LRD guides and handbook October 2024

Health and Safety Law 2024

The ACOP recommends that rest facilities should include sufficient seats and tables. Work seats in offices or other clean environments may be acceptable, provided workers are not subjected to excessive disturbance during rest periods. Eating facilities should include the means of preparing or obtaining a hot drink and, where hot food cannot be readily obtained, the means for workers to heat their own food. The regulations add that “an adequate number of tables and adequate seating with backs” should be provided, and that this seating must be adequate for any disabled persons at work.