Question: How can I reduce COVID transmission through workplace equipment?

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Restaurants offering takeaway or delivery
section_headers: 5. Cleaning the workplace
5.5 Handling goods, merchandise and other materials, and onsite vehicles
section_content: In this section

5.1 Before reopening
5.2 Keeping the workplace clean
5.3 Hygiene handwashing, sanitation facilities and toilets
5.4 Changing rooms and showers
5.5 Handling goods, merchandise and other materials, and onsite vehicles

5.5 Handling goods, merchandise and other materials, and onsite vehicles
Objective: To reduce transmission through contact with objects that come into
the workplace and vehicles at the worksite.
Steps that will usually be needed:


Cleaning procedures for goods and merchandise entering the site.


Cleaning procedures for the parts of shared equipment you touch after each use.


Encouraging increased handwashing and introducing more handwashing facilities for workers handling goods and merchandise, or providing hand sanitiser where this is not practical.


Regular cleaning of vehicles that workers may take home.


Enhanced handling procedures of laundry to prevent potential contamination of surrounding surfaces, to prevent raising dust or dispersing the virus.



Reviewer feedback on this answer:
This is a good answer.  It talks about keeping the workplace clean in order to stop the spread.
This response is on the right track in that it's talking about handling goods and merchandise but the question is talking about equipment so the focus needs to shift toward that

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Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Vehicles
section_headers: 1. Thinking about risk
1.1 Managing risk
section_content: Objective: To reduce risk to the lowest reasonably practicable level by taking
preventative measures, in order of priority
Employers have a duty to reduce workplace risk to the lowest reasonably
practicable level by taking preventative measures. Employers must work with
any other employers or contractors sharing the workplace so that everybody’s
health and safety is protected.
In the context of COVID-19 this means working through these steps in order:


In every workplace, increasing the frequency of handwashing and surface cleaning.


Businesses and workplaces should make every reasonable effort to enable working from home as a first option. Where working from home is not possible, workplaces should make every reasonable effort to comply with the social distancing guidelines set out by the government (keeping people 2m apart 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.   


Further mitigating actions include:  
– increasing the frequency of handwashing 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)

Finally, if people must work face-to-face for a sustained period with more than a small group of fixed partners, then you will need to assess whether the activity can safely go ahead. No one is obliged to work in an unsafe work environment.   

In your assessment you should have particular regard to whether the people
doing the work are especially vulnerable to COVID-19.
The recommendations in the rest of this document are ones you should consider
as you go through this process. You could also consider any advice that has
been produced specifically for your sector, for example by trade associations
or trades unions.
If you have not already done so, you should carry out an assessment of the
risks posed by COVID-19 in your workplace as soon as possible. If you are
currently operating, you are likely to have gone through a lot of this
thinking already. We recommend that you use this document to identify any
further improvements you should make.
*[COVID-19]: coronavirus

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
There is a good amount of information here.  It talks about stopping the spread at work by cleaning equipment.
This response is very detailed in how people should social distance, clean and wash hands but it doesn't make any mention of the equipment itself which is what the question was asking about

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Excellent
Could be Improved

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Staying safe outside your home
section_headers: Reduce the number of people you spend time with in a work setting
section_content: You can lower the risks of transmission in the workplace by reducing the
number of people you come into contact with regularly, where you can. Your
employer can support with this (where practical) by:

changing shift patterns and rotas to match you with the same team each time
splitting people into smaller, contained teams


Reviewer feedback on this answer:
The question is asking about how to keep workplace equipment safe and the response is talking about shifting employees workshifts. These are not the same thing. Bad answer
There could be more information, but it answers the question.  It talks about reducing the transmission in the workplace.

Reviewer ratings:
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Acceptable