Key Steps to Keep Safe When You Cannot Work From Home

Not everyone can work from home during the coronavirus pandemic.
Some employees must be onsite, and their employers are responsible for keeping them safe.

Many employers can’t implement remote work for all of their employees due to the lack of available infrastructure, the physical nature of some roles or union contracts.

Here are 9 tips to help employees perform critical roles while staying physically and mentally healthy:
9 Effective Social Distancing tips for Onsite Employees
  • Make space. On-site employees should follow the six-feet rule and all other CDC guidelines while in the workplace. Post reminders about the six-feet rule in areas where they work and congregate. 

  • Start a no-visitor policy. Only let authorized employees in the office. Employees who don’t need to be in the facility shouldn’t be permitted to drop in to pick up items, work for a short time or any other reason. Try to restrict deliveries from essential supplies to lunch drop-offs to a single entrance where necessary sanitizing can be done.

  • Meet remotely even onsite. When a group of onsite employees must meet have them use the same tools remote employees use to meet. Give them access to apps such as Zoom, Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting and Skype For Business. They can sit individually at their workstations, separate meeting rooms or outside to stay socially distanced while collaborating.

  • Schedule differently. Try flexible work hours and staggered or rotational shifts so fewer people are in the office at one time, yet the work gets accomplished. Use the time between shifts to sanitize workstations and communal areas.

  • Redesign workspace. Where possible, create partitions between employees. Raise cubicle walls. Add plexiglass dividers in common areas, such as the break room, so people can sit together (six feet apart, of course) and interact safely. In more open-space areas, such as manufacturing and warehousing facilities, mark six-foot positions with brightly colored duct tape so employees always have a sense of a safe distance to maintain from each other.


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Leaders must provide government recommended provisions, such as masks, sanitizers and personal protective equipment (PPE), as well as implement social distancing for the wellness and safety of on-site employees.

If you’re an industry in the middle, between the essentials, where it’s all-hands-on-deck, and the non-essential, where no one is permitted onsite, you must keep employees safe.

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