{"id":8414,"date":"2021-08-30T09:07:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T09:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slcontrols.com\/remote-working-health-and-safety-at-sl-controls\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T11:53:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T11:53:13","slug":"remote-working-health-and-safety-at-sl-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slcontrols.k8s-stg1-global.sq1.io\/en\/remote-working-health-and-safety-at-sl-controls\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote Working Health and Safety at SL Controls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Health and safety is a top priority here at SL Controls, so we have always had robust and continuously reviewed health and safety procedures in place. Like many other companies over the past 18 months, we have adjusted the way we operate and deliver our services, resulting in a greater level of remote working. Our health and safety procedures have had to evolve too.<\/p>\n

We have had a remote working policy at SL Controls for many years now. Some of our staff would have worked from home for a certain amount of time each week, plus we regularly had engineers who would spend considerable amounts of time at client sites. That said, the default position was that staff would work in the office.<\/p>\n

When the lockdowns were put in place to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, this changed overnight, with all staff moving to a remote working situation. We dealt with this change effectively as we already had the IT infrastructure in place and previous experience.<\/p>\n

We did refine the way we operated, however, to ensure staff wellbeing, meet company objectives, and provide services to clients. This experience led us to review our approach in relation to where and how SL Controls staff worked.<\/p>\n

The result of that review was to adjust our policy to make it much more open to remote working, as we could clearly see the benefits. There isn\u2019t a one-size-fits-all solution for every member of staff, but offering greater flexibility is the approach we now take.<\/p>\n

That has had an impact on health and safety \u2013 specifically, remote working health and safety.<\/p>\n

Remote Working Health and Safety Checklist<\/h2>\n

During the lockdown, we introduced a remote working checklist to ensure the health and safety of staff working from home. This was based on the health and safety risk assessments we would have done in our office locations, but then adapted for home working environments.<\/p>\n

The checklist ensures employees have a set up at home that is safe, and it helps managers to understand if the company needs to provide any support. The checklist has another important function as well, as it also highlights remote working health and safety issues that might otherwise be missed.<\/p>\n

The remote working health and safety checklist has seven categories of questions that include:<\/p>\n