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- Health & Safety and Pregnancy in Clinical Imaging and Radiotherapy Departments: A Guide for pregnant women, breast feeding women

Health & Safety and Pregnancy in Clinical Imaging and Radiotherapy Departments: A Guide for pregnant women, breast feeding women
Published:
1 July, 2011
ISBN:
9781-906225-31-5
Summary
The Society of Radiographers has updated this advice and guidance document on the subject of health, safety and pregnancy in response to questions and concerns raised by our members, representatives and managers. This guidance also gives advice on current health and safety legislation relating to pregnancy. Finally there is a section on legal rights of pregnant employees including benefits and extracts from the Agenda for Change staff terms and conditions handbook
Contents of this document
- Introduction (486 words)
- Section 1: Health and safety legislation (2328 words)
- Health and safety legislation
- The Health and Safety at Work Act (HASAWA) 1974
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992
- Regulation 3: Risk Assessment.
- Regulation 16:
- Good practice
- Bad practice
- Regulation 17:
- Regulation 18: Notification by new or expectant mothers
- Approved code of Practice:
- Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
- Regulation 25:
- Regulation 25 (4)
- Other key legislation for the protection of new or expectant mothers
- Employment Rights Act 1996
- Sex Discrimination Act 1975 amended 1986:
- Breast feeding.
- Bad practice
- SoR reps' checklist:
- Section 2: Hazards, risks and how to avoid them (6 words)
- Section 3: Maternity rights and benefits (265 words)
- Section 4: AFC agreements on maternity leave and pay (403 words)
- Annex A: Resources (6 words)
- Annex B: Tribunal cases (210 words)
- Annex C: References and bibliography (704 words)
- Annex D: Further information (102 words)
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Health & Safety and Pregnancy in Clinical Imaging and Radiotherapy Departments: A Guide for pregnant women, breast feeding women
- Introduction
- Section 1: Health and safety legislation
- Health and safety legislation
- The Health and Safety at Work Act (HASAWA) 1974
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992
- Regulation 3: Risk Assessment.
- Regulation 16:
- Good practice
- Bad practice
- Regulation 17:
- Regulation 18: Notification by new or expectant mothers
- Approved code of Practice:
- Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
- Regulation 25:
- Regulation 25 (4)
- Other key legislation for the protection of new or expectant mothers
- Employment Rights Act 1996
- Sex Discrimination Act 1975 amended 1986:
- Breast feeding.
- Bad practice
- SoR reps' checklist:
- Section 2: Hazards, risks and how to avoid them
- Section 3: Maternity rights and benefits
- Section 4: AFC agreements on maternity leave and pay
- Annex A: Resources
- Annex B: Tribunal cases
- Annex C: References and bibliography
- Annex D: Further information
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