“…Concerns were about workplace safety risks in the present, and future risk if an employee turned out to be unreliable or unable to do the job [4,9,27,30,32,39,[45][46][47]50]. This was particularly acute when a potential employee had a long-term condition that was (or was perceived to be) unstable or deteriorating [39,40,46,50]. Concerns about risk negatively affected hiring decisions, but employment support and advocacy services were seen as a "safety net" by employers in some studies, and it was mainly experiences with people with long-term conditions in the workplace that shifted employer beliefs and expectations [31,32,50].…”