Apr 8th, 2020
4 mins
Social distancing measures are steps you can take to reduce the social interaction between people in any environment. As a country, we all need to do what we can to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. That is why the government has given clear guidance on social distancing. This guidance is helping reduce the spread of the virus and reduce the mounting pressure on our National Health Service Logistics businesses play an important role in ensuring goods can get to where they are needed and they can continue to operate if they do so in accordance with the social distancing guidelines wherever possible.
Logistics businesses play an important role in ensuring goods can get to where they are needed, and they can continue to operate if they do so in accordance with the social distancing guidelines wherever possible.
Where it is not possible to follow the social distancing guidelines in full in relation to a particular activity, you should consider whether that activity needs to continue for the business to continue to operate, and, if so, take all the mitigating actions possible to reduce the risk of transmission between staff.
If a 2-metre distance cannot be maintained, staff should work side by side, or facing away from each other, rather than face to face if possible.
To protect your staff, you should remind colleagues daily to only come into work if they are well and no one in their household is self-isolating.
You should also put up signage and floor markings in the warehouse, encouraging a 2-metre distance from colleagues where it is at all feasible.
In addition, you should regularly encourage staff to wash their hands with soap and water as often as possible and for a minimum of 20 seconds every time.
To help with this, you should consider adding additional pop-up handwashing stations or facilities, providing soap, water and hand sanitiser.
You should still advise staff to keep 2 metres apart as much as possible.
To protect your staff, you should remind colleagues daily to only come into work if they are well and no one in their household is self-isolating.
The English government has since updated this guidance as from 11/05/2020 please see:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/working-safely-during-coronavirus-covid-19/vehicles
