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1.1 Creating a COVID-safe workplace Key actions

The COVID-safe workplaces: Department of Health transition plan ensures Department of Health • Share the COVID-safe transition plan with
workplaces can adapt to the ongoing need for physical distancing and hygiene measures to actively your team.
control against the transmission of COVID-19. • Talk to your team to help them understand

Our transition to COVID-safe workplaces is an extension of the department’s COVID-19 response their role, your role and the department’s
role.
and is a key step towards our ‘new normal’ and will help define how we work in the future.
• Focus on creating solutions that support the
gradual return of your team members to the
workplace (principal place of work) and
Department responsibilities Line manager responsibilities Everyone’s responsibility leverage the benefits of working flexibly and
working from home.

• Clear signage to remind • Establishing a team roster or • Maintaining 1.5m of physical
employees about physical process where some employees distance (where possible), Further resources
distancing work in the workplace and including:
others work remotely - between employees
• Monitoring of floor occupancy • COVID-safe workplaces: Department of
and physical distancing practices • Staggering start and finish times seated at desks
for employees to manage risks - in communal areas (e.g. Health transition plan
• Increased cleaning practices, posed by commuting, high
especially of high touch points, traffic common areas or peak meeting rooms, kitchens, • Managing COVID-safe workplaces manager
availability of hand sanitisers times of the day bathrooms, lifts, foyers fact sheet
and cleaning products for staff and waiting areas) • Staying safe at work fact sheet
• Using technology to facilitate - at reception counters or
• Additional cleaning products meetings (e.g. Microsoft • Feeling safe at work fact sheet
provided for shared desks and Teams), allowing virtual team other areas where public
agile workspaces members to participate might visit • Real-time workforce tool for team
• Practicing good hygiene (e.g. schedules
• Balancing the needs of the regularly washing hands)
business, the team and the
individual • Staying home if you are unwell
or showing signs of illness
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