It’s vital for businesses and services to prepare for visitors or employees who show symptoms of COVID-19.

How do you protect them? what do you need?

According to the latest government information, if you have any of the main symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19), get a test as soon as possible. Stay at home until you get the result.

Main symptoms

The main symptoms of coronavirus are:

a high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you’ve noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal

Most people with coronavirus have at least 1 of these symptoms.

Use the NHS 111 online coronavirus service if:

you’re worried about your symptoms
you’re not sure what to do

Use the NHS 111 online coronavirus service

Call 111 if you cannot get help online. Do not go to places like a GP surgery, hospital or pharmacy.

Working on site

To keep employees and volunteers safe you should:

make sure on-site employees can spot symptoms
tell workers with symptoms to quarantine immediately
explain new procedure and provide training where necessary
consider the protected characteristics of your employees when making decisions, and to prevent discrimination

To support employees working remotely you should:

provide the right equipment for people to work from home
keep remote and on-site employees connected
send updates to employees when the situation changes
make sure you consider employees’ needs (you have a responsibility to prevent discrimination at work)
look after people’s mental health

Source: Gov.uk/coronavirus