With plans to be announced soon for how the nation will be returning back to work following the Covid19 lockdown, now is a crucial time for your business to begin planning ahead for how you will be able to operate safely and protect both your staff and clients.
Preparing the workplace
Start this planning by conducting an audit of your offices and working environment, to identify areas where you will need to make changes and also consider what you will require to protect the health and safety of your staff.
If you will need to change the way you and your teams work, how do you plan to meet these new needs?
Some of these changes could include setting up sanitising stations when you enter the building and at set distances throughout your site.
You may also want to consider implementing regular disinfecting of key touch points across your site, requiring staff to wipe down any equipment once they have finished using it.
It is also important to consider how will inform staff, clients and visitors about these new changes, with signage playing a vital role. This could be signage at the entrance to your site, advising those entering on the steps you would like them to take when entering or signage on the flooring of your reception areas, warehouse and other spaces to maintain social distancing.
Due to high demand for this equipment effective planning is needed to ensure you are able to source adequate supplies of high quality items in the quantities that you require them.
Without this planning, a delay in sourcing and delivery could potentially lead to a delay to when and how you can reopen and staff can return to the workplace.
Our team is on hand to support you to operate safely and we have a robust supply chain in place, helping to ensure you always have availability and access to this vital PPE equipment.
Preparing your staff
It is also important that you are preparing your staff and this includes providing them with everything they will need to protect themselves.
Providing them with their own personal kit of essential supplies is a great way to protect them, whilst helping them feel safer and more positive about returning to the workplace.
If this is something you would be interested in, planning is vital to ensure your staff have this ready to go as soon as they can start returning to the workplace. You can achieve this through sending these kits out directly to them at home so they are fully prepared.
On a different note, you may be able to reopen but still have a need for a number of staff to work from home, to ensure you are able to effectively implement social distancing in the workplace.
In this case, sending support packs to your staff at their home is a great way to ensure they have everything they need.
You can also include a variety of printed literature to keep them informed and up to date on key messages, or even the new plan of actions they will be required to follow when returning to the workplace, so again they are fully prepared.
We hope this piece has helped to highlight some key things your business needs to begin thinking about, ready for your return to work.
If you would like to discuss any of your requirements for PPE, signage, support packs and kits for employees or any other needs, our team would be happy to help.