No work activites on work premises

Gregory, your company would not be liable as long as the member of staff has their own liability insurance in place, which they should if they are practising. I would get a copy of this for your files.

Also they should do their own risk assessment of the work area they will be using which again you should get a copy of.

If they are planning on doing this at desks eg a head, neck and shoulder are the staff happy with this or is there a private room they would like to use. Then you get onto do they need to pay rent on the room.

Really there should not be a problem and no worry for your company being liable, just get copies of paperwork.

This would benefit me also because I have been prepared to use my knowledge gained outside of work to support people with injuries sustained in work. I have qualified with a Level 3 Diploma in Sports Massage Therapy, emergency first aid (and I will complete a first aid at work course in the next two weeks) and I am employed as an production engineer with a company that historically has many manual handling injuries.

My hobby is working with a local rugby team and along with the first aid role during matches I manage injuries during the week to keep the players as fit as possible. I would like to bring my skills to the employer to help staff return to work quicker than just sitting at home with pain killers for a month.

The company has all my training certificates on my personnel file and this is as far as it has got. This is frustrating for me because I believe I can help and I have my own liability insurances and equipment. I can even PAT test my equipment myself so there are no issues of safety.

Again following the thread what happens if I were to be blamed for making a situation worse and the company is seen to be promoting this level of service? But then what if they sent the staff to an external physiotherapist or massage therapist?

Bearing in mind I have attended courses by trainers who are employed by major retailers (Sainsbury's, Tesco, etc.) to get their staff back to work ASAP through the same medium of massage and muscular rehabilitation.

It is a very grey area and confusing to say the least. The company wants the staff to return to work and then fear the repercussions of aiding staff through known methods just in case there is a problem. The costs can be kept to a minimum and I am on site for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Member of staff wants to offer massage to staff, to be done on our premises in their time (lunch breaks).

If something goes wrong, someone gets injured for instance, could we be potentially (vicariously) liable if we allow it?