Question: What guidelines are available to enact social distancing at static or construction work to keep employees safe?

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Construction and other outdoor work
section_headers: 3. Social distancing at work
section_content: In this section

3.1 Coming to work and leaving work
3.2 Moving around buildings and worksites
3.3 Making the main workplace safe for people who work statically
3.4 Meetings
3.5 Common areas
3.6 Accidents, security and other incidents

Objective: To maintain 2m social distancing wherever possible, including while
arriving at and departing from work, while in work, and when travelling
between sites.
You must maintain social distancing in the workplace wherever possible.
Where the social distancing guidelines cannot be followed in full in relation
to a particular activity, businesses should consider whether that activity
needs to continue for the business to operate, and, if so, take all the
mitigating actions possible to reduce the risk of transmission between their
staff.
Mitigating actions include:

further increasing the frequency of hand washing and surface cleaning
keeping the activity time involved as short as possible
using screens or barriers to separate people from each other
using back-to-back or side-to-side working (rather than face-to-face) whenever possible
reducing the number of people each person has contact with by using ‘fixed teams or partnering’ (so each person works with only a few others)

Social distancing applies to all parts of a business, not just the place where
people spend most of their time, but also entrances and exits, break rooms,
canteens and similar settings. These are often the most challenging areas to
maintain social distancing.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
There is a decent amount of info here.  The information is specific to keeping workers safe.
There is good safety information, but it focuses on movement around the workplace and not static conditions or construction.

Reviewer ratings:
Acceptable
Could be Improved

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Construction and other outdoor work
section_headers: 3. Social distancing at work
3.3 Making the main workplace safe for people who work statically
section_content: Objective: To maintain social distancing between people who work in one place.
It is recognised that in outdoor workplaces it might be rare to have a fixed
or static place of work. However, there may be some situations where this is
the case.
For people who work in one place, workstations should allow them to maintain
social distancing wherever possible.
Workstations should be assigned to an individual as much as possible. If they
need to be shared, they should be shared by the smallest possible number of
people.
If it is not possible to keep workstations 2m apart then businesses should
consider whether that activity needs to continue for the business to operate,
and if so take all mitigating actions possible to reduce the risk of
transmission.
Steps that will usually be needed:


Changing layouts to allow people to work further apart from each other.


Only where it is not possible to move workstations further apart, arranging people to work side by side or facing away from each other rather than face-to-face.


Only where it is not possible to move workstations further apart, using screens to separate people from each other.


Using a consistent pairing system if people have to work in close proximity, for example, during two-person working, lifting or maintenance activities that cannot be redesigned.



Reviewer feedback on this answer:
The information here is general, but it is relevant.  It talks about how to keep workers safe.
This addresses safety protocol for both outdoor and static work.

Reviewer ratings:
Acceptable
Excellent

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Construction and other outdoor work
section_headers: 3. Social distancing at work
3.2 Moving around buildings and worksites
section_content: Objective: To maintain social distancing wherever possible, while people
travel through the workplace.
Steps that will usually be needed:


Reducing movement by discouraging non-essential trips within buildings and sites. For example, restricting access to some areas, encouraging use of telephones where permitted, and cleaning them between use.


Reducing job rotation and equipment rotation, for example, single tasks for the day.


Implementing one-way systems where possible on walkways around the workplace.


Using signage such as ground markings or being creative with other objects to mark out 2m to allow controlled flows of people moving throughout the site.


Reducing occupancy of vehicles used for onsite travel, for example, shuttle buses, and when needed, social distancing measures should be followed within the vehicles.


Separating sites into working zones to keep different groups of workers physically separated as much as practical.


Planning site access and ‘area of safety’ points to enable social distancing.


Reducing the number of people in attendance at site inductions and consider holding them outdoors wherever possible with social distancing.


Regulating use of high traffic areas including corridors, lifts, turnstiles and walkways to maintain social distancing.



Reviewer feedback on this answer:
There is a decent amount of information here.  The information is talking about how to keep workers safe.
there is general workplace information about social distancing and safety measures but it does not address static or construction work.

Reviewer ratings:
Acceptable
Could be Improved