With the Governments annoucement last night, giving certain businesses the green light to reopen under strict COVID-19 guidelines, it’s even more important that we all adjust to the ‘New Normal’ as quickly as possible.
Conducting a COVID-19 Risk Assessment for your business will help you make sure you are meeting the guidance as laid out by the Government.
If you haven’t managed to find the Government’s COVID-19 industry-specific guidance for operating in the new circumstances, here is the link;
Construction and Other Outdoor Work
Factories, Plant and Warehouses
Labs and Research Facilities
Offices and Contact Centres
Other People's Houses
Restuarants Offering Takeaways and Deliveries
Shopping and Branches
Vehicles
How can you conduct your COVID-19 Risk Assessment?
We are just starting ours and thought it might be useful to share what we have prepared, in case it’s of any help for smaller businesses.
Please bear in mind that we are not health and safety experts so you must do your own research but we thought it might be useful as a starting point.
Essentially, your risk assessment should address the following areas:
- What is the risk of COVID-19 and why is it so important to protect against it?
- Who will is at risk within your business including employees, customers, visitors & suppliers?
- What steps can you take within your business to minimise those risks?
- What actions do you need to take to implement those steps and how can you plan for them?
- Are there any additional steps you can take to further protect the most vulnerable group of society?
- How do you communicate, train and review the actions you are taking?
We also have a downloadable ‘New Normal’ guide that you may find useful.
