28/04/2026
Today is World Day for Safety and Health at Work.
But after 2020, the meaning of "at work" has shifted considerably. For many employees, there's no longer one fixed workstation, there's the office desk, the kitchen table, the spare bedroom, and sometimes a co-working space in between.
Which raises a bigger question for employers:
Does your duty of care stop at the office door?
The answer is it doesn’t.
And that is where things can get complicated.
What used to sit comfortably on a spreadsheet now needs continuous updating to keep pace with attendance that shifts by the hour, and static processes simply weren't designed for that kind of fluidity. It's not just evacuation planning that's affected either, DSE assessments, fire marshal rotas, compliance documentation, and audit records all need to catch up with how people work today.
And that shift changes even the most basic parts of the H&S role. Take your evacuation list, it was probably accurate when someone exported it this morning, but by 9am it's already out of date because someone dropped in unannounced, a contractor arrived, and three people who booked a desk cancelled at the last minute. The list your fire marshal is working from no longer reflects who's actually in the building.
That's why we've put together a practical guide to help. It's dropping in May, and if you'd like early access, you can leave your email at the link in the first comment.
