This morning.
Health advisory posters at a building site in Dublin city centre,
Meanwhile…
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) will be able to shut down workplaces which do not comply with new safety protocols aimed at preventing the spread of Covid-19, the Minister for Business Heather Humphreys has warned.
Employers will have to ensure their employees answer a survey before they return to work, and confirm whether or not they have Covid-19 symptoms or if they have been in contact with someone displaying symptoms.
Workers will also have to undertake induction training to ensure they are up to speed with public health advice.
New return to work rules will see no handshaking or sharing of cups (irish Times)
Meanwhile…
#COVID19Ireland & immunity: NPHET advised the HSE on Friday that a person who has recovered and completed their 14 days of isolation is considered immune for three months. Small but interesting development, just clarified now via email from DOH. Will be under constant review.
— Mark_Coughlan (@Mark_Coughlan) May 11, 2020
Pix include the original model…nice touch. Sorry, not touch.
That guy on the right shouldn’t be in work in his condition.
Looks like a bad case of the colouredy squiggles.
Where are people sharing cups…
I know these two girls…
Here, we have a Broadsheet goblet, used by all.
charger salmon?
He carries his own hip flask.
Eminently wise
some workplaces have free coffee facilities which usually have a big batch of mugs that people can pick up and fill as they need; maybe that type of scenario is what they mean? not to say i wouldn’t rule out people being fairly blase with using other peoples’ cups in other workplaces
true; I was thinking more of a tin cup, chain gang-style scenario.
Employers will have to ensure their employees answer a survey before they return to work, and confirm whether or not they have Covid-19 symptoms or if they have been in contact with someone displaying symptoms.
Euronews said this was only for a period of three days but no mention of that in the IT?
It was on the front page on Saturday’s IT. I see that article has been updated since then so perhaps the 3 days was removed.
The official plan reads
“Employers Must:
– establish and issue a pre-return to work form for workers to complete at least 3 days in advance of the return to work”
https://dbei.gov.ie/en/Publications/Publication-files/Return-to-Work-Safely-Protocol.pdf
cos that’s what’s gonna kill this thing – a new form.
It reads to me as an insurance bottom-covering exercise. Some sort of “can’t blame the workplace for you getting Covid-19 from your workmate if your workmate signed a form saying they weren’t sick” thing.
Yea that’s what I thought too
the new normal will be you caught COVID yourself because you weren’t a lert – MMW
Savage header Broadsheet
immune for 3 months?
So do we need to have the vaccine every 3 months once it comes in?
If handshakes are banned then by the same token shouldn’t door handles be off-limits? Hey,,maybe that could be a solution to the unemployment crisis – A team of dedicated door-openers for every business. Toilets are another elephant in the room. All seems a bit absurd. More for optics than reality-based.
Italians have the right idea – bidets, and pedal-operated taps in public bathrooms.
Or, you know, you could wash your hands after you use the loo (and flush it). With water AND soap.
Reliant on the weakest links in the chain – if you wash your hands all nice and clean, and then have to touch the door handle after PooyHands McNoWash…
I’ve been in a few toilets where an elephant had clearly just vacated the room.
Shaking hands only really happens on the Southside, doesn’t it?
True: “Wharra ya lookin’ at” is unlikely to transmit a viral infection; injury perhaps though.
Why is construction allowed to continue on that place? What is it?