WIth the web and social media awash with COVID-19 news, its often hard to narrow in on exactly what you are looking for.
With that in mind, here at Eley Consultancy Ltd we thought we would put together the following 7 simple steps to keep your workplace a safe environment:
- Complete a COVID-19 risk assessment & share it with all your staff.
- Clean more often. Increase how often you clean surfaces, especially those that are being touched a lot. Ask your staff and your customers to use the hand sanitiser provided and wash their hands frequently.
- Ask your customers to wear face coverings in any indoor space or where required to do so by law. That is especially important if your customers are likely to be around people they do not normally meet (Some exemptions apply).
- Make sure everyone is social distancing. Make it easy for everyone to do so by putting up signs or introducing a one-way system that your customers or visitors can follow.
- Increase ventilation, by keeping doors and windows open where possible and running ventilation systems at all times.
- Take part in NHS Test and Trace by keeping a record of all your customers for 21 days. From 18 September 2020, this will be enforced in law (Some exemptions apply).
- Turn people with coronavirus symptoms away. If a staff member (or someone in their household) or a customer/visitor has a persistent cough, a high temperature or has lost their sense of taste or smell, they should be isolating.
Simple right? Why over complicate how you tackle COVID-19 in the workplace when you do not need to. If you do the basics right, the rest will take care of itself.