Nation Safe Work Month
October is Safe Work Month, a time to make your commitment to improving safety and health in your workplace. For 2020 the theme for this year is Supporting Work Health and Safety through COVID-19.
In these unprecedented times, every business has had to adapt to new practices and procedures to reduce the risks and operate safely. At Perkins Builders, we have developed and implemented a range of initiatives to work consistently with the safety, social distancing, and hygiene measures that have been rolled out around the country.
We encourage our employees, subcontractors and all visitors to our sites and offices to have good hygiene; we have increased cleaning on every site and office (including deep cleans), we have increased the number of hand sanitising stations on site and have posters to educate on how to thoroughly wash and dry hands.
Perkins introduced physical distancing signs on all of our construction sites. These signs, custom made by our fabrication team in Bunbury, are made to size and clearly demonstrate the requirements.
In Western Australia, our restrictions have eased and life feels almost normal, but we must not become complacent. It is still important as ever to Support Work Health and Safety through COVID-19 and monitor our health.
At Perkins, we ask every employee and visitor to our sites and offices if they are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, if they have been, or have potentially been, exposed to a person who has been diagnosed with COVID-19 or is suspected to have COVID-19 (even if the person who is suspected to have COVID-19 has not yet been tested), or if they have undertaken any travel within the last 14 days. It is important to ask these questions to keep our workplace safe; Remember, if you feel unwell, stay at home and get tested.
Reach out to your friends, family and colleagues; stay connected even though you may be physically apart. A simple phone call or text message can all the difference.
No matter the industry, we all have a responsibility to create a safe workplace for everyone. We’re in this together.
