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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Fire Safety => Topic started by: mevans421 on June 22, 2009, 10:27:22 PM

Title: Employee working from home
Post by: mevans421 on June 22, 2009, 10:27:22 PM

Hi

Can anyone tell me what responsibility my employer has with regards the RRO for my fire safety when I work from home as is contracted? ???

Title: Re: Employee working from home
Post by: kurnal on June 22, 2009, 10:40:41 PM

Presumably your home will comprise domestic premises? If you work alone in your own home then your home will not be subject to the fire safety order. If however other people who do not form part of your household work with you, or you have business meetings, clients or customers regularly visiting your home for your employers business reasons then it would be a different matter.

Title: Re: Employee working from home
Post by: CivvyFSO on June 23, 2009, 10:48:26 AM

And if you are willing to sleep there, then surely working there is less of an issue?

Title: Re: Employee working from home
Post by: afterburner on June 25, 2009, 09:24:59 AM

that's a cracking answer Civvy! :)

Title: Re: Employee working from home
Post by: nearlythere on June 25, 2009, 10:29:00 AM

Is it not strange that the legislators have made provision for a 70 year old woman to be able to launch herself out of a fire floor window of her house in the event of a fire but her son/daughter, who works in a ground floor office, must have a door to walk through?