Back to Work Final

HEALTH & SAFETY AT WORK COVID SECURE STANDARDS: These are the legal requirements workplaces will need to meet in order to reopen. Part of the ‘Covid Secure Standards’ guidance requires employers with 50+ employees to produce a written risk assessment of working conditions for their staff, prior to re-opening. We have produced 3 documents for all staff and Partners: • Return to the Workplace Booklet • Covid-19 Return to Work Policy • Covid-19 Office Risk Assessment; what should be happening in your local office. Employers have a legal duty to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of their employees and anyone else who may be affected by the employer’s business. This includes conducting regular risk assessments to identify COVID-19-related risk and appropriate measures to control that risk and reviewing them on an ongoing basis.

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

Whilst none of these measures can completely eliminate the risk of Covid-19, we will do everything we reasonably and practicably can do to minimise that risk.

We recognise that the risk to people’s health from this pandemic are psychological as well as physical, particularly, anxiety about the ongoing health crisis. Before returning to the office employees and Partners will be briefed on the measures in place at their local office and everyone is encouraged to put forward suggestions, questions, concerns about any related matters to the Coronavirus support team; email to BAC Coronavirus Team.

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