Why don't you carry insurance for these situations?... My question is what is the fairest way of dealing with this? Should I make him pay it all, part or none?
Why don't you carry insurance for these situations?
What does your safety statement/risk assessment/method statement say about the way this task is supposed to be carried out?One of my staff broke a €400 item today, it is destroyed.
Problem one, it came from the UK and will need to be re-ordered, Problem two, alot of money was due to be paid on completion of job, this will delay things. Considering this project was due to end tomorrow I am rather annoyed.
I understand accidents happen but this was avoidable,. The staff member in question is a senior tradesman with well over 20 years of experiance. If he were an apprentice I would not be fuming as much. It was a run of the mill installation.
What does your safety statement/risk assessment/method statement say about the way this task is supposed to be carried out?
Why does this matter? For all we know it may have been a E400 hammer.
I've never heard of a hammer getting destroyed in an accident, but it really doesn't matter what the item in question was. It will help to understand responsibility for the accident if we can see what steps the employer took beforehand to assess the potential risks and mitigate against them.
Well if the employer hasn't complied with his legal obligation to a risk assessment and prepare a safety statement, he may well be on very dodgy ground if he then tries to blame the employee.And if there is no method statement in place? It must be the employers fault? Is this what you're getting at?
No risk assessment will cover every eventuality, but a good risk assessment will cover the things that are likely to happen and likely to cause harm. That's the beauty of risk assessment. 'Harm' doesn't just mean personal injury - if the cost of this item is significant to the business, then the possibility of financial harm should have been considered.Although do you really think this will be in place to cover every eventuallity posible?
I think we need both sets of answers to be able to advise the OP properly.It would be of far more use to know what actually hapened than whether he was complying with his legal obligations.
Another reason is breakages are rare, very rare. When you have a highly skilled, well paid work force this is to be expected.
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