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GET READY TO COME TO UCP Our guide to keeping you safe on our Peterborough Campus Welcome Peterborough College Get Ready to Come to College Peterborough College Get Ready to Come to College Contents WELCOME CONTENTS

Keeping You Safe: Our 7 Point Plan...... 4

Your health, safety and wellbeing are our Moving Around Our Campuses...... 7 number one priority and we have been working hard to get our campuses ready Staying Safe On Campus...... 8 for you to safely come to us. Travel...... 10 We have put a number of safety and Keeping Safe Code of Conduct...... 11 social distancing measures in place to provide a safe and compliant environment and minimise the risk to you and your teachers.

You will find in the following pages the measures we have introduced that you need to be aware of.

2 3 Keeping You Safe: Our 7 Point Plan Peterborough College Get Ready to Come to College Peterborough College Get Ready to Come to College Keeping You Safe: Our 7 Point Plan

KEEPING YOU SAFE: MOVING AROUND OUR 7 POINT PLAN CAMPUS To help you move around our 3 buildings at a safe distance, we have introduced designated entrance points, one-way systems and clearly SOCIAL marked out our corridors. DISTANCING

All of our classrooms, We recognise that 1 workshops and social some people are not spaces have already yet confident being been arranged to make around others so we have sure we meet social introduced a wristband TWEAKED distancing guidelines. scheme. These can be requested by emailing TIMETABLES Face coverings will [email protected] who have to be worn when can asses your needs. We have tweaked our timetables, to avoid travelling on public 4 overcrowding in our entrances, cafés and If you see anyone with transport and moving a wristband on, please social spaces. around campus. We will respect their wishes and provide all student facing There will also be restrictions on how keep your distance. staff with reusable face many people can use facilities like the shields to be worn as an toilets at any one time. extra precaution when a 2m distance can’t be maintained.

SPACIOUS HAND CAMPUSES SANITISER No matter where you are in the campus, We are really lucky to have such spacious 5 2 you will never be far away from being campuses so that we can spread out and limit able to wash your hands and there will be the numbers of people in each space, ensuring sanitiser readily available. we can be together safely.

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MOVING AROUND EXTRA CLEANING OUR CAMPUSES 6 Our brilliant cleaning team always work hard to make sure our campus buildings One-way systems have been introduced across all our campuses are sparkly clean. They have taken this up and these routes are clearly signposted. a notch with a focus on extra cleaning and sanitisation of surfaces. • Please take the stairs if you • There will be a one-way can. Lifts are for essential use system for stairs which will be only and should only be used clearly marked. by one person at a time. If you need to use the lift with a • While it might take you longer carer or support worker, you to move around the building, can use the lift together. we have introduced these new REMINDERS routes for your protection. • Please stop and sanitise your Please make sure you follow We have introduced additional signs to hands before using the lift and the directional signage. remind everyone how they can do their bit to ensure you maintain social 7 help reduce the risk. distancing while waiting. This guide provides information on staying safe on campus before starting your course. EMERGENCY EVACUATION On your first day your lecturers will cover ‘Keeping You Safe’ as part of your induction. This will make sure we all understand what we If the evacuation alarm sounds, the need to do to keep ourselves and each other one way systems do not need to be safe. followed and you must make your way to the nearest emergency exit regardless of which direction it is. If you are unable to use the stairs, please make your way to the refuge points and call for assistance.

Preservation of life is more important than social distancing and your priority is to get out quickly and safely. However, please try wherever possible to maintain the social distancing measures as you leave the building and once you are at the assembly point.

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STAYING SAFE ON CAMPUS

STAYING SAFE IN CLASSROOMS To avoid overcrowding in social AND WORKSHOPS spaces at lunchtime, you can eat • Please don’t move any of the in classrooms. Please ensure you chairs, desks or equipment. maintain social distancing and tidy up after you have eaten. • We have arranged each classroom to ensure you can be You can bring to UCP your own taught safely and meet social packed lunch and you can also distancing measures. use the vending machines at all campuses but please remember • Choose your seat and stick with to sanitise your hands both before it. This will be your personally and after using them. allocated chair and desk. SOCIAL SPACES • Use your own equipment. Please don’t share any items You will be able to use the social like pens or paper with other spaces at break times, however students. there will be a reduced number RED BADGES SICKNESS PROCEDURES of tables and chairs to maintain We recognise that some students If you are ill and unable to come • Need to leave the room? Please social distancing measures. and staff will be anxious about into UCP, please report your let your lecturer know before returning to College. We will absence through the normal leaving. CLEANING implement a system of badges procedure by emailing your Our facilities team will be very • Need to sneeze or cough? Each which can be worn by any member lecturer or course leader and visible across the campus, with of staff or student who wish to contact the absence line on classroom will have a box of increased cleaning taking place. tissues, use them, bin it straight visually indicate to others to take 01733 762383. away and wash your hands. extra care around them. TOILET FACILITIES If you are offsite and have FOOD AND DRINK To help keep you safe, only a This might be because of their symptoms of COVID, you should limited number of people will be own health condition or because contact the Wellbeing Centre on Our Costa catering facilities will be able to use the toilets at any one they live with someone classed as 01733 762237. open and there will be additional time. There will be signage on the vulnerable or simply because they catering facilities at Peterborough toilet door to advise you of this. want additional protection. If you are on-site and feel unwell College. Students will be required Please check how many people and suspect you have symptoms to use the catering facility are in the toilet before entering. Badges can be requested by of COVID, please tell your lecturer located in their bubble and social emailing [email protected] straight away. distancing measures will be in place and increased cleaning will be undertaken.

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TRAVEL KEEPING SAFE CODE OF CONDUCT

I have read and understand that I will be required to adhere to the following:

I have read and understand I am aware that If a family the ‘Get Ready to Come to UCP member I live with, or someone If you travel to There will be bike Everyone travelling Our Guide to Keeping You Safe’ I have been in close contact UCP by car, storage available by bus or train booklet and will ensure I follow with, develops symptoms or the campus in the campus must wear some the guidelines. is diagnosed with COVID-19 car parks will car parks. After form of face I must not travel to UCP and be open. Please locking your bike covering. This can I understand that if I develop follow Government guidelines ensure you in the rack, please be as simple as a any symptoms of COVID-19 with regard to self-isolation maintain social make sure you use scarf or bandana whilst on site I must inform and testing. I must inform UCP distancing in the the hand sanitiser tied behind your UCP and immediately leave immediately. car parks. as soon as you head and it needs the campus. I should then come into the to cover your follow Government guidelines I am aware that I may be building. mouth and nose. regarding self-isolation and required to self-isolate if another testing. student that I have been in close contact with develops symptoms I am aware that if I experience or is diagnosed with COVID-19. Face coverings are now mandatory in all shops and on public transport symptoms which may indicate in England. The Government’s guidelines include exemptions for certain COVID-19 or am diagnosed with conditions and hidden disabilities, click here for more information. COVID-19 I must not travel to UCP and follow Government If you are exempt, have a hidden disability or have a good reason not guidelines regarding self- to wear a face covering please contact Student Support by emailing isolation and testing. I must [email protected] to request an exemption card. You will be required to inform UCP immediately. show this when travelling on transport and around campus.

We have been working closely with public transport companies who have published safety information on their websites with guidance on how to I understand and agree to my responsibilities and accept use the transport safely: that failure to comply with these rules and breach of the UCP behaviour policy will result in formal disciplinary action being You can also read the Government’s latest travel advice here. taken and may result in me being asked to leave UCP.

If you have queries or concerns about coming nto campus or any of the measures that we have introduced, please email [email protected]

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