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From IOSH Magazine. A preliminary hearing at an employment tribunal in Scotland has ruled that a charity caretaker’s long Covid symptoms amount to a disability under section 6 of the Equality Act 2010.  The potentially landmark decision comes after the Turning Point Scotland employee brought a case against his former employer claiming the social care developer and provider had unfairly dismissed and discriminated against him because of the ‘protected characteristics of disability and age’.…

By Nick Warburton IOSH Magazine A product surveillance study of telescopic leaning ladders sold online and in-store has found that 80% of the work at height equipment tested failed the required safety tests designed to keep users safe. The Ladder Association report, which has been produced in partnership with the East of England Trading Standards Association (EETSA) and Suffolk Trading Standards Imports Team, also reveals that more than half of the failed ladders were certified and sold as ‘compliant’ to standards such as CE marking. …

After a German man who fell down the stairs on the ‘commute’ to his home office was allowed to claim insurance, Louise Bland, partner in the corporate claims team at Eversheds Sutherland, asks what this means for UK employers’ duty of care to their workforce. ‘A man’s home is his castle’ – and sometimes, it seems, it is his federally approved place of work too.…