Employers have the same responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of homeworkers as they do for employees based at an office, factory and warehouse or at another employers' workplace.

Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 employers are required to do a risk assessment of the work activities carried out by homeworkers. Completing a risk assessment involves identifying the hazards relating to the homeworkers' work activities and deciding whether enough steps have been taken to prevent harm to them or to anyone else who may be affected by their work.