Section 184 — Health and Safety at Work Act 2015: Health and safety medical practitioners may require workers to be medically examined

184 Health and safety medical practitioners may require workers to be medically examined (1) A health and safety medical practitioner may exercise the powers under this section if satisfied that— (a) any worker is, has been, or may have been exposed to a significant hazard while at work; and (b) by examining the worker or causing a sample taken from the worker to be tested or analysed, it is likely to be possible to determine— (i) whether the worker is or has been exposed to the hazard; or (ii) the extent to which the worker is or has been exposed to the hazard; or (iii) the extent to which the worker’s health has been or may have been affected by exposure to the hazard. (2) A health and safety medical practitioner may, by notice in writing to the worker,— (a) require the worker— (i) to be examined by a health practitioner; and (ii) to provide to the health and safety medical practitioner a certificate from the health practitioner as to the worker’s fitness for work: (b) require the worker— (i) to allow a person (or person of a kind) specified in the notice to take from the worker a sample of a kind specified in the notice; and (ii) to have the sample tested or analysed by a person (or person of a kind) specified in the notice in a manner specified in the notice; and (iii) to provide the health and safety medical practitioner with a written report from the person who tests or analyses the sample on the results of the tests and analyses done. (3) In this section and in section 185 , significant hazard means a hazard that is an actual or a potential cause or source of— (a) death; or (b) notifiable injury or illness the severity of whose effects on any person depends (entirely or among other things) on the extent or frequency of the person’s exposure to the hazard; or (c) notifiable injury or illness that does not usually occur, or usually is not easily detectable, until a significant time after exposure to the hazard. Compare: 1992 No 96 s 36