Question: What can I do to make sure my employees are social distancing at Factories, plants or warehouses?

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Factories, plants and warehouses
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 Workplaces and workstations
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 and
canteens and similar settings. These are often the most challenging areas to
maintain social distancing.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Has detailed information about implementing social distancing at work.
this offers procedures that can be followed to help workers maintain social distance in many settings, and actions that employers can take to ensure they do.

Reviewer ratings:
Excellent
Excellent

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Factories, plants and warehouses
section_headers: 3. Social distancing at work
3.1 Coming to work and leaving work
section_content: Objective: To maintain social-distancing wherever possible, on arrival and
departure and to ensure handwashing upon arrival.
Steps that will usually be needed:


Staggering arrival and departure times at work to reduce crowding into and out of the workplace, taking account of the impact on those with protected characteristics.


Providing additional parking or facilities such as bike racks to help people walk, run, or cycle to work where possible.


Limiting passengers in corporate vehicles, for example, work minibuses. This could include leaving seats empty.


Reducing congestion, for example, by having more entry points to the workplace.


Using markings and introducing one-way flow at entry and exit points.


Providing handwashing facilities, or hand sanitiser where not possible, at entry and exit points.


Providing alternatives to touch-based security devices such as keypads.


Defining process alternatives for entry and exit points where appropriate, for example, deactivating pass readers at turnstiles in favour of showing a pass to security personnel at a distance.



Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Has detailed information about implementing and enforcing social distancing at work.
The information focuses on arrival and departure of workers and maintaining social distance, but does not discuss what to do to keep them apart while working.

Reviewer ratings:
Excellent
Could be Improved

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:
Lists specific steps that businesses can use to enforce social distancing.
There is a list of ways to ensure distancing while people are moving around the workplace, but not while they are working or stationary.

Reviewer ratings:
Excellent
Acceptable