General guidance for all workplaces
- Provide equipment for staff to work effectively and safely from home where possible
- Face employees away from each other or side-to-side where possible, so they are not face-to-face
- Stagger shifts and break times
- Provide staff with packaged meals instead of using canteens
- Provide handwashing facilities or hand sanitisers at entrances and exits
- Change seating, tables and layouts so staff work further apart and reduce face-to-face interaction
- Reduce maximum occupancy for lifts and regulate use of corridors, lifts and staircases
- Provide hand sanitiser for the operation of lifts and encourage the use of stairs
- Monitor the wellbeing of colleagues working from home and offer support
- Get staff to change into uniforms on site, provide storage for clothes and bags, and wash uniforms on site rather than at home
- Have separate entry and exit points to the building, and introduce one-way flow routes
- Reduce congestion by having more entry points
- Use floor tape or paint to mark out two-metre distances
- Discourage non-essential trips within buildings and sites
- Reduce job and location rotation – this could involve assigning employees to specific floors
- Provide more parking or bike racks
- Provide protective screening for staff in receptions or similar areas
- Use screens to create physical barriers between people where possible
- Provide alternatives to touch-based security devices such as keypads