Nursery World - Childcare Counsel: Covid-19 risk assessments

Hannah Belton, director and head of employment law at Morgan LaRoche, on risk assessments around Covid-19

Covid-19 health and safety duties

Employers have duties under the HSE ‘Covid-secure’ guidelines, while thecurrent requirement to undertake a Covid-19-specific risk assessment is covered by the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.

Carrying out a risk assessment

HSE suggests that the minimum an employer must do in an assessment is:

The assessment must be in writing, where there are five or more employees; and with a staff of more than 50, at least a summary should be published on the employer’s website.

Assessment information

Employers must then provide employees with ‘comprehensible and relevant information’, primarily on:

For further advice, please contact hbelton@morganlaroche.com

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