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PPE - Odour eaters??
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#1 Posted : 14 October 2005 14:10:00(UTC)
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Posted By lauraw Hi, Please can anyone help me with the following. I have recently been reccomended by the company occ health nurse to provide a member of staff with some 'special' safety footwear due to a medical complaint to make them more comfortable. This is fine. However, they have also reccomended that as a company we provide the person with 'odour eaters' on a regular basis. Do we have to do this? If anyone has any thoughts on this it would be much appreciated...
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#2 Posted : 14 October 2005 14:20:00(UTC)
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Posted By Dave Wilson Laura you MarksMark in disguise?
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#3 Posted : 14 October 2005 14:55:00(UTC)
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Posted By Lynne Ratcliffe Laura As a rule of thumb we always decide to follow the recommendations of our occ health provider - particularly if they have put it in writing. The 'pen is' mightier than the sword! and the written word can assist a compensation claim for foot fungus! Too much already! Happy Friday
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#4 Posted : 14 October 2005 15:10:00(UTC)
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Posted By lauraw Thanks for that, im sure it will cheer up the penny pinching department on a friday afternoon!
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#5 Posted : 14 October 2005 15:52:00(UTC)
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Posted By garyh This is NOT PPE! I would challenge the occ health providor.
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#6 Posted : 14 October 2005 16:00:00(UTC)
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Posted By Lorraine Shuker Perhaps the poor chap is being shunned by his collegues because of his smelly feet and this is causing occupational stress??
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#7 Posted : 14 October 2005 16:02:00(UTC)
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Posted By John Webster Is there a risk to work colleagues from this person's foot odour. If so, then this is an excellent example of controlling the risk at source using engineering solutions
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