Are you a building firm struggling to make sense of the hundreds of health and safety documents required on site – and at what point you should use them? Do you want to manage your health and safety better?

Do you wish there was some simple software that sorted it all out for you?

Well now there is. And it couldn’t be easier.

Welcome to our Covid-19 Health & Safety advice and support page for building firms where you’ll find website links and information from organisations involved, like HBXL, in supporting the construction industry during this really difficult period. It’s an evolving situation so keep checking in as we’ll update as new information becomes available.

We salute all the builders starting their ‘fightback’ to get their businesses up and running during the crisis! But many have questions about the measures they need to take to be Covid-19 secure. So to help we called in the big guns! Dave, our Health & Safety Consultant spoke to me for one of our Power Hour video chats. The tips and observations Dave provided were really useful.

This page covers Covid-19 specific Risk Assessments for builders, why you need to do them, what you need to think about, and how to complete them.

COVID-19 and hand tools are a dangerous combination. Think how easily the virus could be spread from one person to the next and the next… Want to know how often you should clean hand tools during the COVID-19 crisis? Here we outline best recommendations for a responsible cleaning regime and why you should have one. We have taken advice from our Health & Safety Consultant, UK government documents, the FMB, the Construction Leadership Council and a really detailed guide from the Infrastructure Health & Safety Association in Canada.

The government launched ‘Working safely during COVID-19 in construction and other outdoor work’ on 11th May 2020. Below you’ll find our version, concentrating purely on the building-site specific guidance.

We’ve broken down the government’s ‘Working safely during COVID-19 in construction and other outdoor work’ guidance released on 11th May in a separate article here. It’s a questions and answers layout – there’s a download of a 3-page quick guide, as well. Although of course there’s no substitute for looking at the full government guide which you’ll find here or producing a Covid-19 Risk Assessment.