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COVID-19 Workplace Readiness Toolkit
As a medium to large sized business (especially business employing more than 10 employees), there are a host of regulatory compliance considerations to be taken into account, such as the adoption of a workplace plan.
On Sunday the 24th of May 2020, President Ramaphosa announced that the country will be moving to Alert level 3 in terms of the risk adjusted strategy for the resumption of economic activity during the COVID-19 state of national disaster.
Subject to exclusions in the updated regulations which we await, most businesses will be able to resume operations as of 1 June 2020.
As a medium to large sized business (especially business employing more than 10 employees), there are a host of regulatory compliance considerations to be taken into account, such as the adoption of a workplace plan.
You need to ensure that your workplace is safe, ready for operation and that you comply with the Disaster Management Act Regulations as well as the amendments and directives made in terms of the Hazardous Biological Agents Regulations in relation to COVID 19 (the C-19 Occupational Health and Safety Regulations governing the workplace).
Business owners will have to conduct adequate health and safety planning, undertake COVID 19 business and staff risk assessments and ensure that risk mitigation measures are identified, documented, communicated to workers through policies and executed by the appropriate person.
Your legal duties require the appointment of a compliance officer to maintain and monitor the application of measures identified in the risk assessments, that engineering controls are put in place and that administrative control measures such as remote working, social distancing, hygiene and safety and PPE policies are prepared and applied at the workplace.
To assist you in this endeavour, O’Reilly Law has prepared a suite of documents and templates, which include:
- COVID 19 WORKPLACE PLAN
- WORK FROM HOME POLICY
- PPE POLICY
- APPOINTMENT LETTERS
- RISK ASSESSMENTS FOR BUSINESS AND EMPLOYEES
- PHASED RETURN TO WORK SCHEDULE
- SCREENING REGISTERS
- PPE REGISTERS
- EMPLOYEE COMMUNICATION LETTERS and
- AWARENESS POSTERS
This is an adaptable, ready to use workplace readiness toolkit for your business.
Investing in the COVID-19 Workplace Readiness Toolkit will ensure that you have the foundational documents to enable organisational compliance with applicable laws and to assist you in making sure that your workplace is COVID- 19 READY.
For more info contact us at info@oreillylaw.co.za / alexis@oreillylaw.co.za.