Question: What can business owners do to keep employees safe in warehouses and plants?

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Factories, plants and warehouses
section_headers: 4. Managing your customers, visitors and contractors
section_content: In this section

4.1 Manage contacts
4.2 Providing and explaining available guidance

4.1 Manage contacts
Objective: To minimise the number of unnecessary visits to factories, plants
and warehouses.
Steps that will usually be needed:


Encouraging visits via remote connection or remote working for visitors where this is an option.


Limiting the number of visitors at any one time.


Determining if schedules for essential services and contractor visits can be revised to reduce interaction and overlap between people, for example, carrying out services at night.


Maintaining a record of all visitors, if this is practical.


4.2 Providing and explaining available guidance
Objective: To make sure people understand what they need to do to maintain
safety.
Steps that will usually be needed:


Providing clear guidance on social-distancing and hygiene to people, for example, inbound delivery drivers or safety critical visitors, on arrival, for example, signage, visual aids, and before arrival, for example, by phone, on the website, by email.


Establishing host responsibilities relating to COVID-19, providing any necessary training for people who act as hosts for visitors.


Reviewing entry and exit routes for visitors and contractors to minimise contact with other people.


Coordinating and cooperating with other occupiers for those working in facilities shared with other businesses, including with landlords and other tenants.


*[COVID-19]: coronavirus

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
It covers only a couple of aspects of a safer work environment and how to achieve it.
This answer the question and give guidelines on how to ensure safety

Reviewer ratings:
Could be Improved
Acceptable

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Factories, plants and warehouses
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 radios or telephones, where permitted, and cleaning them between use.


Reducing job and equipment rotation.


Introducing more one-way flow through buildings.


Reducing maximum occupancy for lifts, providing hand sanitiser for the operation of lifts, and encouraging use of stairs wherever possible.


Making sure that people with disabilities are able to access lifts.


Reducing occupancy of vehicles used for onsite travel, for example, shuttle buses.


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



Example lift practices.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
It gives details on how to achieve a safer work environment and covers more than just a couple of aspects of what a business can do to make the workplace safer.
This is more about social distancing that ensure safety for plants

Reviewer ratings:
Excellent
Bad

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Factories, plants and warehouses
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 this 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:
Goes into great detail about how to reduce risk of infection in the workplace.
This answer the question directly, it also gives steps and guidelines to ensure safety

Reviewer ratings:
Excellent
Excellent