Hi everybody Bit of a difficult subject but here goes. I have been asked to compile an individual risk assessment for one on my company's employees. He is approximately 26 stone and we have had to adapt a few of our work processes to accommodate his size. He is a very good worker but we have one or two issues that need addressing. Part of his job responsibilities is to drive a step on motorised pallet truck. We have had to replace the footplate on the truck a couple of times due to damage caused by excessive weight of the driver. Have any of you had to deal with an issue similar to this because of overweight employees, if so I would be very interested to read your comments and how you dealt with them. Steve w

HI, I've had this before and he couldn't get up the ladder to work on roof. Person in early 20's over 25 stone We changed his job to something on ground level, with Occ Health got some support with his eating habits together with his GP etc. Condition was he went to support classes etc similar to employees with excessive alchol He did lose weight and managed to change his excessive eating. All his workmates helped too - a joined group. Worked well as I think he was probably at the stage that he wanted help. Lilian