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CHECKLIST:
What can I do to keep my workers safe at the
workplace and limit the spread of COVID-19?
swa.gov.au/coronavirus
1. Working from home
Consider relevant state or territory advice
and assess if working from home is
reasonably practicable for your workers.
Provide guidance to your workers on how
to set up a safe home work environment
(see, for example, SWA’s working from
home information and diagrams).
Require workers to complete a
self‑assessment checklist to ensure they
comply with good ergonomic practices
(an example is Comcare’s Working from
home checklist).
Appoint a contact person in your
business that workers can talk to about
anyconcerns.
Set up ways to communicate with workers
online (e.g. through Skype or Zoom) and
communicate with them daily.
Provide information to workers about the
supports available to them, for example
through an employee assistance program.
2. Physical distancing
Put up posters around the workplace
on keeping at least 1.5 metres distance
between everyone at the workplace.
Erect signs at the entrances to lifts and
meeting rooms to ensure the maximum
safe capacity is not exceeded.
Move work stations, desks and tables in
starooms further apart to comply with
social distancing.
If possible, bring in shift arrangements so
less sta are in the workplace at once.
Instruct workers to have meetings by
phone or online instead of in person.
If not possible, require they meet in a large
space and keep meetings short.
Review regular deliveries and request
contactless delivery. Check systems for
e‑invoicing are in place.
Provide social distancing markers on the
floor in areas where customers line up or
where workers perform tasks.
Nominate a person on the work floor
to be responsible for keeping everyone
the required 1.5 metre distance
apart in accordance with the latest
governmentrequirements.
3. Handwashing and hygiene
Have hand sanitiser stations at entry and
exit points and around the workplace.
Ensure bathrooms are well stocked with
hand wash and paper towel.
Put up posters with instructions on how to
hand wash/hand rub.
Instruct workers on other ways to limit
the spread of germs, including by not
touching their face, sneezing into their
elbow, and staying home if feeling sick.
Have automatic alerts set up on computer
systems to remind workers about washing
hands and not touching eyes, nose
andface
Instruct your workers to limit contact with
others– no shaking hands or touching
objects unless necessary.
If possible, accept only
cashlesstransactions.
Increase access to closed bins in
yourworkplace.
Put up signs to request customers only
touch objects they are going to buy.