Blog: Covid-19 - safeguarding home workers’ health and safety
The risk posed by Covid-19 has led many employers to set up home working for all or some of their employees as a way of reducing the risk to employees of exposure to Covid-19. Clare Bone, partner and solicitor advocate at BTO, argues the fact that an employee is now working from home, rather than their usual place of business, does not negate an employer’s duty.
Employers have a duty under Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all their employees. They must
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