Posted By Charles New Try refering to Reg 11 of the Management (H & S)Regs 1999 ACOP, regarding co-operation and co-ordination between employers who share a workplace. (It is however often easier said than done!)

Posted By John Donaldson Your scenario of the tenant/landlord situation is not dissimilar to many universities who share premises with others, hospital trusts, MRC and university spinout companies etc. We are only in this in a small way but the larger universities will have considerable experience of this situation. So a few thoughts for you. You certainly need to be having a dialogue with your tenants and one way might be to write it into the lease. With of course some level of remuneration to yourselves. You also would need to set out what level of advise you are competent to give and if need be require them to seek specialist advice Your legal people might need to check if your companies insurance covers a safety advisory service to tenants. If you do not have this dialogue you will not know what they may be pouring down your drains or up fume cupboard stacks which could impact on consents which your own company has. You many get commercial confidentiality waved at you and the safety team may have to consider signing a confidentiality agreement with your tenants.