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FYI - BBC Wales news article today: An ambulance worker who caught Covid from a patient died as the result of an industrial disease, a coroner has concluded.
Coroner Paul Bennett said the greatest risk to him was "his employment." The acting senior coroner for Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire said he thought there was sufficient evidence that Mr Haigh had "two incidents of exposure" to Covid during the possible incubation period for the disease. Mr Haigh was working on the frontline as an emergency medical technician when he caught Covid. He began displaying symptoms on the 30th November. The inquest heard that Mr Haigh told a colleague he thought he had caught the virus from a patient. He was admitted to hospital on 7 December 2020 and died two months later.
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This is nothing new. The COSHH ACoP says that: Para 18 The general duties of COSHH apply to incidental exposure to, and deliberate work with, biological agents. However, COSHH does not cover a situation where, for example, one employee catches a respiratory infection from another. This is because regulation 2(2) specifies that COSHH only applies in those circumstances where risks of exposure are work related, and not those where they have no direct connection with the work being done. So if an employee turns up to work with Covid ( or Ebola for that matter) that is not in the control of the employer and so they have no duty in relation to that. On the other hand if the job involves a work related exposure/infection risk for example in a testing lab, working with sewage or transporting infected people then yes it needs to be managed. Edited by user 16 March 2023 12:14:18(UTC)
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