Chennai: The Adecco Group, Manpower Group, Gi Group and Randstad, the Indian operations of four leading global HR services companies have released ‘Safely Back To Work – Best Practices Handbook’.
It gives the following suggestions for those resuming operations amid Covid-19 outbreak:
Re-model the workplaces for greater spacing between employees to reduce the risk of infection, create visual cues such as markings or projections on the floors and interfaces to indicate safe distances for workers, use motion-control or touchless doors and interfaces throughout the workspace to minimize the risk of workers contacting a contaminated surface, leverage online channels to inform employees about the changes they can expect when returning to work, increase transparency and give clarity about the current situation and the way that it is handled through communication that is more frequent, stagger shifts and lunchtimes to minimise congestion on work premises, especially relevant if screening measures are introduced requiring more time to pass-through, separate the workplace into various zones with mandatory sanitization between each shift and recording of who is moving between each zone andidentify and isolate critical employee groups.