Workplace safety is a crucial thing to consider during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the past year, it has affected the world’s work and created new challenges. This pandemic calls for a new way of living and working. Due to lockdown, all the workplace have resulted in significant loss and also increase high levels of inactivity and unemployment.
Can COVID – 19 transmit at the workplace?
COVID-19 transmits through respiratory droplets or contact with contaminated surfaces. It can transfer at the workplace, traveling during work-related travel to an area, or travel to the local Community.
Helping an employee while they return from work, maintain safety, and confidently during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is not an easy task. But there are some new guidelines and revised practices that should be followed to allow for a safe, stable return to the work.
Here’s how to maintain workplace safety during the Covid-19 pandemic:
Social distancing at work:
Everyone should stay 2 meters (6 feet) apart at the workplace to maintain safety during Covid-19 wherever possible. However, if it’s not possible, people should be at least 1 meter apart. But they should wear face coverings, work side by side instead of face to face, or use screens or barriers to separate people.
Risk Assessment:
During COVID-19, the business should start by updating the risk assessment as well as managing the risk of coronavirus at the workplace to maintain safety. The risk assessment will help to understand what you should do to make work safe, protect people at the work as well as take a reasonable step to prevent harm in the work.
Staying safe at Work
The government has also announced that anyone can open their workplace by applying safety measures amid the Covid-19 pandemic. People should avoid public transport. If it is essential then wear a face covering and wash their hands regularly. Making the workplace is fully cleaned, disinfected, and equipped.
If in case anyone in your household has symptoms of covid-19. You should not go to work.
Clean and sanitize your work Place:
At the prominent workplace, put sanitizing hand rub dispenser and making sure the workplace is cleaned, disinfected, and well-equipped. By keeping the workplace clean and frequently washing hands or sanitizing the hand reduced the spread of coronavirus.
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