Health & Safety in Work - Equipment Risk Assessments for Home Workers

12 Jun 2020

At OHSS, we are experts in workplace health and safety and we’ve been helping people stay protected at work since 2001. We regularly create blogs like these that centre around health and occupational safety so that employers and employees know what they need to know when it matters. Here we look at a very hot topic right now - working from home - something many people are having to adjust to during lockdown.

Specifically within the subject of occupational safety for home workers, we look at the importance of carrying out an equipment risk assessment at home.

Equipment Risk Assessment
At first glance, your home doesn’t immediately seem to present much in the way of safety hazards. It’s your home, right? Well, it may be correct to say that you’re really familiar with your home environment, but that doesn’t mean it’s 100% safe. In truth, more accidents occur in the home that anywhere else

We are masters of our own domain in our home and it’s perhaps for this reason that we choose not to enforce the occupational health measures we would in an official workplace. Complacency is what needs to be overcome by home workers, as we’re much more likely to overlook a smoke detector with a failing battery, a plug that’s in need of repair or a desk chair that’s not configured for optimum posture.

Hazard Identification
Home-based workplace risk assessments are every bit as important as those conducted in a traditional workplace. These home work risk assessments are the joint responsibility of both employees and employer and they’re designed to ensure the equipment that is being used every day by the home worker in question is safe to use.

Just because you’re working in the comfort of your own home doesn’t mean that safety regulations don’t apply, as they really do. And the only one who’ll lose out if an issue does occur due to a lack of focus on the matter, is you.

Talk to the Occupational Health Experts



The modern world is creating new workplace safety issues all of the time and it’s important to keep pace with these challenges to ensure that employees stay protected. If you would like to talk to us about home workplace risk assessments or anything relating to occupational safety, you can find lots of information on our website www.ohss.ie.

However, if you’d like to talk to our friendly experts about your precise occupational hygiene needs, call us now on (01) 6905907 now. They’re ready and waiting to help you in any way they’re able to.

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