Health and safety 'applies to homeworkers'
Commercial insurance
16th June 2009
Employers should ensure that any of their staff working from home receive adequate health and safety training to enable them to do so, an expert has suggested.
Nigel Hawthorn, vice president of EMEA marketing for Blue Coat Systems, explained that "health and safety applies at home as well as at the workplace", which may interest firms with liability insurance.
He claimed that the view that homeworking could result in a loss of productivity is "very backwards facing" and said that he and many of his staff work from their houses.
Mr Hawthorn argued that homeworkers tend to achieve more than those working from offices because they often "start earlier, finish later and are available for more of the working day".
The recent strikes by London Underground workers caused widespread disruption to businesses and CBI deputy director-general John Cridland declared that the industrial action hurt the city's reputation at a "difficult time".
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