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Not had a risk assessment at work yet

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L96F · 16/03/2022 17:15

I'm currently 17 weeks pregnant. On my opinion my job is high risk. I'm a homecarer. Visit a different person in their own home every 30 minutes or so for my shift. Each visit contains lots of different care aspects. My main argument is manual handling of people which I am trained to do but this is done alone by my self moving a person who cannot do so with equipment. It's a lot of strain on the body pregnant or not. I've requested a risk assessment numerous times and my line manager first replied that she was going to get someone to ring me that week no one ever did. Since then every email I have sent has been ignored. This week I went down the route of speaking to someone in the office about creating a regular rota with clients who I am comfortable with seeing. They said they will look and now I'm again being ignored. I'm currently classed as a high risk pregnancy which I've also tried to explain to them and still not getting anywhere. Can anybody give me some advice please!

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HungryKoala · 16/03/2022 17:21

No advice, just to say I'm in a similar position. 18+4 weeks and working in a physical role and no risk assessment either. Hope you get yours soon.

L96F · 16/03/2022 17:26

Thankyou, I hope you get yours to. I think it's appalling

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unknownscot · 16/03/2022 18:27

Similar job - I refused to work until my risk assessment was done. That got them moving.

FYI - you should have a risk assessment every trimester, or if you feel different at any stage.

L96F · 16/03/2022 18:42

That's going to be my next thing I'm going to do and possible ring ACAS if that would help?

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