Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 4:

In page 19, lines 47 to 49, to delete subsection (2) and substitute the following new subsection:

"(2) Where an employee of another undertaking is engaged in work activities in an employer's undertaking, that employer shall take measures to ensure that the employee's employer receives adequate information concerning the matters referred to in subsection (1).".

The rationale behind this amendment is to address the point that an employer's obligation to ensure, where he or she takes on the employees of another business, that each employee receives all the information set out in section 9(1) is unworkable. It is often the case that employers using employees from another company, for example, for maintenance work or other such services, might not know which or how many people are coming to work at any given time. It would be far more straightforward to oblige employers to ensure that the actual employer of those workers were made aware of all the safety information. There would then be an obligation on that actual employer to pass on the information to his or her employees in the usual way, as if the workers were working for their own and not another employer.