I thought that responsibilty for a safe working practice lies with the person carrying out the work and if self employed, it rests solely with them.
In other postings there has been loads about how the H & S will lock you up in chains for not complying but , as written in the above postings, it seems now it is the responsibility of the person whose house you are cleaning.
It can't be both the w/c's fault and the house owner?
Seriously though, the law about sueing for damages and all that, if you fell off your ladder you'd have to somehow prove the home owner had been negligent. Negligence always has to be proved first and if something is a one off, even if employed and in the workplace, it can be very difficult to prove.
If the customer had dug a hole and put a bit of sheeting over it and then asked you to do their windows....... maybe but not for falling off a ladder.
And what is meant by 'falling'? If you over stretched and fell how would the customer have been negligent? Or if the ladder slid from underneath you how can the customer be liable? Who put the ladder where it was and who deemed it safe to go up? The customer?
Also, the customer is not inviting you onto their property. They are paying for a service and it's access that is granted in order to carry out that job of work.
Hi Gaza
Just by cleaning someone's windows doesn't mean they are employing you. An exchange of money for goods or services is not covered by any employment laws.
Cheers
