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making your workplace covid-secure

Making your workplace Covid-secure

The Health and Safety Executive have announced that they will be carrying out spot checks and inspection on all types of businesses in all geographical areas to ensure that they are Covid-secure.

The HSE will carry out these checks by making, either site visits or telephone calls to businesses to discuss their arrangements and the measures put in place to keep there employees, customers and visitors safe.

There are some simple steps you can take in making your workplace Covid-secure –

  • Carry out a Covid-19 Risk Assessment
  • Maintain and promote social distancing on your premises
  • Provide adequate hand washing /sanitizing facilities
  • Talk to your team about working safely

A draft risk assessment form can be found on the HSE website, however, here at PSP Risk we are able to work with you to put together a bespoke Risk Assessment that meets the HSE requirements and your own business needs.

 

 

Sewing for frontline medical staff

Helping Local Frontline Medical Staff

Tracey Porter, Account Handler at PSP Chippenham has been using her spare time during lockdown to help out local NHS staff by putting her sewing skills to good use.

Shoe bags for Hawthorn Medical Centre in Swindon, so that staff can protect their shoes from contaminating their homes when they return from shift.

Washbags for a community based project – NHS Staff Uniform Washing Bags Swindon, the project which has so far distributed nearly 2000 bags to hospital staff, district nurses and care homes in Swindon, so that they can safely bring their uniforms home to be washed.

Face Mask Extenders – These have been provided to her daughter and colleagues who work in a pharmaceutical company and need to wear face masks for such long hours and the elastic puts pressure on their ears, the extenders fit around the back of the head relieving the pressure.

Hearts – provided to the Brighter Futures Great Western Hospital Swindon, for ICU patients with Covid-19, one heart is retained by the patient and one is posted out to bereaved relatives

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