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Posted By Mike Armstrong
Hello all, im not sure if this is an health and safey issue, rather an hr issue, but some of you may know the answer-
can an employer of which has cctv installed in the workplace, us the cctv as an aid to catch employees out regards arriving and leaving the premises.
best regards
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Posted By The toecap
Well yes.
They could say that you left the premises without notifying them. Thus putting themselves in danger.
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Posted By CFT
You would find it next best thing to impossible to say they were installed to monitor staff comings and goings. They may well say "whilst the cameras were doing their usual task, it was noticed that.........
There really is little argument that you can offer in terms of (I assume perhaps incorrectly at any rate) invasion of privacy; I would just go with the flow and accept it as a further tool to monitor from a positive point of view. Lord knows, we should all be used to cameras watching our every move by now.
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Posted By John Murgatroyd
The employer can use video surveillance for almost any reason, since the law-of-the-land fails to recognise personal privacy.
There may be exceptions under criminal law (voyeurism, sex offences act 2003) and the data protection act means they should have registered that they are using cctv to monitor people, but apart from that....yes....it is ok to monitor employees.
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Posted By Martin Taylor
On a slightly different topic - can anyone recommend a good source of info on the rules and regs for accessing and using CCTV footage
We are just compleeting an installation and from what I have seen already I have loads of material for an epic safety film on how not to do things, Would it be legit to use the footage in training films though??
thoughts, advice and info please
Martin
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Posted By John Murgatroyd http://www.ico.gov.uk/wh...ver/data_protection.aspxFor information. One assumes that you have registered under the relevant act ? So you will have a "data controller" ? You will have to keep the "data" secure, and limit access. You will not be able to make copies of your film and hand it out to anyone about. You will have to conceal the identities of those on the film if you us it. If you don't, you will need permission of everyone on the film. Everyone on the film, and everyone else, will be able to make a "subject access" request for access to the information you hold about them, which includes the video, however it is stored. Which means you will need, or will have to hire, someone/some-company to do the editing and copying to comply with requests. Failing all this, you can: Not register. Not tell anyone you are monitoring them. Let anyone have copies who wants them. Your choice. I know of one manager who hid a camera in the toilets to discover who spent more time there than others. One of his employees found the camera, which became embedded in his face shortly after. Oh, and a few years ago I made 400 camera brackets for a company to install cctv in a well-know store chain. They were/are installed in the roof space over the changing/trying rooms.
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