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Hello and welcome to the May/June issue of Tomorrow’s Health and Safety.
At the time of writing we’re entering the ninth week of the UK lockdown. The measures put in place by the Government at the end of March, on the advice of the scientific and medical community, have done their bit to slow the tide of ICU admissions and lower the R (basic reproduction) number to below one. This means, over the coming weeks, the rhetoric in the political, economical and business spheres will move onto the return to work, albeit in a different and somewhat socially-distanced form.
Research this month by global legal business, DWF found that half of the 2,000 people surveyed in the UK are ready to get back to their jobs, assuming their employers have the right safety measures in place. It is then, the job of many in this industry to ensure workplaces are fit for purpose and communicating to employers and employees alike that the correct measures have been installed.
It will come as no surprise that the predominant focus in this issue is the pandemic and the health and safety industry’s role in a post- lockdown UK. From advice provided by Ellis Whittham on conducting a risk assessment before having employees return to their workplaces, to SiteZone Safety encouraging the widespread adoption of the latest health and safety technology, we’ve covered all the essentials here.
Enjoy the read.
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UNLOCKING LOCKDOWN It will be important for there to be ‘champions’ at all levels of a
business (from the boardroom to the shop floor), who lead by example in following policy and procedure in a post-lockdown workspace, says Squire Patton Boggs.
ISOLATION ON THE ROAD With around 64% of lone workers facing certain levels of physiological
distress, Simon Turner, Campaign Manager at Driving for Better Business, analyses the effects of loneliness on this often-overlooked section of the workforce.
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THE PPE PROBLEM NHS Trusts are having to make an impossible decision about what is
safer: asking their frontline staff to reuse PPE or sending them into a clinical environment without protection. Inivos explores the ways to tackle this issue.
LEGIONELLA AFTER LOCKDOWN The combination of a Legionnaires’ outbreak and coronavirus in the
workplace would be catastrophic. Churchill Environmental explains why it is the job of the health and safety manager to ensure it doesn’t happen.
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