Covid secure workplace: BSRIA Ventilation Verification

The purpose of this particular EHO visit was to investigate concerns raised in a customer complaint. "This limited health and safety investigation was not intended to reveal every contravention of the law, and failure to mention any aspects cannot be taken to imply full compliance with the law as I only focused on the topic related to the complaint." 

The assessment is looking at the efforts made by an organisation to comply with the ‘Working safely during COVID19 in Office and Contact Centres document”. EHO was very impressed with the approach taken towards creating a COVID secure office environment by undertaking a survey (11th August 2020) which assessed compliance with the above ‘Working Safely’ document. Employer has a duty to plan, organise, control, monitor and review health and safety arrangements. This includes devising and implementing control measures so far as is reasonably practicable, monitoring that they are observed by your employees, and reviewing their effectiveness. 

Employers must impress upon their workforce the requirement to comply with COVID secure measures which have been put in place for their wellbeing, and management must monitor and control this and lead by example. Failure to do this would mean that one positive COVID case in the workplace could rapidly spread throughout the workforce.

Each tenant demise should be treated as a support bubble with the aim to reduce time occupiers must spent outside their bubble to a minimum