Fairplacecare limited

Objective: To reduce risk to the lowest reasonably practicable level
by taking preventative measures, in order of priority.
Employers have a duty to reduce workplace risk to the lowest
reasonably practicable level by taking preventative measures.
Employers must work with any other employers or contractors
sharing the workplace so that everybody's health and safety is
protected. In the context of COVID-19 this means protecting the
health and safety of your workers and customers by working through
these steps in order:
▪ Ensuring both workers and customers who feel unwell stay at
home and do not attend the premise. From 28 September, by law
businesses may not require a self-isolating employee to come into
work.
▪ In every workplace, increasing the frequency of handwashing and
surface cleaning.
▪ Businesses and workplaces should make every reasonable effort
to ensure their employees can work safely. Anyone who can work
from home should do so. Anyone else who cannot work from
home should go to their place of work, if COVID-19 Secure
guidelines are followed closely. When in the workplaces, everyone
should make every reasonable effort to comply with the social
distancing guidelines set out by the government (2m, or 1m with
risk mitigation where 2m is not viable is acceptable). Where the
social distancing guidelines cannot be followed in full, in relation to
a particular activity, businesses should consider whether that
activity can be redesigned to maintain a 2m distance or 1m with
risk mitigations where 2m is not viable.
▪ Further mitigating actions include:
▪ Further increasing the frequency of hand washing and surface
cleaning.
▪ Keeping the activity time involved as short as possible.
▪ Using screens or barriers to separate people from each other.
▪ Using back-to-back or side-to-side working (rather than face-toface) whenever possible.
▪ Reducing the number of people each person has contact with
by using ‘fixed teams or partnering’ (so each person works with
only a few others).
▪ Where the social distancing guidelines cannot be followed in full,
even through redesigning a particular activity, businesses should
consider whether that activity needs to continue for the business to
operate, and if so, take all the mitigating actions possible to reduce
the risk of transmission between their staff.
▪ You should ensure that steps are taken to avoid people needing to
unduly raise their voices to each other. This includes, but is not
limited to, refraining from playing music or broadcasts that may
encourage shouting, including if played at a volume that makes
normal conversation difficult. This is because of the potential for
increased risk of transmission, particularly from aerosol
transmission. We will develop further guidance, based on scientific
evidence, to enable these activities as soon as possible.
▪ Clinically extremely vulnerable individuals are strongly advised to
work from home during the period of national restrictions. If they
cannot work from home, they should not attend work for this
period