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ARTICLE · 03 FEBRUARY 2022

Updated Guidance On The Return To Workplaces: Maintaining Good Practice Is Key

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The Government has published updated guidance for employers and workers which sets out best practice for keeping workplaces safe now that a return to workplaces is underway.

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The Government has published updated guidance for employers and workers which sets out best practice for keeping workplaces safe now that a return to workplaces is underway. The "Transitional Protocol: Good Practice Guidance for Continuing to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19", which extensively revises the Work Safely Protocol and is now a guidance document, notes the easing of public health measures, while emphasising a continued focus on personal protective behaviours, based on individual and sectoral risk assessments, for the coming period.

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Many of the public health measures which were contained in the Work Safely Protocol remain but as recommendations of good practice for employers, in consultation with their workers, to consider maintaining, rather than as requirements. It states that employers, workers and/or their recognised Trade Union or other representatives need to continue to have regular engagement about COVID-19 infection prevention and

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