BCOHS member companies are considered essential businesses and have had employees working in our workplaces throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. We have also had many employees working from home and have deferred certain projects to limit the number of workers at our worksites. Throughout the pandemic and as we have started to bring workers back to our workplaces, our members have been working extremely hard to determine the best ways to keep their employees safe and have developed guidelines for what they have determined to be important measures and protocols to prevent spread of the virus in their workplaces. It has been a great help to have the guidance provided by the Ontario government for workplaces to develop a COVID-19 workplace safety plan and for sector-specific resources to prevent COVID-19 in the workplace. As we navigate the evolving challenges of the pandemic, our members have benefitted tremendously from the sharing and discussion among our network of H&S professionals during this time. We are all in this together – leverage your network and the guidance provided by the government to make all of our workplaces safe.
The key areas of focus have been:
Prepare the Workplace
Prepare Employees
Control Workplace Access
Cleaning & Disinfection
Maintain Physical Distancing
Masks when physical distancing difficult