An employer who is aware of a foreseeable significant risk of psychiatric injury from a particular type of work cannot avoid liability by permitting the employee to continue that work on a part-time basis after the recognised safe period of full-time service has been exceeded. Part-time hazardous work must be considered in assessing whether the overall duration of service was excessive. Compulsory psychological reviews are required where the magnitude of the risk and gravity of potential harm warrant them, and the purpose of such reviews is to identify problems that operatives would not voluntarily disclose.
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