Self employment health and safety - and the law

[dippyeggsandtoast]

Does anyone know if someone who is self employed but hires a workplace, such as a hairdresser, is covered by any sort of health and safety legislation? Or are they totally reliant on themselves. I have tried to find a cut and dried answer to this but none seems to exist!

Thank you.

I would think a hairdresser would have it cut and dried. Are you asking about renting a premises? Or are you asking about liability insurance or perhaps risk assessment?

Haha! I didn’t notice the pun there! It’s if I want to pay for space to work. So the place would be where I would work from, I’d effectively be renting workspace. Would I be liable for electrics etc or would the lease holder? Cheers!

If you are renting the space to work then it would be down to the Landlord to ensure all utilities were safe. However your electrical equipment eg straightners, blow driers are your responsibility and you will need to have them PAT tested. So basically what the landlord provides needs to be safe and what you provide needs to be safe. Both of you need to have public liability insurance. I am sure someone else will give better insight, I am answering this from a bit of knowledge I have from friends running there own companies.

Thank you

If you are hiring an entire commercial premise it maybe on a repairing lease and you maybe responsible for maintaining the utilities. Though they should be in working order initially.