Rojgar Job News

What are our health and safety obligations in respect of staff working from home? Within a few weeks, maybe now only a few days, there will be more UK employees working from home than ever before. It remains to be seen whether this will herald irreversible longer-term changes to the traditional commuter model, but in the short-term, and assuming you can make it work logistically and managerially, is it ok legally? In particular, how far do your obligations to provide a safe system at work under the Health & Safety at Work Act apply once the employee has watered his plant for the last time, packed up his laptop and headed home to carry on your business from his kitchen table? Section 2 HSWA imposes an obligation on employers to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of all its employees. Section 2(2) expands that to require the provision of appropriate instruction, information and training, and Section 2(2)(e) refers to the making of “arrang...