Agency workers' health and safety

Introduction

If you supply or use agency workers you need to be aware of your responsibilities for their health and safety.

Agency workers can face particular problems because, for example, they may not be familiar with the business they are working in or its particular hazards. The risks can be reduced through effective partnership and co-operation between the employment business and the user business, and by following good practice in areas such as risk assessment and communicating health and safety information.

Throughout this guide, we use 'agency workers' to mean people who obtain work through an employment business (referred to in this guidance as the 'agency').

Employment and user businesses subject to Gangmasters Licensing Authority requirements must also comply with relevant licence conditions that may be set by the Authority.

Subjects covered in this guide

• Introduction
• Understand your duties in relation to agency workers' health and safety
• Health and safety risk assessment for agency workers
• Co-operate to protect agency workers' health and safety
• Agency workers and health and safety information and training
• Ensure agency workers use health and safety equipment and follow procedures
• Monitor agency workers' health and safety
• Control agency workers' working hours

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