With the global rollout of the coronavirus vaccine gathering pace, in many jurisdictions, employers are being given more discretion to decide whether staff can and should return to the office. If your organisation has employees working from the office, you have a duty of care to your staff. Managers must ensure a safe working environment where employees’ health is protected.
This means they have to ensure they have a safe place to work, safe work equipment, their health is protected while working, and assess risks to their health and safety and take action to mitigate those risks. This includes protecting staff from COVID-19. Staff themselves have a responsibility to keep themselves and those around them safe and to learn the best ways to do that.
COVID-19: Social Distancing at Work specifically covers these topics. The course can be used as a standalone unit or as a unit within our standard OHS course.
Course topics:
- The importance of social distancing and how far employees need to be away from colleagues
- How to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the workplace
- When personal protective equipment (PPE) should be worn and what should be worn
- Guidance on when to wear face coverings
- How to travel safely and when employees should avoid travelling
- What staff should do if they have COVID-19 symptoms, either at home or at the office
Integrate your health and safety training with our centralised reporting tool
How do you make online health and safety training an experience that actually makes a difference in real-time? How can you easily gather data on your staff’s workstation as well as physical and mental health, especially when some may still be working from home, and others back in the office?
As part of our health and safety course, which can be adapted for working from home, users undertake a number of assessments related to their workstation setup. These immersive assessments can be integrated with our reporting tool, Omnitrack. Administrators can then collect rich, actionable data from their users while they complete these assessments.
