197Health monitoring for work subsequently identified as lead‑risk work

197 Health monitoring for work subsequently identified as lead‑risk work

(1) An employer must, as soon as reasonably possible after work is identified as lead-risk work, arrange for a registered medical practitioner to conduct a medical examination and biological monitoring of an employee engaged in that work if—

(a) the work was not identified as lead-risk work at the time the employee was first engaged in the work; and

(b) after the employee was engaged in the work, the work is identified as lead-risk work; and

(c) the employer had not, before the identification of the work as lead-risk work, provided for a medical examination or biological monitoring of the employee.

(2) In this regulation the duties of an employer in relation to medical examinations and biological monitoring extend to an independent contractor.