Posted By Stuart Nagle Jennifer. I take it you're referring to those who work at home in a home office as 'tele-workers' !! IOSH have a a recently reviewed paper -'Teleworking - out of sight, out of mind' that is available from this web site for downloading. (see the section' techncial Information.) For my own part, working from home, we have included this area within our policies, which is just being reviewed at present. I would hope that other companied who employ teleworkers also do the same. Regards... Stuart Nagle

Posted By jennifer offord Thanks for the responses To clarify my point I am not referring to home workers but to the issue of home safety as in that every employee lives in a house. Since home accidents account for more accidents than those in the workplace or those on the road I wondered if any organisation integrated home safety into health and safety training. While obviously not being a legal requirement and therefore lacking in one of the major drivers for safety management, it would have a benefit in reduction of accidents and therefore reduction in absence costs. Any further comments thanks Jennifer

Posted By John Webster Although home safety is not part of my remit, I find that it is useful to bring home safety into workplace safety training as it can often be used to illustrate the latter with the more familiar home hazards (and use the workplace precautions to emphasise complacency at home). So fire training includes the chip pan, fire blanket, smoke detectors and escape plan etc., PAT contrasts with the ancient electric blanket, CoSHH mixes bleach with Toilet Duck (no practical demonstrations!). I'm sure this helps to dispel the mystique of OSH and promote the idea of thinking safety at work and at home. John

Posted By Ken Taylor In support of this line of thought: At this year's RoSPA National Home Safety Congress we had a presentation from Bob Rae, Safety & Quality Manager, CCG (UK) Ltd telling us of the strategy employed by the Offshore Division of this catering company to include home safety as part of their efforts to prevent accidents. This will have been of particular value to the staff concerned as I understand that they spend half their time on shore leave at home and half 'on the rigs'.

Posted By Phil Grace Jennifer, When I worked for the UK subsidiary of a US organisation back in the 1980s "home safety" was a feature of their US activities that we failed to transfer "across the pond". I felt then(and still do)that this was a shame. A common approach to home safety and workplace safety reinforces the overal culture. There is the issue of costs, lost time etc within the workplace that result from out of work accidents. There is no doubt that as "mature" companies develop their approach to H&S to include behavioural safety the inclusion of home safety issues must help to reinforce the overall message. But I guess the reality is that taking on home safety before one gets a good handle on workplace H&S is perhaps not the best aproach. Hope this helps. Regards, Phil