What are the workplace implications? And knowing your ‘RPEs’ from your ‘FFFP3s’ Charles Durrant & Letitia Egan report
- Highlights some of the key health and safety obligations for employers during the pandemic .
- Guidance on how best to comply with HSE obligations in these uncertain times.
Despite WHO (World Health Organisation) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warning back on 4 March 2020 of a ‘rapidly depleting’ stock of gloves, medical masks, respirators, and hand sanitizer the situation continues to be a cause for real concern when it comes to frontline workers battling COVID-19.
Dr Rinesh Parmar, chair of the Doctors’ Association UK, told The Guardian last month that ‘the longer this epidemic goes on for, if doctors feel that there is a widespread lack of personal protective equipment [PPE], then some doctors may feel they have no choice but to give up the profession’.
While the need for those still working in a clinical environment to wear appropriate PPE may be
