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Hi all, this maybe a stupid question but where do we stand if we were to work fom home permanently? At what point do employers responsibilities stop? For example, if an employee tripped over their cat while working from home, where do we stand? Are we responsible for conductign home safety visits or are photos and questionnaires & risk assessments suitable and sufficient?
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My understanding is you are responsible for the work activity - so any equipment you supply must be OK, and the person must be able to carry out the work activity safely. That does not mean that you are responsible for the fabrick or maintance of the home - or for them falling over the cat (unless you happen to be a pet bourding establishment) as thats not part of the work activity. Bit like them tripping over thier own shoelace in the office.
Here is the HSE's stance
https://www.hse.gov.uk/toolbox/workers/home.htm?utm_source=hse.gov.uk&utm_medium=refferal&utm_campaign=coronavirus&utm_term=home_workers&utm_content=home-page-popular
You do read horror stories in the press - like the lady who sued McDonalds when she slipped on coka a cola on the floor - which she had just thrown at her boyfriend. But most of these silly claims get thrown out on appeal - just not good news so they dont report that!
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What most tabloids miss out that ANYBODY can use for ANYTHING. It does not follow that these cases get anywhere let alone an appeal. Often, they get dismissed 10 minutes after they start but our esteemed journalist don’t mention that They just like to run stories about other people stupidity: never the stupidity of their readers, just other papers’ readers. Of course the danger is that people believe this rubbish and when the government decides to make it more difficult for ordinary people to go to court this is the sort of thing they quote, but then what to expect from a government that is lead by someone who started his career writing made up stories in the Telegraph about EU regulations on bananas.
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