Workplace Risk Assessments

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Dear Civil Aviation Authority,

As the regulator for the airline industry with the responsibility for ensuring that workplace Health and Safety legislation is enforced in relation to U.K. registered aircraft and the safety of passengers and crew is being adequately protected, can the CAA confirm that every U.K. airline has provided its flight and cabin crew with a workplace risk assessment in accordance with Health and Safety legislation?

Yours faithfully,

Trudie Dadd

Civil Aviation Authority

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FOI Requests, Civil Aviation Authority

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FOI Requests, Civil Aviation Authority

Dear Ms Dadd

Thank you for your email. As you have asked a question rather than made a request for recorded information, we have not treated it as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Airlines have a duty to provide their employees with adequate health and safety protection. This would include good health and safety management practices, such as ensuring adequate risk assessment has been undertaken and, where required, communicated to crew members. The CAA has discussed this topic with airlines over many years to ensure that they understand these requirements but has not confirmed that every UK airline has provided its flight and cabin crew with a workplace risk assessment.

Yours sincerely

Mark Stevens
External Response Manager
Communications Department
Civil Aviation Authority

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