Overview

It is part of Health and Safety law that a home worker risk assessment is undertaken for employees who spend part or all of their time working from home.

This risk assessment should be repeated when an individual moves home, or if there is a major change to their environment.

This risk assessment program provides a quick and easy electronic method for employees to assess and resolve health and safety concerns associated with working from home.

The format is an interactive questionnaire. Employees run through the risk assessment checklist and where an employee's response indicates a problem, the system registers a concern. When used with the Audit+ Records Management System, the risk assessment details are automatically saved to a database for analysis and resolution by the relevant managers.

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Key benefits

• Roll-out home worker risk assessments to all personnel in a single installation
• Ensure all personnel connected via internet or intranet who work from home can complete risk assessment in line with company policy
• Reduce stationery costs by conducting home worker risk assessments electronically
• Effectively conduct home worker risk assessments by allowing employees to complete the risk assessment at a convenient time, at their own workstation
• Customise aspects of the program to reflect your organisation's brand and policies
• Automatically save risk assessment results to a database for analysis, concerns resolution and to establish an audit trail of your organisation's compliance with the law when used with the Audit+ Management System
• Print-out completion certificates that are automatically generated at the end of each risk assessment session if required

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Regulatory requirements

According to the Health & Safety Display Screen Equipment (DSE) regulations 1992, Section 2:

1. Every employer shall perform a suitable and sufficient analysis of those workstations which -
   1. (regardless of who has provided them) are used for the purposes of his undertaking by users; or
   2. have been provided by him and are used for the purposes of his undertaking by operators,
   for the purpose of assessing the health and safety risks to which those persons are exposed in consequence of that use.
2. Any assessment made by an employer in pursuance of paragraph (1) shall be reviewed by him if -
   1. there is reason to suspect that it is no longer valid; or
   2. there has been a significant change in the matters to which it relates;
   and where as a result of any such review changes to an assessment are required, the employer concerned shall make them.
3. The employer shall reduce the risks identified in consequence of an assessment to the lowest extent reasonably practicable.
4. The reference in paragraph (3) to "an assessment" is a reference to an assessment made by the employer concerned in pursuance of paragraph (1) and changed by him where necessary in pursuance of paragraph (2).

This home worker risk assessment program helps your organisation fulfil this legal obligation. Risk assessment records may be maintained for years and are available for interrogation at anytime from any PC on your network when the program is used with the Audit+ Records Management System.

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Server and browser requirements

This home worker risk assessment program runs over a typical company Intranet or hosted website with minimum specification and do not require plug-ins such as Macromedia Flash, Shockwave or Java.

Server:

• Microsoft IIS 5 or later
• Active Server Pages 3.0
• Microsoft® SQL Server 7/2000/2003 or Microsoft® Access (if training records will be saved to a database)

Browser:

• Microsoft® Windows - Internet Explorer 5+, Firefox 1.5+, Netscape 7+
• Mac OSX - Safari 2+, Firefox 1.5+, Netscape 7+

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