Description
Home Working Online Training Course
Home Working: – Course Overview
Who is responsible for health and safety when working from home?
Home Working is a growing trend and the percentage of the workforce that now work from home has increased significantly in the last decade. With more employees choosing to work from home, both employers and employees have responsibilities under Health & Safety legislation that now extends to the home. Homeworkers are expected to comply with all other relevant workplace policies and procedures, as they would if they were working in the employer’s workplace.
This Home Working online training course explains:
- Categories of home working and eligibility criteria.
- The importance of agreed entitlements and other conditions which may apply to a home working situation.
- General home working arrangements, such as insurance requirements.
- The importance of integrating health and safety requirements into the home working environment such as the set-up of a specific work area that is ergonomically sound, electrical safety, fire safety, preventing slips, trips and falls and how to report incidents.
Home Working: – Suitable for
The online Home Working training course is ideal for managers or any employees who will be working from home as part or all of their role, as well as senior management who would like to ensure they have a homeworking policy in place.
If you are interested in this, check out our Lone Working Online Training Course as well!