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Hi, would really appreciate some advice on this - this is not about workers in in the community but more about staff working (administration) in their own home. What are our responsibilities as an employer? Assume that we are responsible for any equirpment that we provide the staff to enable them to work from home, but what about the environment and desks etc?
For example, if they trip up on a trip hazard within their home whilst working surely we are not liable?
Thanks
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Helen, like most situations in H&S, it depends on the circumstances. If little Jimmy has lefty his teddy bear at the top of the stairs and your employee trips & falls, it is hard to see how liability could rest with the employer. However, if you have required the same employee to store boxes of files with no appropriate storage facilities and the pile of files is the culprit for the trip then yes, there is likely to be significant liability resting on the employer.
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This area is developing and the case law is still untested. One recent case was an examiner working for an examination board from home. A laptop she was provided with by the board to mark the exams on caught fire and damaged her house. Who would be liable?
As far as I recall nothing has been decided yet so we have to rely on “common sense”, which might be what David Bannister said but sometimes it might not be so obvious
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