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PROVIDE SIGNS, AUDIO MESSAGES, POSTERS TO BUILD EMPLOYEES' AWARENESS OF FUNCTIONAL Good handwashing Critical times to wash hands include: HANDWASHING technique i.e., wash • after you cough or sneeze FACILITIES WITH SOAP hands with soap and • before and after eating water for 20 seconds • after using the toilet AND SAFE WATER Not touching eyes, Cough and sneeze into a tissue nose, or mouth with or flexed elbow. Throw the Provide handwashing unwashed hands tissue into a waste bin facilities at all toilets and eating/food preparation areas Provide single-use CLEAN AND FUNCTIONAL TOILETS paper towels or air driers for Provide a sufficient number Ensure a continuous supply drying hands of functional and gender of anal cleansing materials separated toilet facilities i.e., toilet paper or water If water and soap are not available, provide alcohol Clean and disinfect Provide a discrete disposal based hand sanitiser with toilet facilities, at least mechanism for menstrual at least 60% alcohol daily or more regularly waste as well as soap and if heavily used water for washing WATER SAFETY CLEANING & DISINFECTION SOCIAL Make adequate quantities of Clean and disinfect surfaces and objects water available for hand daily e.g. handles, desks, tables, tools, DISTANCING washing, drinking and cleaning keyboards, sewing machines, sprayers, cutting sheers, trimmers, etc Treat drinking water if Increase the frequency of cleaning it is not safe to drink common areas, e.g., cantens/dinning rooms, meeting rooms Use social distancing Ensure cleaners have Personal Ensure that treated water floor markers to ensure Protective Equipment (PPE), disposal is safely stored in clean workers queue 2 metres method for PPE and cleaning agents and covered containers apart from each other effective at killing the COVID-19 virus while waiting for: • toilets Routine cleaning procedures Ensure there is a sufficient • drinking water are followed for water number of trained workers to • handwashing containers and tanks clean and disinfect facilities Provide enough drinking Provide additional waste cups so that workers do not bins with more frequent need to share rubbish collection WORKPLACE SAFETY FOR COVID-19.

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