Workers in other people’s homes
- No work should be carried out in a household where a person is isolating or has been asked to shield
- Avoid face-to-face contact with vulnerable people in households
- Contact households ahead of the visit to discuss how to minimise risk
- Wash hands on arrival and maintain social distancing
- Travel to the site using your own transport where possible, or limit the number of people per vehicle if this cannot be avoided
- Match workers to households local to them to minimise transportation
- Workers should bring their own food and take breaks outside
- Limit time spent in close proximity to no more than 15 minutes
- Identify busy areas across the household where people travel to, from or through, for example, stairs and corridors
- Ask that households leave all internal doors open
- Allocate the same worker to the same household each time there is a visit
- Limit the number of workers in a confined space
- Avoid direct contact where possible
- Use electronic payment methods