Railway Safety Act 2005
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Duties of safety critical workers and railway undertakings. |
87.—(1) It is the duty of a safety critical worker and is deemed to be a term of his or her contract of employment or contract of services (whether made before or after the passing of this Act) with a railway undertaking or with a person who has a contract of services with a railway undertaking— | |
(a) not to perform a safety critical task while being unfit, | ||
(b) not to make himself or herself available to perform a safety critical task by attending at work while being unfit, | ||
(c) not to do anything that is an offence under section 97 , and | ||
(d) to comply with the railway undertaking's code of conduct and sampling procedures. | ||
(2) It is the duty of a railway undertaking to take reasonable steps to ensure that a safety critical worker complies with his or her duties under subsection (1). | ||
(3) In this section, “unfit” has the meaning assigned to it in section 97 . |