If a contract person is facing a health issue, but his nature of work is in a risk area (e.g., height work, lifting of hardware materials, maintenance-related work), and there are no other vacancies to move the particular person from the current department to another department, what can the employer do in this scenario? If he continues, unfortunately, any mishaps that happen at his workplace will legally make the company responsible. What is the better solution for the above problem, please?
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Dear M Bharath,
Your post provides a very generic description. What is the specific health issue? What is the nature of the work? Occupational risks can be mitigated by utilizing technological means. For example:
- Work at Height: Provide an aluminum ladder, which can also be vehicle-mounted.
- Lifting of hardware materials: Provide a forklift or hydra.
- Maintenance-related work: Specify the type of maintenance work and its impact on health.
If a worker reports a health issue, advise them to consult a doctor and obtain a fitness certificate. In case of an accident, you may be liable to pay compensation.
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Dinesh Divekar
From India, Bangalore
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Your post provides a very generic description. What is the specific health issue? What is the nature of the work? Occupational risks can be mitigated by utilizing technological means. For example:
- Work at Height: Provide an aluminum ladder, which can also be vehicle-mounted.
- Lifting of hardware materials: Provide a forklift or hydra.
- Maintenance-related work: Specify the type of maintenance work and its impact on health.
If a worker reports a health issue, advise them to consult a doctor and obtain a fitness certificate. In case of an accident, you may be liable to pay compensation.
Thank you,
Dinesh Divekar
From India, Bangalore
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Generic reply would be: The person should seek another "suitable" employment if he is not feeling well with the present place of working. As mentioned, the person is a contract worker, so the PE has to report the same to the contractor. The employee has to get in touch with the contractor and ask for a suitable site/place deputation or replacement. Every job has some type of hazard; even IT industry workers can get an electric shock from their charging points or power plugs.
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Dear Bharath,
All persons are not fit for work at height, it is mostly due to “Acrophobia” an intense fear of heights. Besides acrophobia, the height sickness is associated with blood pressure, weak heart, pulmonary disfunction, suffer from epilepsy, diabetes, obesity and psychiatric conditions. Therefore, specific health check-up is conducted to access the suitability of the person to work at height.
You should not put the person in that area of work which is exposing threat of an accident owing to his physical fitness/condition after knowing the fact. You call the contractor to change the person as is not fit to work at height.
Please do some brain storming as a welfare measure to assign some other work. If there exist no opportunity then ask the contractor to do the full & final settlement as per norms, prior to full & final settlement take a medical report that the person is not fit for assigned job.
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All persons are not fit for work at height, it is mostly due to “Acrophobia” an intense fear of heights. Besides acrophobia, the height sickness is associated with blood pressure, weak heart, pulmonary disfunction, suffer from epilepsy, diabetes, obesity and psychiatric conditions. Therefore, specific health check-up is conducted to access the suitability of the person to work at height.
You should not put the person in that area of work which is exposing threat of an accident owing to his physical fitness/condition after knowing the fact. You call the contractor to change the person as is not fit to work at height.
Please do some brain storming as a welfare measure to assign some other work. If there exist no opportunity then ask the contractor to do the full & final settlement as per norms, prior to full & final settlement take a medical report that the person is not fit for assigned job.
From India, Mumbai
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