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<blockquote data-quote="candiloo" data-source="post: 381220" data-attributes="member: 56865"><p><strong>Re: Blood monitoring at work</strong></p><p></p><p>Your HR department/occ health should make sure you are allowed to go out and test when you are ready - look at the Equalities information Diabetes UK supply - and you should be allowed breaks to eat when you need to rather than when the company says. If you have any trouble from them, write a letter - 'reasonable adjustment' - and ask them to allow you to test and have time for your diabetes management. If you have a Union Rep or Equalitites rep at work, get them involved as they can ensure it happens, or if they won't allow it, it can go to appeal as it endangers your health. The Equalities information is amazing and helped me to get a job in a safer area when my Company were playing up making me do a job which meant I had a hypo every night. Also make sure with your reasonable request that your absences due to your diabetes is not counted within the absence management - especially if they are not allowing you to test when you need. As for where to test, I just pop out to my locker, as sometimes I wouldn't get any further anyway and do it there. No-one has complained, or sometimes I do it in a little corner in the canteen before I eat, but if they make a fuss, ask for the key to the first aid room to go there to do it. Everyone should read their rights and look at the Equalities information.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="candiloo, post: 381220, member: 56865"] [b]Re: Blood monitoring at work[/b] Your HR department/occ health should make sure you are allowed to go out and test when you are ready - look at the Equalities information Diabetes UK supply - and you should be allowed breaks to eat when you need to rather than when the company says. If you have any trouble from them, write a letter - 'reasonable adjustment' - and ask them to allow you to test and have time for your diabetes management. If you have a Union Rep or Equalitites rep at work, get them involved as they can ensure it happens, or if they won't allow it, it can go to appeal as it endangers your health. The Equalities information is amazing and helped me to get a job in a safer area when my Company were playing up making me do a job which meant I had a hypo every night. Also make sure with your reasonable request that your absences due to your diabetes is not counted within the absence management - especially if they are not allowing you to test when you need. As for where to test, I just pop out to my locker, as sometimes I wouldn't get any further anyway and do it there. No-one has complained, or sometimes I do it in a little corner in the canteen before I eat, but if they make a fuss, ask for the key to the first aid room to go there to do it. Everyone should read their rights and look at the Equalities information. [/QUOTE]
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