Learning about health and safety for homeworkers is essential for employers of current or potential homeworkers, as well as anybody who works from a home environment.
Working from home is an increasingly popular option, but health and safety are often overlooked, which can create practical and legal problems for both employer and employee.
This course covers everything you need to know about health and safety for homeworkers, including a detailed checklist of factors to consider and the requirements under UK law. It discusses the importance of risk assessment and provides a step-by-step guide to developing a risk assessment strategy for homeworkers in any industry or company type. Most importantly, you will learn how to create a complete homeworker health and safety policy, helping ensure homeworkers are safe, healthy and that you remain compliant with UK law.
You will learn
- The basic requirements to ensure the health and safety of homeworkers
- The legal prerequisites for ensuring homeworker health and safety
- When and how to perform a risk assessment
- A step-by-step guide to creating a health and safety policy for homeworkers
Course content
3 modules · 1.75 hours of learning, covering the introduction and checklist, risk assessment, and preparing a homeworker health and safety policy, each with a quiz.
This course sits within our Compliance courses, alongside our broader Health & Safety courses.
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