The Health & Safety At Work Act 1974 places a general duty upon your employer to safeguard your health & safety at work. It also places a duty upon them to ensure that others, such as patients, visitors etc, who might be affected by the way the work is undertaken are not put at risk.

The Health & Safety At Work Act 1974 also puts a duty upon you to take reasonable care of your own health & safety and to co-operate with your employer in any measures he puts in place to manage health & safety.

As natural rubber latex is a substance hazardous to health your employer will undertake a risk assessment of its use, eliminating it where appropriate, substituting to other less hazardous substances, or limiting exposure where its use is deemed absolutely necessary. You will be informed of the results of this assessment and the measures you need to control the risk.

You will also be informed of steps that are deemed necessary to protect yourself, other colleagues, or patients with a known allergy to natural rubber latex.