Health, Safety and Pregnancy

[Reggie]

I take the point entirely about potential risk to future fertility and unborn children but as I said in my last post, anything that can affect a woman's body in such as serious way surely could be expected to have some effect on a man's body - ie. reducing sperm count, total infertility, impotence, increased risk of male cancers, etc. Do we really have enough scientific evidence to say that a site is safe for a man to work on but not a woman? I say this bearing in mind that it is generally accepted that women tend to be more body aware than men, visit the doctors more frequently for checkups/family planning etc. It may well be that that has not been sufficient research or documentation of male reactions to contaminants to say there is or isn't a risk.

For me though it comes down to this. I have the potential to have children but I have been married for 18+ years and made a decision not to have children long ago. Why should I be denied employment?