Top Ways to Protect your Workplace from Coronavirus

The Novel Coronavirus is now a public health emergency of international concern.To protect your business and employees in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, you need to be willing to take some precautionary measures.

Here's our top tips for protecting the workplace and employees from spreading the virus. We have created a number of pre-designed signs to support workplaces and organisations who’d like to put up advice and notices regarding COVID-19. Use these Hygiene, Health and Safety templates to personalize Health Advice Signs and print them yourself using our free Design and Print software. 

Covid-19
Wash hands for 20 seconds

Encourage good hand washing

The government advice is to wash your hands with soap and water for a duration of 20 seconds especially after you have been in a public place, or after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing. If soap and water are not readily available, use a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol. Cover all surfaces of your hands and rub them together until they feel dry. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
Sneezing

Advice when Sneezing or Coughing

If you need to cough or sneeze, try to catch it in a tissue and then dispose of that tissue immediately
If you do not have a tissue to hand, catch the cough or sneeze in the crook of your arm, rather than your hands.
Office Cleaning

Up your cleaning regime

Routinely clean and disinfect all frequently touched surfaces in the work places such as desks, counter tops and door handles.
Be safe

Be Open and Honest

Communicate regularly with your teams. Be transparent about shared objectives and how you can work together to protect yourselves. Make sure you are open and honest about how everyone can work towards

  • Reducing the spread of the virus day to day
  • Protecting people who are at higher risk
  • Maintain business operations safely