Get your free working from home health and safety digital toolkit

UK companies are to be given free access to mobile inspection app and digital platform iAuditor from SafetyCulture, to help manage the working from home concerns of employers and employees during the Coronavirus crisis.

The offer is aimed at HR teams, who have found it difficult to conduct risk assessments, quickly and at scale, following rapid changes to working arrangements brought about by the government’s ‘Stay at Home’ order.

iAuditor allows staff to complete their own home office inspections in minutes. Employees simply need to download the app through the iPhone App Store or Google Play store.

HR teams should need just 30 minutes to set up a range of inspection checklists and surveys on the management platform – where they can access a public library of more than 100,000 templates.

These include templates sanctioned by CIPD, WHO, CDC and many other leading authorities. There are more than a dozen editable templates specific to Coronavirus, including several home working checklists. Companies can also create their own templates for any range of purposes.

The platform also includes an analytics dashboard that visualises the inspection data from employees, allowing HR managers and directors to identify the common challenges employees might be facing. This ability to identify patterns will help companies to prioritise their response to any inspection findings. 

iAuditor says while home working has been a growing trend in recent years, just 5.3% of workers regularly use their home as their main place of work. These sudden changes have now raised questions around working conditions, hygiene and mental wellbeing – as so many more people try to balance their work and home life. Many staff are also trying to complete work commitments in properties shared with vulnerable people or children who would usually be in school.

It says this has resulted in HR teams being asked to answer a wide range of questions, including, whether people could develop back pain from poor seating arrangements, how staff can fit work around the home schooling needs of their children, and whether people stuck at home might work too much – especially when companies are still required to comply with Working Time Regulations.  

SafetyCulture’s iAuditor has already been made freely available for an extended period to healthcare, emergency, education and volunteer organisations.

Please find details of the iAuditor offer here.