As organisations return to the workplace, adjustments to working practices will need to be taken. Some can be temporary, others for the longer term as workplace strategies are revised post COVID-19.
learn moreTo create the perfect post-Covid office, you’re better off sticking to the basics: social distancing, cleaning and ventilation.
learn more1. Complete a Covid-19 risk assessment. Share it with all your staff.
Find out how to do a risk assessment.
The decision to return to the workplace must be made in meaningful consultation with workers (including through trade unions or employee representative groups where they exist). Wherever possible, clinically extremely vulnerable workers should work from home. If clinically extremely vulnerable individuals cannot work from home, they should be offered the option of the safest available on-site roles, enabling them to maintain social distancing guidelines (2m, or 1m with risk mitigation where 2m is not viable). It may be appropriate for clinically extremely vulnerable individuals to take up an alternative role or adjusted working patterns temporarily.
Another group of office workers to consider is those who need to self-isolate because they have symptoms of Covid-19, live in a household with someone who has symptoms or are in a support bubble with someone who has symptoms as well as those who are advised to self-isolate as part of the Government’s Test and Trace service.
Here employers will need to enable staff to work from home while
self-isolating if appropriate.
As mentioned earlier, by law, from 28 September 2020, employers
must not knowingly require or encourage someone who is being required to
self-isolate to come to work.
For those working from home, it will
be important for employers to monitor their wellbeing and help them stay
connected to the rest of the workforce, as well as provide equipment for them
to work at home safely and effectively.
How workplaces will operate and what this means in terms of shifts, working layouts and staff protection measures will continue to evolve. We have a range of services to support you through these challenging times.Whether it’s changing the workspace, protecting employees on their return to the workplace or facilitating longer term home working, we have the knowledge and expertise to help.
If you can make sure there's adequate ventilation,
regular cleaning and that people stay two metres away from each other at all
times, you’ll have a good chance at keeping the virus at bay.
Here are some points to consider when you are thinking about
re-configuring your workplace.
Our space planners can help you to plan for the gradual return to your place of work by looking at the capacity of spaces, safe circulation and how welfare facilities can be used. We can assist you in putting together a workplace risk assessment for your premises or discuss your plans and give guidance.
Our on site team can make all the necessary changes to your workplace, including desk and furniture installation and/or moves, partition alterations, floor tile replacement with marked tiles, floorbox moves, lighting alterations, data services
Please get in touch to find out more
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