The COVID-19 pandemic also forced employers to take many forced steps in corporate management. The proven and effective prevention of the spread of the epidemic has become a serious reduction of human contacts. Workplaces where a large number of employees stayed in a large area, one-space workplaces, offices, were practically emptied in order to maintain safe operations. At the same time, and observing the necessary safety distance, only a few people, and even those in a rotation system, continued to work at their original workplace.
Working at home
The vast majority of employees performed their tasks from home using the available IT tools. As one of the positive benefits of the epidemic, employers have realized that they can gain both economic and company management profits in teleworking. Since further waves of the epidemic are expected, several small and large employers have already decided to make working from home permanent. However, this has clear and consistent rules from an occupational health and safety point of view.
Legal authorization of working from home
According to the Occupational Safety and Health Act, before teleworking is permitted, the employer must make sure within the framework of a risk assessment whether the workplace set up in the employer's home meets the requirements for safe working. The legislation in force gives the possibility that the inspection, which is considered a risk assessment, can also be carried out online, on the condition that the person performing the assessment must have the necessary qualifications for the professional activity.
Home work control solution
Due to the sudden increase in demand, we designed and created our new software, which fully meets the requirements of occupational health and safety legislation. By using the online interface, it is possible to carry out surveys of the home workplace en masse, quickly and economically, avoiding personal contact. With the help of the software, the employer offers its employees a secure access to an online interface suitable for self-monitoring of working from home. An employee who enters this interface responds to the questions to be decided about his home workplace by entering a yes or no answer. He takes photos of his created workplace, which he uploads to the program in a simple way.
The software also obliges the employee to read the e-learning educational material on the rules of working from home. The software verifies the mastery of the course material by completing a series of tests. After that, you will record the answer and check questions with a photo, as well as the 100 % tests completed with one click, and submit them together. The data obtained in this way are analyzed and evaluated by our employees who are authorized to carry out the professional activity, and then give an opinion with the help of the software. At the end of the process, a PDF file is also created with the help of this software, which contains all the data that is relevant from an occupational health and safety point of view to comply with the rules for teleworking. The PDF file will be sent to the employer after the evaluation. In this way, the employer fulfills the occupational health and safety obligations stipulated by the legislation, and the employee can perform his duties from home within a regular framework.
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