WW2-style gas masks and surprise inspections: how to re-open Britain’s building sites – Telegraph.co.uk

Britains economy can only restart when bosses ensure their workers are safe.If they fail, they face another lockdown and risk their staff never coming back.

John Allan, chairman of Barratt Developments and president of the CBI, listed steps his business is taking to reopen, in an online presentation to the business groups members.

Step one: social distancing.If workers can be kept apart, they are less likely to spreadcoronavirus.

Barratts, which hopes to restart on some sites next week, will begin with just half the usual number of workers. It will stagger their shift patterns to avoid a surge at rush hour. And the shape of the sites will change.

We are going to widen walkways on our sites the safe walkways people can use to get from one part of the site to another, says Allan.

They are normally quite narrow, probably about a metre wide. We are going to widen those, and when that is not possible were going to put refuges, passing places, so that people can pass safely.

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