So ladies, I need a bit of occupational health & safety law advice please before I start shouting my mouth off without the laws in place to back me up.
I am moving office at the end of this week, I work for the Olympics so am currently based in a fairly plush office in canary wharf, during the games I will be based in a little portacabin at my allocated venues but from Friday till games time my dept is moving to what is effectively a warehouse converted into an office for around 150 of us (there are legitimate operational reasons for this!).
Found out a bit more about it today and it will be very basic furniture, temporary heating/air con and portaloos but the main part I’m concerned about is that we are not being provided with any monitors or keyboards, we are expected to work just off our laptops every day. Now I am only 5”4 but having already been doing this for 2 weeks (we’ve run out of desk space in our current office), I am already getting a bad back (and I have a history of it), surely there must be some legal obligation to provide either a screen (so we use the laptop as keyboard), or a keyboard (so we can raise the laptop to use as screen). Trying not to be too arsey about it, this is the kind of setup I expect for our temporary situation at our games time venues but not as a full time desk for over 6 months... My manager said he’s not happy either but will just go out and buy himself a cheapy £10 keyboard, yes I could do this as well but I don’t see why it should be my responsibility IYSWIM...
So, can anyone help me with any UK or EU laws relating to what an employer must provide?
