Where does it say that in the Data Protection Act?
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisation...ion-regulation-gdpr-faqs-for-small-retailers/
Where does it say that in the Data Protection Act?
It can only be for security. They can't use it to spy on workers.
Footage can be used and handed to police if someone does something illegal (like stealing). But they can't use it to discipline someone who simply breaks company policy. If someone is browsing porn all day and you set up a camera to look over their shoulder, the company will end up being sued by the worker.
Not in loo.
I'm not the employer, I am an employee with the companies interest in mind. A new CCTV system has been set up. There was already an existing CCTV setup but this is in a different area, on a different circuit and for a different purpose. The new CCTV purpose has been posted to a few staff (about 2% of the people who will be filmed) in an email but I cant see an ambigious email being being an official document. I'm trying to get a policy written up or find an existing one but no one seems to know if this is a legal requirement and I have spent hours looking at the Data Protection Act looking for something to show the employer so they get their act together. All I have been able to find is that people being filmed have a right to know the purpose, but nothing about how that purpose is to be relayed. Within weeks of the CCTV switch on there was an incident that resulted in a threating email being sent out informing a few people, stating that if no one owned up then the CCTV would be used to find out, as you can guess this was not the purpose the CCTV was setup for (According to the email). Now if legal proceding ever came up, which I'm 99.9% sure would never happend, you can guess how it would end up.
I am infavor of the system but I'd like it to be for an additional purpose of watching customers (namely other departments) attitudes towards the staff, which I would think would come under staff safety.
I'm not the employer, I am an employee with the companies interest in mind. A new CCTV system has been set up. There was already an existing CCTV setup but this is in a different area, on a different circuit and for a different purpose. The new CCTV purpose has been posted to a few staff (about 2% of the people who will be filmed) in an email but I cant see an ambigious email being being an official document. I'm trying to get a policy written up or find an existing one but no one seems to know if this is a legal requirement and I have spent hours looking at the Data Protection Act looking for something to show the employer so they get their act together. All I have been able to find is that people being filmed have a right to know the purpose, but nothing about how that purpose is to be relayed. Within weeks of the CCTV switch on there was an incident that resulted in a threating email being sent out informing a few people, stating that if no one owned up then the CCTV would be used to find out, as you can guess this was not the purpose the CCTV was setup for (According to the email). Now if legal proceding ever came up, which I'm 99.9% sure would never happend, you can guess how it would end up.
I am infavor of the system but I'd like it to be for an additional purpose of watching customers (namely other departments) attitudes towards the staff, which I would think would come under staff safety.
Actually you can providing there is a specific reason e.g. you have reasonable suspicion drug use is taking place etc
It can only be for security. They can't use it to spy on workers.
Footage can be used and handed to police if someone does something illegal (like stealing). But they can't use it to discipline someone who simply breaks company policy. If someone is browsing porn all day and you set up a camera to look over their shoulder, the company will end up being sued by the worker.
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
then we need to be in a position to find out what went wrong and offer re-training where required.
I hope they are going to tell the staff that cameras are recording.