA 1998: Employment practices code and guidance
  • Duty of Confidentiality
  • Consent
  • Consent for OH reports
  • Pre-employment questionnaires: confidentiality and consent
  • If consent is not given, or is withdrawn
  • Where is consent not needed?
  • Seeking information from a GP or other doctor
  • Access to Medical Reports Act 1988
  • Report for judicial proceedings
  • Covert surveillance
  • OH records
  • Pressure to breach OH legal/ethical obligations
  • Good practice guide: Confidentiality and consent on a management referral
• Disability
  • What is a ‘disability’?
    • Disability: The definition
    • Disability: ‘Impairment’
    • Substantial adverse effect
    • Disability: ‘Normal day-to-day activities’
    • Disability: Effect of medical treatment
    • Disability: ‘Long-term effect’
    • Perceived disability
    • OH reporting on whether disabled
    • Medical evidence to prove disability under the EqA
  • Reasonable adjustments
    • Reasonable adjustments: detailed rules
    • Adjustments: What is reasonable?
    • Examples of reasonable adjustments
    • Attendance management and Equality Act
    • Sick pay, pay protection, and Equality Act 2010
    • Redeployment
    • Disability/health and disciplinary or grievance procedures
  • Disability discrimination
    • Disability: Direct discrimination
    • Discrimination arising from disability (EqA s.15)
    • Objective justification and disability
    • Health and safety as a justification for disability discrimination
    • Indirect disability discrimination (EqA s.19)
    • Disability: Discrimination by association
  • Knowledge of the disability under EqA
    • Disability: Is the employer treated as knowing what OH knows?
  • Types of disability
    • Obesity
    • Menopause
• Employment
  • Rights of workers and employees: introduction
  • Contract law
  • Employment contract or contract for services?
  • Workers
  • Employment contracts
  • Pay
  • Agency workers
• Equality Act 2010
  • Protected characteristics under EqA
    • Sex discrimination
    • Race and religion or belief
    • Sexual orientation and the EqA
    • Gender reassignment
  • Discrimination under EqA
    • Direct discrimination under EqA
    • Indirect discrimination
    • ‘Objective justification’ defence
    • Other EqA defences
    • Harassment in the EqA
    • Victimisation
    • Discrimination by association and by perception
    • EqA shift in burden of proof
    • Public sector equality duty (PSED)
  • EqA scope and liability
    • EqA: Employees and others covered by the employment provisions
    • Who is liable under the EqA?
    • Provision of services, and public functions
  • EqA Codes of Practice and Guidance
• Fitness to attend hearing
  • Is the worker fit to attend?
  • Adjustments to the meeting
  • Can hearing proceed without the employee?
  • Good practice guide: Fitness to attend capability and disciplinary interviews
• Family-friendly measures
  • Shared parental leave and pay
  • Paternity leave
  • Unpaid parental leave
  • Parental bereavement leave and pay
  • Time off for dependants (emergencies)
  • Right to request flexible working
  • Adoption
• Fitness to work
  • S.60 EqA: Pre-employment enquiries
  • Pre-employment: Equality Act
  • Lying at pre-employment
  • Testing to protect others, including drugs and alcohol
  • Health surveillance: Screening to protect the employee
  • Genetic screening
  • General health screening
• Jurisdictions, and foreign workers
  • United Kingdom jurisdictions
    • Scotland
    • Northern Ireland discrimination law
  • Working abroad: unfair dismissal and Equality Act
• Legal system: an introduction
  • Sources of law
  • Types of law: civil and criminal
  • Courts involved with disputes related to occupational disease and injury
  • Brexit
  • European Union (EU)
  • European Convention on Human Rights, and Human Rights Act
  • How to find the law
• Managing sickness and absence
  • Coronavirus (COVID-19)
    • Archive: Self-isolation regulations for Covid-19
  • Dismissal for long-term absence: Overview
  • Illness and unfair dismissal
  • Ill health dismissal and the EqA
  • If incapacity is due to the employer or work
  • Persistent shorter absences
  • Conflict of OH with other medical opinion
  • Good practice guide: dismissal of an employee after long-term sickness absence
• Mental health / Stress
  • Mental health: Is there a ‘disability’ within the EqA?
  • S.60 EqA: Coping with mental pressure
  • Personal injury: Occupational Stress
  • Personal injury: Traumatic shock
  • Stress under health and safety legislation
  • Protection from Harassment Act 1997
• OH regulation and liability
  • OH practitioner’s duty of care in civil law
  • OH practitioner liability under EqA
  • Criminal liability of OH practitioners
  • Indemnity for OH professionals
  • Revalidation
• Personal injury (negligence)
  • Personal injury
  • Vicarious liability in negligence claims
  • Personal injury: Voluntary assumption of risk
  • Asbestos-related disease, including mesothelioma: compensation
• Pregnancy and maternity
  • Pregnancy and maternity under health & safety regulations
  • Pregnancy and maternity under Equality Act 2010
  • Pregnancy: Employment protection rights
  • Pregnancy: Do health and safety laws override Equality Act?
  • IVF treatment
  • Surrogacy
• RIDDOR and other public disclosure
  • RIDDOR
  • Notification of infectious diseases (NOIDS)
• Tribunals and reports
  • Tribunal legal procedure
  • Tribunal remedies
  • Tribunals: The role of OH
  • Tribunals: Preparing the OH report
  • Tribunals: Giving evidence
  • Tribunal guidance on expert evidence
• Unfair dismissal
  • Unfair dismissal: the rules
  • Grievance and disciplinary procedures
  • Unfair dismissal: unsafe working conditions
• Whistleblowing
  • Duty to disclose poor practice?
  • Whistleblowing protection
• Working time regulations
  • Working Time
  • Paid holiday under Working Time Regulations