Question: What steps can be taken to keep lab workers safe when goods are brought on and off site?

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Labs and research facilities
section_headers: 5. Cleaning the workplace
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 on-site vehicles

5.1 Before reopening
Objective: To make sure that any site or location that has been closed or
partially operated is clean and ready to restart, including:

an assessment for all sites, or parts of sites, that have been closed, before restarting work
cleaning procedures and providing hand sanitiser, before restarting work

Steps that will usually be needed:


Checking whether you need to service or adjust ventilation systems, for example, so that they do not automatically reduce ventilation levels due to lower than normal occupancy levels.


Most air conditioning systems do not need adjustment, however where systems serve multiple buildings or you are unsure, advice should be sought from your heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) engineers or advisers.


Positive pressure systems and extractors can operate as normal.


Restarting and testing specialist equipment which may have been unused for a longer than usual period of time.


5.2 Keeping the workplace clean
Objective: To keep the workplace clean and prevent transmission by touching
contaminated surfaces.
Steps that will usually be needed:


Frequent cleaning of work areas and equipment between uses, using your usual cleaning products.


Determining the required cleaning process for expensive equipment that cannot be washed down, designing protection around machines and equipment.


Frequent cleaning of objects and surfaces that are touched regularly, such as door handles and testing surfaces and making sure there are adequate safe disposal arrangements.


Clearing workspaces and removing waste and belongings from the work area at the end of a shift.


If you are cleaning after a known or suspected case of COVID-19 then you refer to the guidance on cleaning in non-healthcare settings


5.3 Hygiene: handwashing, sanitation facilities and toilets
Objective: To help everyone keep good hygiene through the working day.
Steps that will usually be needed:


Using signs and posters to build awareness of good handwashing technique, the need to increase handwashing frequency, avoid touching your face and the need to cough or sneeze into your arm.


Providing regular reminders and signage to maintain hygiene standards.


Providing hand sanitiser in multiple locations in addition to washrooms.


Setting clear use and cleaning guidance for toilets to ensure they are kept clean and social-distancing is achieved as much as possible.


Enhancing cleaning for busy areas.


Providing more waste facilities and more frequent rubbish collection.


Providing hand drying facilities – either paper towels or electrical driers.


5.4 Changing rooms and showers
Objective: To minimise the risk of transmission in changing rooms and showers.
Steps that will usually be needed:


Where shower and changing facilities are required, setting clear use and cleaning guidance for showers, lockers and changing rooms to ensure they are kept clean and clear of personal items and that social distancing is achieved as much as possible.


Introducing enhanced cleaning of all facilities regularly during the day and at the end of the day.


5.5 Handling goods, merchandise and other materials, and on-site 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 material and equipment entering the site.


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


Cleaning procedures for vehicles.


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


Regular cleaning of vehicles that workers may take home.


Restricting non-business deliveries, for example, personal deliveries to workers.


[HVAC]: heating ventilation and air conditioning
  [COVID-19]: coronavirus

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Has detailed information about keeping workers safe, but doesn't address labs specifically.
This answer is acceptable but it buries the information requested in the question in a long article about various things. It should cut to section 5.5 immediately and offer the other information after.

Reviewer ratings:
Acceptable
Acceptable

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Labs and research facilities
section_headers: 8. Inbound and outbound goods
section_content: Objective: To maintain social-distancing and avoid surface transmission when
goods enter and leave the site.
Steps that will usually be needed:


Revising pick-up and drop-off collection points, procedures, signage and markings.


Minimising unnecessary contact at gatehouse security, yard and warehouse. For example, non-contact deliveries where the nature of the product allows for use of electronic pre-booking.


Considering methods to reduce frequency of deliveries, for example by ordering larger quantities less often.


Where possible and safe, having single workers load or unload vehicles.


Where possible, using the same pairs of people for loads where more than one is needed.


Enabling drivers to access welfare facilities when required, consistent with other guidance.


Encouraging drivers to stay in their vehicles where this does not compromise their safety and existing safe working practice, such as preventing drive-aways.



Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Has general information about safely returning to work, but doesn't address labs specifically.
This answer is great. It gives a specific list of things that can be done to make workers safer during deliveries. It is to the point and informative, not verbose.

Reviewer ratings:
Acceptable
Excellent

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Labs and research facilities
section_headers: 1. Thinking about risk
1.2 Sharing your risk assessment
section_content: You should share the results of your risk assessment with your workforce. If
possible, you should consider publishing the results on your website (and we
would expect all businesses with over 50 workers to do so). Below you will
find a notice you should display in your workplace to show you have followed
this guidance.
Staying COVID-19 Secure in
2020
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*[COVID-19]: coronavirus

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Recommends that workplaces conduct risk assessments, but doesn't have safety information or address labs specifically.
This response does not answer the question at all. It doesn't provide any specifics and doesn't really have information that helps answer the question.

Reviewer ratings:
Bad
Bad