A home working policy template covering the assessment, equipment, health and safety, insurance and information security that need to be in place before anyone works from home.
This policy template is supplied in fully editable MS Word format and can be easily customised and edited. The document uses pre-defined style formatting throughout, with all text in Calibri font for improved readability.
The following document labelling is included in the footer:
- Policy number and title
- Information-classification
- Version
- Page number / total pages
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Home Working Policy Template
A home working policy template offering regular or occasional home working as a flexible working option, with the working environment, assessment, health and safety and information security arrangements that need to be in place first.
The policy has Approved By and Date Approved fields and carries a Public information classification, so it can be shared with workers, clients and other interested parties.
What the Home Working Policy Covers
- Working environment - a suitable environment and equipment to work effectively, and arrangements to avoid distractions
- Assessment - a risk assessment and home working checklist completed before home working starts
- IT equipment and communications - equipment checked and approved before connecting to company systems, and adequate communication facilities
- Facilities - adequate space, office facilities and equipment to work efficiently and safely
- Remote access - authorisations listed and reviewed, and equipment returned and accounts closed when no longer needed
- Health and safety - safe working procedures followed at home, including display screen equipment assessments, and risk assessments by a competent person as required
- Insurance and permission - adequate insurance, equipment insured, and permission from a landlord or mortgagee where applicable
- Changes - changes to the home working environment reported
- Information security - information assets kept secure, remote access only with adequate controls, and clear desk, passwords and information transfer rules followed at home
Checked Against Cyber Essentials
The IT policies in the range have been checked against the Cyber Essentials requirements, so their rules on passwords, devices, access and updates do not contradict what a Cyber Essentials assessment asks for.
Using the Policy
Add your company name and logo, check each commitment matches what your organisation does and edit any that do not, then approve and date the policy and share it with workers and anyone else who needs to see it.
Who Needs a Home Working Policy?
Organisations with workers who work from home regularly or occasionally, and organisations working to ISO 45001, ISO 14001 or ISO 27001.
Included in the ISO 45001 Toolkit
This policy is part of the ISO 45001 Toolkit and is also included in the ISO 14001 and ISO 27001 toolkits and every alphaZ ISO toolkit that combines them.
Works with the Remote Working Procedure
The PP-1-21 Remote Working Policy Procedure covers the arrangements for working away from the office, and the PP-7-17 Safe Use of Display Screen Equipment Policy Procedure covers display screen equipment.
Document Control
The footer carries the policy number and title, information classification, version and page numbers, and the approval fields record who approved the policy and when, so it can be controlled with the rest of your management system documents and listed on a document register such as the F-IMS20 Document Register.
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