About: Julia De-Vere

Protect vulnerable workers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic As an employer, you have a legal duty to protect workers from harm. You should make sure you consider the risk to workers who are particularly vulnerable to coronavirus (COVID-19) and put controls in place to reduce that risk. Supporting workers in higher-risk groups The Public Health…

Protecting Home Workers As an employer, you have the same health and safety responsibilities for home workers as for any other workers. When someone is working from home, permanently or temporarily, as an employer you should consider the following: How will you keep in touch with them? What work activity will they be doing and…

Construction and the COVID-19 test programme A London council wants construction workers to take part in its rapid COVID-19 test programme. Southwark Council has become one of the first local authorities to specifically name builders among those it is asking to take lateral flow tests in a bid to reduce the spread of coronavirus. Its website asks…

A Christmas Message from Safety Advisors The team at Safety Advisors would like to wish our Clients, Colleagues, Friends and their Families a safe and peaceful Christmas and hope that the New Year will bring Health, Happiness and Prosperity.