Important Notice regarding COVID-19
COVID Safe Plan
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Hygiene | |
Provide and promote hand sanitiser stations for use on entering building and other locations in the worksite and ensure adequate supplies of hand soap and paper towels are available for staff. |
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Where possible: enhance airflow by opening windows and adjusting air conditioning. |
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In areas or workplaces where it is required, ensure all staff wear a face covering and/or required PPE, unless a lawful exception applies. Ensure adequate face coverings and PPE are available to staff that do not have their own. |
Below protected coverings are provided by the company to all staff members and for any visitors,
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Provide training to staff on the correct use and disposal of face coverings and PPE, and on good hygiene practices and slowing the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). | The company provides regular meetings with staff to educate them on hand and cough hygiene, including how to wash and sanitise their hands correctly. In addition to this the company intranet website is on use as a communication method to inform any updates to staff regarding good hygiene practises. We have provided below details to the staff members All staff now need to observe the proper practices for avoiding contact with viruses. These are:
Display of appropriate information on the use of face coverings and PPE –on the premises information brochures and notices are on display |
Replace high-touch communal items with alternatives. |
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Guidance | Action to mitigate the introduction and spread of COVID-19 |
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Cleaning | |
Increase environmental cleaning (including between changes of staff), ensure high touch surfaces are cleaned and disinfected regularly (at least twice daily). |
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Ensure adequate supplies of cleaning products, including detergent and disinfectant. | From the cleaning company
Internal
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Guidance | Action to mitigate the introduction and spread of COVID-19 |
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Physical distancing and limiting workplace attendance | |
Ensure that all staff that can work from home, do work from home. |
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Establish a system that ensures staff members are not working across multiple settings/work sites. |
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Establish a system to screen employees and visitors before accessing the workplace. Employers cannot require employees to work when unwell. |
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Configure communal work areas so that there is no more than one worker per four square meters of enclosed workspace, and employees are spaced at least 1.5m apart. Also consider installing screens or barriers. |
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Use floor markings to provide minimum physical distancing guides between workstations or areas that are likely to create a congregation of staff. |
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Modify the alignment of workstations so that employees do not face one another. |
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Minimise the build up of employees waiting to enter and exit the workplace. |
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Provide training to staff on physical distancing expectations while working and socialising (e.g. during lunch breaks). |
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Review delivery protocols to limit contact between delivery drivers and staff. |
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Review and update work rosters and timetables where possible to ensure temporal as well as physical distancing. |
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Where relevant, ensure clear and visible signage in areas that are open to the general public that specifies maximum occupancy of that space, as determined by the ‘four square metre’ rule. |
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Guidance | Action to ensure effective record keeping |
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Record keeping | |
Establish a process to record the attendance of customers, clients, visitors and workplace inspectors, delivery drivers. This information will assist employers to identify close contacts. |
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Provide guidance to staff on the effective use of the workplace OHS reporting system (where available). |
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