Question: What considerations do managers of vehicle operators need to consider for their employees safety?

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Vehicles
section_headers: 7. Workforce management
7.3 Communications and training
section_content: In this section

7.1 Shift patterns and working groups
7.2 Work-related travel
7.3 Communications and training

7.3 Communications and training
7.3.1 Returning to work
Objective: To make sure all workers understand COVID-19 related safety
procedures.
Steps that will usually be needed:


Providing clear, consistent and regular communication to improve understanding and consistency of ways of working.


Engaging with workers and worker representatives through existing communication routes and worker representatives to explain and agree any changes in working arrangements.


Developing communication and training materials for workers prior to returning to site, especially around new procedures for arrival at work.


7.3.2 Ongoing communications and signage
Objective: To make sure all workers are kept up-to-date with how safety
measures are being implemented or updated.
Steps that will usually be needed:


Ongoing engagement with workers, including through trade unions or employee representative groups, to monitor and understand any unforeseen impacts of changes to working environments.


Awareness and focus on the importance of mental health at times of uncertainty. The government has published guidance on the mental health and wellbeing aspects of coronavirus.


Using simple, clear messaging to explain guidelines using images and clear language, with consideration of groups for which English may not be their first language.


Using visual communications, for example whiteboards or signage, to explain changes to schedules, breakdowns or materials shortages without the need for face-to-face communications.


Communicating approaches and operational procedures to suppliers, customers or trade bodies to help their adoption and share experience.


*[COVID-19]: coronavirus

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
This answer covers all the information needed to answer this question. This answer has step that involve returning to work as well as maintaining a working environment with links to outside sources
This is an excellent answer because it describes how employers can keep the workplace safe and stable when employees return to work during the pandemic. It provides a detailed list of procedures that should take place. Therefore, this answer does answer the question well.

Reviewer ratings:
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Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): safer transport guidance for operators
section_headers: Risk assessment
section_content: A risk assessment is about identifying sensible measures to control the risks
in your workplace and the service you provide. Your risk assessment will help
you decide whether you have addressed all necessary points. Review your risk
assessment regularly to ensure that it remains relevant and appropriate under
changing circumstances.
We recommend that your risk assessment identifies risks resulting from
coronavirus and that you use this guide to ensure that your risk assessment
addresses the risks of coronavirus. It will help inform your decisions and
control measures. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
(BEIS) also has guidance on how a coronavirus risk assessment can be
undertaken.
All existing non-coronavirus related health and safety requirements continue
to apply. The Health and Safety
Executive and other transport
regulators can help you comply with health and safety legislation.
Employers have a duty to consult employees on health and safety. Workers
should be involved in assessing workplace risks and the development and review
of workplace health and safety policies in partnership with the employer.
Employees should be encouraged to identify, speak up and feed back on risks
and control measures.
We recommend you consider the following when conducting a coronavirus risk
assessment:

Risks to workers, passengers, customers and the public, along with the control measures required.
The impact of control measures and whether they result in additional, different risks or non-compliance with other requirements (for example health and safety or equalities legislation).
Applying the hierarchy of controls set out in the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
Consultation with workers, or bodies representing workers, and the public.
The visibility of the results of any risk assessment.
Service providers have duties to ensure individuals with protected characteristics, for example disabled people, the elderly and pregnant women, are able to access transport networks. Individuals should be supported to comply with social distancing. All equality and discrimination law continues to apply. Organisations need to ensure that the actions taken as a result of the assessment do not disproportionately impact those with protected characteristics.

*[BEIS]: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
This answer is decent with the information that it has but this is more about risk consideration than step to prevent the spread
This is an acceptable answer because it describes how to safely bring back employees via risk assessment. It also describes how to conduct risk assessments. This can be used to answer the question.

Reviewer ratings:
Acceptable
Acceptable

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:
This answer is good and it cover step and guidelines on how to ensure safety for the employee and employer. This also gives an outline of what to do if you are exposed.
This is an excellent answer because it describes how people can keep their workplace safe while working during the pandemic. It describes actions both employers and employees can take at work, and how to limit COVID spreading. Therefore, this answers the question.

Reviewer ratings:
Excellent
Excellent