Temporary workers

Employers are required by Regulation 15 of the Management Regulations to provide information to temporary staff about the necessary occupational qualifications or skills required to carry out the job safely. Under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, an employer owes the same basic duty to agency workers, self-employed workers (although there is a proposal to exempt some self-employed workers from health and safety law — see Chapter 1), temporary and casual staff and members of the public as it owes to its direct employees to take reasonable care of their health and safety (see Chapter 1).