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<blockquote data-quote="AliciaWarren" data-source="post: 2153410" data-attributes="member: 400050"><p>I don't know UK Health and Safety in the workplace law as I am in NZ. But I suspect that it would be useful to ask your manager to imagine a scenario by asking a "what if" question. What if I pass out behind the bar counter in a hypo coma because the bar was really busy and I had no opportunity to monitor my BG or get my treatment. Firstly there is a chance that I might die there before someone called the ambulance or I got treated and secondly if there was an investigation into how it happened, how would it look if the investigation found out that it happened because this company banned me from keeping my treatment on me, and didn't make it easy for me to monitor my BG at regular intervals and treat myself at busy times. Another useful what if question might be, what if the customers thought my behavior was due to being drunk when in fact it was caused by hypoglycaemia and was a medical emergency. Wouldn't you rather empower me to treat the symptoms discreetly and rapidly, so there is no chance that this could happen? You could also ask your doctor to write a letter to your employer explaining the realness of your need to have treatment handy and enclose with it an educational pamphlet about diabetic coma, how to recognize it and what to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AliciaWarren, post: 2153410, member: 400050"] I don't know UK Health and Safety in the workplace law as I am in NZ. But I suspect that it would be useful to ask your manager to imagine a scenario by asking a "what if" question. What if I pass out behind the bar counter in a hypo coma because the bar was really busy and I had no opportunity to monitor my BG or get my treatment. Firstly there is a chance that I might die there before someone called the ambulance or I got treated and secondly if there was an investigation into how it happened, how would it look if the investigation found out that it happened because this company banned me from keeping my treatment on me, and didn't make it easy for me to monitor my BG at regular intervals and treat myself at busy times. Another useful what if question might be, what if the customers thought my behavior was due to being drunk when in fact it was caused by hypoglycaemia and was a medical emergency. Wouldn't you rather empower me to treat the symptoms discreetly and rapidly, so there is no chance that this could happen? You could also ask your doctor to write a letter to your employer explaining the realness of your need to have treatment handy and enclose with it an educational pamphlet about diabetic coma, how to recognize it and what to do. [/QUOTE]
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