To help combat the virus and minimise the impact it could have on their business, Emirates put several preventative measures into place. As well as having round-the-clock security and medical teams on the premises, strict social distancing measures have been introduced for all employees as they enter and work at the site.

Emirates have also bolstered anti viral efforts with a range of SHIELDme products as available from Covid Safe UK. With the introduction of sanitisation tunnels, all employees entering the premises are sprayed with high-level disinfectant and sanitiser. A 100% natural, non-irritant solution, the disinfectant spray kills 99.99% of viruses, including coronavirus, as well as bacteria, mould, fungi and spores.

In addition, Emirates has been carrying out 24/7 disinfection programs of their offices, plants and buses using SHIELDme’s disinfectant fogger. This allows users to sanitise surfaces at a range of 6-8 metres. Workers also have their temperature checked upon entry, allowing Emirates to identify those who potentially have the virus before they enter the workplace.

If you’d like to find out more about how your business could benefit from anti viral solutions from Covid Safe UK and bring your team back to work safely, get in touch today.

The post Case Study: Emirates Steel appeared first on COVID Safe UK.

Prior to the lockdown, Liverpool had one of the highest COVID-19 infection rates in the country (410.4 per 100,000 people as of 18-25 October). As a result, the city was seen as an ideal location to trial a community testing regime.

The community testing pilot, which commenced in early November, offered repeat COVID-19 tests to those who live and work in the city, irrespective of whether or not they had symptoms of the virus. While national advice is for people to get tests if they have Coronavirus symptoms, this trial aimed to reduce the spread by identifying people who were carrying COVID-19 but were asymptomatic and therefore would otherwise have been likely to unknowingly pass the virus on to others.

Anyone who came into contact with someone with symptoms was offered a rapid COVID-19 test every day for seven days and were not required to self-isolate unless they returned a positive result. This in turn relieved stress on the economy and people’s livelihoods, reducing the number of people who would need to take time off work in line with the 14-day self-isolation period.

The scheme appears to have been a success – in the government’s eyes at least. Liverpool dropped into tier two restrictions after the lockdown, making the city a bit of an anomaly in the region with much of the North West under tier three restrictions.

The key to a mass testing programme like this is speed – it can only be effective if positive cases are identified quickly to allow the appropriate action to be taken.

As such, Healgen lateral-flow tests were used. These rapid Covid tests can provide results in 15-30 minutes, eliminating time-consuming laboratory processing.

The UK government has gone on to spend more than £2bn on these tests, in the hope of replicating this model on a national level, should the rollout of a vaccine be unsuccessful.

If you’d like to find out more about rapid COVID-19 tests, get in touch with Covid Safe UK today.

The post How rapid tests led to reduced COVID-19 restrictions in Liverpool appeared first on COVID Safe UK.

Manufacturing and distribution businesses, particularly those working with food, have also needed to put protective measures into place. One such company to have done this is Oakland International, which provides chilled and ambient food distribution to the UK and Ireland’s most popular food retailers.

As COVID-19 thrives in chilled environments and can survive freezing temperatures, Oakland recognised the potential impact of the pandemic on food distribution and urgently sought a food-safe sanitising solution.

With the introduction of ShieldMe solutions, available through Covid Safe UK for sanitising surfaces; sanitising foggers which disinfect stock, vehicles, MHE and storage facilities; hand sanitiser dispensers and sanitisation tunnels, Oakland were able to minimise the risk of viral transmission throughout the delivery process in a food-safe, environmentally-friendly way.

‘We were impressed by the simplicity of the ShieldMe application methods and by the sanitising product itself which was the first one we discovered to have the Covid ‘Kill stamp approval’’, said Dean Attwell, co-founder and CEO of Oakland.

‘The product is far more pleasant for team members. With it being plant-based, no strong odours and non-alcoholic, the team’s reaction to the measures that we have employed alongside Trimite’s innovations in application technology has been extremely positive.’

If you’d like to find out more about creating a COVID-safe workplace, get in touch with us today.

The post Case Study: Oakland International appeared first on COVID Safe UK.