Employee working from home

[mevans421]

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?

[kurnal]

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.

[CivvyFSO]

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

[afterburner]

that's a cracking answer Civvy!

[nearlythere]

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?