Health and Safety - Covid 19 – How to manage
Principles of Prevention
To date, the Covid19 infection prevention guidelines to be put in place for proper corporate prevention cover various aspects, each requiring corrective or preventive action:
- Information to personnel and assumption of responsibility with self-certification
- Methods of access to the place of work: controls at the entrance to the company
- Access to external suppliers and visitors
- Cleaning and sanitation in the company
- Personal hygiene precautions to be taken in the company
- Personal protective equipment
- Management of common areas (canteen, locker rooms, smoking areas, drinks and/or snacks dispensers…)
- Company organization (shifts, travel and smart-work, rescheduling of production levels)
- Management of the entry-exit of the workers
- Internal displacements, meetings, internal events and training
- Management of a symptomatic case
Services for prevention by Covid 19
NEMOTEC, based on the experience gained in the management of Safety in the Workplace and application of Legislative Decree 81/08, is able to provide services to its customers in the field of Covid-19 prevention, with the following operational sequence:
Phase 1 - Company Inspections and Gap Analysis to Covid-19 Regulations
- Inspection of companies to verify the organization of work and the state of the working environment
- Verification of organization charts and job descriptions for the management of safety at work
- Analysis of company documents of Safety at Work
- Identification of technical corrective and preventive actions necessary to comply with Covid-19 regulations
These may include (non-exhaustive examples):
- re-organization of work spaces, desks and workstations
- re-organization of industrial plants and related workstations
- periodic sanitization of work environments
- supply of PPE or other technical fulfilments necessary for the respect of the procedures by the personnel
- others…
- Identification of corrective and preventive ORGANIZATIONAL actions necessary for compliance with Covid-19 regulations
Phase 2 - Document Support and Creation of "internal protocols" for Covid-19 prevention
- Drafting of company procedures for Covid-19 prevention, defined on the basis of the evidence found in phase 1.
- Integration of company procedures with those in force in the company regarding Safety at Work (DVR)
- Definition of control programs and implementation verification of what is indicated in the procedure and what is technically provided for in the Covid-19 prevention regulations.
The set of occupational safety procedures that have a consequence in Covid-19 management and the specific ones created in this phase of activity will constitute the so-called company “internal protocol” Covid-19 prevention, in fact an addendum to the DVR company under the responsibility of the Employer and the safety organization chart to date in the company.
Phase 3 - Inspections (internal or external)
- Verification visits regarding the implementation of technical measures foreseen by Covid-19 prevention regulations (identified in phase 1).
- Verification visits regarding the implementation of organizational measures and compliance with procedures (identified in phase 1 and described in phase 2).
- Preparation of verification reports indicating necessary preventive and corrective actions.