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Hi all,
We are thinking of bringing in home working in Ireland, I`m looking for some Health and Safety guidance as this is a area that I wouldnt be familar with.
What are the necessities we need to ensure are in place for our solution from a Health and Safety Perspective releavnt to Safety, Health and Welfare Act 2005
The following is what i feel we should have in place.
- Initial Site Survey
- Risk Assessments
- Use of Work Equipment at Home
- Electrical Equipment
- Display Screen Equipment (DSE) As a company are we allowed to enter employees home to carry this out?
- Manual Handling Activities
- First Aid
- Lone Working
- New and Expectant Mothers (Home Workers)
- Reporting of Incidents
Are there any areas which I have missed out on? Any guidance or recommomendations will be greatly appreciated.
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Niamh Do you have home workers in the UK? If so, and you are happy that your policies for them are OK, then the same should be the same in the Republic of Ireland, as the legislative requirements are virtually identical. When it comes to transposing EC Directives, Dublin generally waits for the HSE to work out to do in Great Britain, and Northern Ireland and RoI then follow. They are not stupid in the Health and Safety Authority. HSE in GB has far more resources to work out what needs to be done. HSA does then make sure that references to health and safety are reversed. The main exception to this is in the transposition of the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive. HSE amended COSHH and NI amended COSHH (NI). HSA got the Minister to sign a new code of regulations specifically to transpose the Directive. The list in your posting would be a good starting point, though insisting on entry into employees' homes could be problematic - you might ask the homeworker to do their own assessment with a suitable question set and only ask to go in to help sort out any issues.
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Just use a self assessment form, you can't carryout a site survey and why you would is beyond me, you can not insist on gaining entery to someones home. I don't even think you could make it a preresquite as this could be deemed as destrimination if some allowed and some didn't allow entery. Not everyone lives the same or has the same standards of living. The fact you can't gain entry to carryout out a site survey or a home servey means you can't complete an adequate Risk Assessment. Incidents won't be reported and the difficulties are you can't investigate as they might let you in. First aids ok for minor injuries, because if you really hurt yourself you can't do nothing.
My recommendations are self survey, and my opinion is these are the worse regulations in existence . They have not been reviewed adequately for years, just little add ons about lap tops and phones. When the regs. came out people only had a computer at work, I used to do typesetting. Now every Tom, Dick and Harry have them. Ahhh thanks feel better now :)
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