An engaging new animation that offers clear and practical advice to contractors and occupiers undertaking emergency domestic work has been issued by the Construction Industry Coronavirus (CICV) Forum, a group that brings together senior representatives from 16 of Scotland’s construction trade and professional associations, including SNIPEF and BESA Scotland. In simple and graphic form, the short film outlines the precautions and operate-at-distance policies which the Forum has issued as guidance in order to provide the maximum protection for both parties from potential COVID-19 transmission.
Entitled ‘In This Together’, the film has been put together in response to the recent Scottish Government instruction for all non-essential work to cease in order to provide parameters for essential emergencies which may arise. The animation advises that contractors:
- Use the CICV Forum template to communicate and plan work
- Check that no one in the work site has symptoms, and assure that contractors have no symptoms
- Stand two metres apart and don’t shake hands
- Wash hands during and after work, using their own towel
- Wipe down all tools and instruments.
Anne Vessey, head of the CICV Forum Communications Sub-Group, says: “It has become very clear that we will only beat this devastating virus by co-operating, and the different members of the Forum have come together in a remarkable way to support a sector which itself supports so many different trades and skills. This short film explains how we can all reduce risk of Coronavirus exposure when necessary emergency work or repairs have to be carried out in the confined spaces of the domestic environment.”
To view the film, please click here.
