Returning To Work After Covid-19

[chrisuk013]

Are business' legally obliged to sanitise and clean workplaces before returning to work after Covid-19?


What I mean is, my work place has been closed since mid march and we are returning back in a week or two, so was wondering do business' in general have to follow any guidelines about employees returning to a sterile place of work.

[woofgang]

It will never ever be sterile. Health and Safety at work is the issue you want to address, also health and safety risk asessment. The legal obligation will be to ensure that the workplace is safe and that will include infection control.

[bednobs]

Wouldn't have thought so. The governmental probablyou have better things to do than pass emergency laws on how businesses should clean a desk!

[fiction-factory]

If it's been closed for some weeks the virus won't still be lurking on any surfaces or in the air, but regular appropriate cleaning will be highly advisable and deep cleans should be done if someone in work is tested positive. As woofgang says a full H&S assessment needs to be done before you return looking at social distancing cleaning, hand washing facilities, need for PPE if any, etc

[Mamyalynne]

Guidance here, click the link that fits your scenario.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/working-safely-during-coronavirus-covid-19

[mushroom25]

it's up to the company to risk assess its own situation and act accordingly. but on the practical level if there was any virus present at closure, it'll be long gone by now.

[Hopkirk]

The biggest risk would be legionnaires disease from the water system.

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