• Infection Control

  Facing up to the changes in our lives

  Posted by Nigel Brown on 28 May 2020 at 7:27 am

  As companies around the world restart and attempt to get back to normality, they should now start making contingency plans for the future that will protect themselves and their staff.

  Communities and companies should be thinking about installing doors that don’t require grasping a handle to open and close them, toilet flush systems that are touch less, sanitising and not just surface cleaning schedules and office designs.

  Local authorities should now start to think about re-engineering traffic signals so pedestrians don’t have to push crosswalk buttons, public transport and ensuring hygiene is maintained to lower the risks of cross infections.

  Paid sick leave might become a necessity people working in almost all sectors. The old ways of thinking of continuing to work while feeling ill will no longer be seen as an act of admirable bulldog spirit, but instead will be seen as a threat to co-workers and the companies survival.
  

  Long term many companies will look to ways of reducing dependency of human, particularly in areas like food packaging, potentially replacing the humans for robots to ensure continuity of food production, in the same way the automobile industry has changed over the past decades.

  Changes will come, how we embrace and adapt to them in the short and long term will be the next real challenge.

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