When we have a problem at home, say our central heating stops working, we phone the correct company to come and fix it. Then, hopefully, the heating is fixed and all is good. However that’s not always the case. Calling someone out to fix something in your home may just be the beginning to a long road of compensation claims.
When we let someone in our home to carry out a job for us, it is us who are paying them to do that job, so therefore we are employing them for the work they are carrying out on our property. This means that under healthy and safety regulations that it is us who are responsible for that persons safety.
So if you are a workman and often carry out work on other people’s houses and you trip over a floor tile or fall off a ladder it is the homeowner who is responsible. This comes after a story in the Daily Mail about a Polish builder who fell off his ladder when repairing a leak in the homeowner’s garage.
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