France: COVID-19 – Plan to relax the lockdown – How should companies organise themselves?

Identify and prevent risks

• Update the single risk assessment document.
• Appoint a COVID-19 contact person, optional.
• Involve representative bodies and occupational health in all initiatives.
• Provide a protocol for the management of symptomatic people and their close contacts.

Organize work

• Favor working from home – strongly recommended.
• Reduce travel for work and meetings.
• Adapt partial activity, with the option to do so on an individual basis.
• Implement team rotation and different shift schedules.

Take special cases into account

• Employees who may be able to continue to work from home.
• Employees who are unwell or at risk, who have to use public transport or whose children will not be returning to school.
• Employees who have to travel for work.

Rethink the workspace

• Calculate the space that can be occupied within the company’s premises, four squared meters per employee.
• Reorganize open spaces and shared premises/offices.
• Restrict/regulate access to and the use of collective spaces.
• Manage the flow of people within the company, road markings, direction of circulation, etc.

Put health measures in place

• Display the government’s recommendations: barrier gestures and advice sheets for professional sectors.
• Put in place technical and organizational collective protection measures, see Rethink the workspace and Organise work.
• Otherwise, provide personal protective equipment, masks, alcohol gel, avoid gloves, and recall the instructions for use.
• Clean and disinfect company premises.

Temperature checks of all employees is not recommended and collective screening campaigns are prohibited.

Remain vigilant about the collection of personal data!