Hazardous Substances: Health Professions
Commons · Question 84444 · Tabled 22 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Luke Akehurst
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he will require NHS employers to provide ongoing (a) education, (b) training and (c) health surveillance for all staff who (i) handle and (ii) may be exposed to hazardous medicinal products.
Answer
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 30 Oct 2025
Where hazardous medicinal products (HMPs) are substances hazardous to health within the meaning of The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (as amended) (COSHH), every employer is required to provide that employee with suitable and ...