Greening Offices Post COVID Brain Dump
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About:
Greening Your Office or Greening your Business
- in the context of UK Architectural, Interior Design Practice Post-COVID
Legislative Context:
- Health & Safety at Work Act
- Employee Right Act Section 44
- The Good Work Plan launched 6th April 2020
- Your Standards > Your Expectations > Policy > Procedure
- Fix the roof whilst the sun shines
Preparing Business Post-COVID
- Lockdown Rules Easing
- Duty of care to staff
- Reasonably Practicable
- Protect workers & others from:
- Health & Safety Legal obligation
- Wellbeing Policy carries over too
Taking care of business:
- Sitting comfortably
- ULD, Upper Limb Disorders,
- RSI Repetitive Strain Injury
- Variety is the spice of life
- Chairs: Back, neck, arms, feet
- Mouse and keyboards: hands, arms, shoulders, back
- Ergonomic adjustable chairs:
- set up specific to users geometry
- own chairs
- Agile working is not practical
- Electrical safety:
- Pat testing
- IT Support
- Helpdesk > remote fixing
- GDPR
- Information Security
- Data Shredding, 2 way cutting
Working from Home
- COVID-Secure
- Working in other peoples homes
- Your duties extend to the Employees Home work space
- Risk assessment essential
- Use a template
- Ask them to do it themselves
- Do it and review it
Working away from home/office
- COVID Contracts
- Mobile working
- Hot desking: No longer safe without proactive disinfection
- Lone Working:
- Safety: Especially Surveys
- Stress
- Remote supervision
- Occupational Travelling
- Driving: Insurance on their vehicles
- Public Transport risks
- Manual handling
- Cases and trunks
Returning to Work
- COVID-Secure
- Ventilation & Air con systems to be understood
- O&MM manuals?
- As Built systems
- Performance gap
- Appropriate filters
- Cleaning filters
- Reduced Recirculating Air
- Removal of aerosols from air
- Prevention of aerosols falling to surfaces
- Closing off moth-balling incompatible space?
- Returning to the Office
- Self-Isolating if symptoms arise
- Fundamentally important
- Vaccine passport
- ‘No-jab No-job’
- Social Distancing 2 m
- Spacing furniture or chairs
- Screening in close proximity
- Wearing masks
- Hand-sanitising stations
- Hand washing pre during and post COVID Pandemic
- Men in particular
- Almost disappearance of Flu
COVID-Secure
- Write your appropriate and competent policy then follow it
- Recognise its impossible to completely eliminate the risk
- Let everybody know that
- Introduce High Level Deep Cleaning regimes
- Ban Hot-Desking
- Ban Agile-Working
- Chair/Table Ergonomics in particular
- now COVID
- Stagger working or visiting hours
- Staff care due to early arrival and late departure hours
- No shared equipment
- Ban Pen sharing on reception desk
- iPad reception signing in
- challenge to keep it clean
- Circuitous routes/One ways/Use Different entrances
- social distancing
- Avoid impromptu meeting in corridors and stairs
- Consideration of Physical proximity
- Density: staff/m2
- Office Space
- Meeting rooms
- Kitchen dining spaces
- WC Facilities
- Social distancing in corridors
- Impromptu meeting spots
- Geometry:
- Anti-Proxemics
- Face to face barriers desks and reception
- Barriers between staff
- Circulation/Seating separation
- Maintaining acoustic contact, audio ability
- Seat spacing
- Kitchen queuing
- Density: staff/m2
Cleaning
- Introduce High Level Deep Cleaning regimes
- Briefing cleaning staff
- Increased frequency
- Contact points:
- Entrance door access control, keys, controls
- Lift call buttons,
- Handrails: stairs, landings, lift cabs
- Reception: furniture, visitor book, visitor badges,
- Invite sanitising: staff and visitors, arriving and leaving
- Office: Desk surfaces, height controls
- Light switches, Power switch,
- Keyboards, mouse, track-pad, touch screens, monitor, headphones, speakers
- Charger points: Chargers, transformers
- Kitchen: Equipment controls, taps, cupboards, cups, mugs, glasses
- WCs: door ironmongery, taps, flushes
- Meeting rooms: chairs, tables, surfaces, equipment,
- Virtual meetings: skype/zoom/teams calls, headphones, speakers, mouse, touch screens
- Virtual brainstorm platforms
© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
31st March 2021 – 2nd April 2021
See Also:
GBE Brain Dump
- Greening Offices Post COVID (Brain Dump) G#39335 (This page)
- Greening Offices UN SDG (Brain Dump) G#
- Greening Offices Biophilia (Brain Dump) G#
- Building Performance Aspects (Brain Dump) G#21255
- Blockchain Timber Chain of Custody (Brain Dump) G#20312
- Landscape Resource Efficiency (Brain Dump) G#643 N#665
- Product Data Golden Thread (Brain Dump) G#39241
Template
- GBE Brain Dump (Template) G#20308
GBE CPD
- Greening Offices Post COVID (CPD) G#39335 (This page)
- Greening Offices UN SDG (CPD) G#
- Greening Offices Biophilia (CPD) G#
- TGR Greening Offices (CPD) G#405 N#406
- Greening Your Own Office (CPD) G#261 N#262
GBE Issues
- Indoor Air Quality IAQ (Issue) G#1119 N#1135
- Biophilic Design (Issue) G#16587
© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
31st March 2021 – 2nd April 2021