Regulated the protection of safety and health in the field of family home service

The Official State Gazette publishes today theRoyal Decree 893/2024, of September 10, which regulates the protection of safety and health in the field of family home service.

This regulation aims to regulate the protection of safety and health at work of workers in the field of the special employment relationship of family home service, in accordance with the provisions of the eighteenth additional provision of Law 31/1995, of November 8, on the Prevention of Occupational Risks.

Some of the most notable aspects included in the Royal Decree are:

• The employer must carry out an initial evaluation of the risks to the safety and health of the workers who provide services in the family home service, taking into account, in general, the characteristics of the activity and the employees. If the results of the evaluation reveal risk situations, the employer will adopt the necessary preventive measures to eliminate or reduce and control such risks, documenting them in writing with the specific date of their adoption. A copy of said documentation will be delivered to the worker to inform them of the measures adopted
• The employer must provide family home service workers with appropriate work equipment for the performance of their duties and will adopt the necessary measures so that its use can be carried out safely.
• In order to comply with the duty of protection established in article 2, the employer must ensure that workers have at their disposal all the necessary information in relation to the health and safety risks of the work they perform and the protection and prevention measures applicable to said risks.
• Workers have the right to monitoring their health status, which will be the responsibility of the employer. This surveillance may include carrying out an appropriate medical examination that takes into account all the risks to which the worker may be exposed, as identified in the risk assessment.
• The INSST, within a period of ten months from the publication of this standard, will prepare and make available to all employers, through the website of the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy, a tool that facilitates compliance with the obligations referred to in articles 3, 4 and 5, when employers directly assume the preventive activity or delegate it in the terms provided for in the article. 7.2.

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