Safety tips developers should follow for construction workers during corona outbreak
Construction workers don’t have the ability to work from home, but work can be resumed by meeting enhanced safety standards and health precautions at worksites.
The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting not only the way we live but our expectations for the future as well. Considering the current scenario, developers must operate safety measures. This guidance explains measures to help construction workers work safely and control the risks of the spread of COVID-19, for instance by putting in place social distancing measures, staggering shifts, providing additional handwashing facilities, and communicating with workers to help them stay safe.
Here are some of the safety tips to construction workers and developers:
Evaluating risk
As a developer, you must protect people from harm. This consists of taking reasonable steps to protect your workers and others from the coronavirus outbreak. The construction workers and developers must identify what work activity or situation might cause the transmission of the virus. Think about how likely it is that someone could be exposed. Act to remove the situation, or if this isn’t possible, control the risk.
Talking with your workers
To help you let workers know what they need to do to protect them, you must also decide how you will tell laborers who don’t understand English as it not their first language and others who may struggle with written and verbal communication.
Protecting workers at the construction site
Offer construction workers the safest available roles and maintain social distancing. Provide and encourage workers to use handwashing facilities, soaps, sanitizers, and facial masks. Reduce the number of people in the work area. Assign and keep laborers to shift teams. Workers must use these cleaning products on the tools they share. Follow the tool manufacturers’ recommendations for proper cleaning techniques.
Transportation
Mostly allow workers to stay at construction sites to avoid traveling, if possible. Discourage ride sharing to job sites and arrange pick and drop facility for them.
This was an overview of what you can do to keep workers and others safe in the current hazardous environment. To keep workers safe from COVID-19, limit or eliminate many face-to-face meetings by doing virtual communication. We hope that the present situation will get better soon.
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