Regulation 7A Health assessments for night workersF1

(1)

An employer shall—

(a)

not assign a worker to work which is to be undertaken during periods such that the worker will become a night worker unless—

(i)

the employer has ensured that the worker will have the opportunity of a free health assessment before that worker takes up the assignment; or

(ii)

the worker had a free health assessment before being assigned to work to be undertaken during such periods on an earlier occasion, and the employer has no reason to believe that the assessment is no longer valid, and

(b)

ensure that each night worker has the opportunity of a free health assessment at regular intervals of whatever duration may be appropriate in the night worker’s case.

(2)

Regulation 7(3) shall apply to free health assessments undertaken for the purposes of this regulation.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Regs. 7-7D substituted for reg. 7 (5.1.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Working Time Inland Waterways) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1149), regs. 1(2), 9