CCTV in the work place
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Not necessarily, we have CCTV that monitors H&S ie working outside and someone has an accident the CCTV monitor can quickly report the incident - and there is a live recording to assist with any subsequent investigation.
Don
Actually you can providing there is a specific reason e.g. you have reasonable suspicion drug use is taking place etc
Google CCTV policy for 'university', 'government' etc and you will find many examples and completed policies to steal from, i mean use for research.
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/estates/documents/security/cctv-policy.pdf
You will also need signage up identifying CCTV is operation with the name/office of your Data Protection Officer/Advisor and a contact number.
You may also need a DPIA:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...n-impact-assessments-for-surveillance-cameras
https://www.barnsleyhospital.nhs.uk/uploads/2017/02/PIA_CCTV.pdf
Associate
GDPR requires the organisation to provide privacy information, which would be done separately in a CCTV policy.
Associate
Does your employer have a privacy policy in place that is accessible to employees?
Interesting, couldn't do that where I worked, even though there was specific evidence of drug use - needles, smack cooking spoons and tin foil found in bins on floor etc.
(Though thinking about it, those loo's were accessible to the public, maybe that's why).
That isn't true.
I work on a very H&S conscious site - the kind of site where the "wrong kind of accident" could close the site down, and that would be a major financial issue considering what and who we supply.
If there are accidents and/or "Near Misses" we are in a position to be able to watch back footage to see exactly what happened, to see if it is the employee or the process at fault etc. If someone is calming that a large pallet fell on them due to where the fork life vehicles run and the "safe area" and on subsequent investigation we find the gentleman was "Spider-Man'ing up the crates" then we need to be in a position to find out what went wrong and offer re-training where required.
Permabanned
I wonder how many people concerned with CCTV in the workplace are happy to have it outside their own homes or in their own vehicles? When customers "accidentally" leave a camera running in their cars in for work (only had two or three of them) I have a print out of an old BBC test card I put in front of it, and a recording a a dog constantly barking playing on a continuous loop tape player inside the vehicle. One garage owner serviced such a car stark naked 
I don't have a problem with CCTV in the workplace so long as its presence is clearly pointed out.
I don't have a problem with CCTV in the workplace so long as its presence is clearly pointed out.I looked at this we have simple signs up saying that CCTV is in operation, buts thats all they say. While digging I have requested the policy several times from managment, it has until this week fallen on deaf ears. Bear in mind I started to ask the 'policy' question over a year ago when the CCTV was put in place (It has only just been turned on). I'm now in talks with someone who seems to be more interested in keeping the company in line with the law. There is nothing in that link, that I have found, that relates to a written policy as such.
Thanks. I'll have a read and see what I can find.
I work for a very large, world wide company who are very focused on doing things the right way, sadly there are some who act without thinking things through or who are just ignorant of the law.
I like this attaitude towards employees, this is excatally how I would like to think the company I work for would deal with an incident. But as I said in my last post there are some who are unto a law of their own, which could lead to prosecution. Which ever way that would go would likely be upsetting so best avoided in my opinion.
Apparently the stores have been told its going on but not when, staff find out later if they were being filmed for training purposes.