Responsibility for employees on and off site, October 2010
21.10.2010
Every employer owes a duty to its employees to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the safety health and welfare of its employees at work. This duty is expanded to include a number of particular duties, such as the manner in which the work activities are managed and conducted, ensuring safe systems of work and plant and equipment, securing safe access to and from the place of work and providing necessary information and training.
But what about when your employees are working elsewhere, either in public areas or at the premises of another company? What about your employees who are required to drive for work? And what are your duties for another company’s employees who are working at your place of work? Employers’ duties extend to their employees both on and off site, and to the employees of other companies where they are working at your premises or where you are both working at a shared place of work.
