Posted By Glyn Atkinson
In my opinion, yours!

Any contract worker should really only be accecpted to work on your premises if you feel that they are capable of performing their work safely.

That would take account of any external training record, experience gained with other companies, or not as the case may be.

Replace the agency tag with new starter, employed by you.

What training and awareness would you give that person?

Did you give the same to the agency worker, if not, why not?

Same tasks, same work location, only difference probably is pay scale amounts and tenure of employment.

He walks through your door to work, and you now have duty of care to maintain a safe system of working, including any on site training requirements that you feel would be necessary to prevent accidents or injuries from his normal work practice.

Very close to my heart at the moment as we have to sort out agency FLT drivers on a fairly regular basis for our sites, and we have to prove full control of their abilities and safety to our insurers and our co-workers.

Posted By GARRY WIZZ
You carry the can. You are the employer,

Garry