BUSINESS REPORT
GET BACK TO WORK SAFELY – A FIVE STEP APPROACH
As businesses throughout the country grapple with changing guidelines around working in the office, Mark Bramley (pictured), CEO of Croft Communications shares five key steps to working safely.
Investing the thought, time and capital needed to protect your staff and customers will be vital to the future of our workplaces. Here are five steps all business owners should take to create a Covid-secure workplace:
1. DETECT AND PROTECT A quick temperature check as people enter your premises can help keep everyone safe and provide peace of mind. Croft’s Thermal Imaging Solution is a quick, reliable and contact-free way to detect elevated body temperatures when people enter or exit your premises. Scanning multiple people instantly eliminates the need for close contact or queues.
2. RISK-ASSESS Carry out a Covid-19 risk assessment. This means identifying the main areas where the risk of transmission is highest in your premises and taking steps to remove or reduce the risk. For example, if you serve customers at a counter, think about introducing self-service stations or installing Perspex screens.
3. KNOW THE DRILL In areas where schools and businesses have been forced
to close, it’s thought that the local spike in coronavirus cases was fuelled in part by poor working practices, including letting those with the virus continue to work. That’s unacceptable: make sure you’re familiar with your responsibility as an employer and ensure that anyone who needs to is supported to self-isolate.
4. ENABLE SOCIAL DISTANCING Where possible everyone should keep two metres apart, so set clear guidelines and install signage and floor markings to make sure everyone knows (literally) where they stand. Sometimes the two-metre rule isn’t practicable – and in that case, other measures should be put in place to keep people safe, such as staggered shift times.
5. MAINTAIN GOOD HYGIENE You’ll need to keep your premises ultra-hygienic with frequent cleaning, paying particular attention to areas that get a lot of footfall, or which are touched by lots of people. One of the best defences we have against the virus is regular handwashing, so introduce a strict regime for all staff and provide hand gel to everyone entering the building.
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14 inbusiness DECEMBER 2020/JANUARY 2021
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