Do I need protection at work if the office is in a different location or address

– a question that entrepreneurs most often ask referring to the fact that their headquarters are registered at one address, while the business premises themselves are located elsewhere.

It is very common for you to register a headquarters at your home address when opening a business and eventually open branches in other locations.

Obligations related to occupational safety (and fire protection) are tied to only those locations where the work is carried out. In practice, this means that you do not have to do anything at the headquarters address in terms of occupational safety provided that no one works at that address. In this case, you deal exclusively with the office and all other locations that the company uses for its work flows.

Do entrepreneurs need protection at work if the office is in a different location/address? If the headquarters are registered at one address then…

I wrote about the exact obligations in previous posts and you can find out about them here: What I need from the law on occupational safety and fire protection when hiring the first employee