Under the new normal period, employees of an organization are essential in providing a cognitively, physically, and emotionally safe atmosphere. In this crisis, a lot of people’s lives have been tested and impacted. Many people today are more conscious of social distance, personal hygiene, health, and the people they interact with. If they work from home, they also understand the importance of maintaining a safe and healthy workplace.

            Employees are aware that their workplace must be safe and healthy because they understand that this is an exceptional time. They also know that they must personally communicate with the maintenance and janitorial services group about their cleaning procedures to ensure the proper operation and maintenance of the office environment and equipment, ensuring a clean and safe working environment. Despite working from home, the staff are nevertheless required to come into the office two to three times per week to perform their regular duties because they are crucial to the operation of the school. Notwithstanding community quarantine measures like ECQ, MECQ, GCQ, and MGCQ, teachers and other staff members particularly need to feel comfortable working in this environment.

            The head of the school and the staff members must make sure that this will result in physical, mental, and emotional safety in the setting. For example, visitors who secure or retrieve modules for their children, such as parents, must be aware of precautions. You can inform them that handshakes, embraces, and beso-beso are absolutely forbidden. that they ought to always put on their face shields and masks. By putting safety precautions in place for their visitors during the pandemic, school administrators can fully control and monitor the situation on campus. Visitors to the workplace are also informed about the necessary precautions by signs relating to the corona virus. Also, it demonstrates how seriously the school administration takes the health and welfare of students entering the workforce, which ought to put them at ease. If a visitor has not yet received their vaccinations, they can ask family members who have finished their vaccinations to pick up and return the modules on their behalf. With all due respect, the school head must also request visitors to provide their vaccination certificate before entering the school.

      As people enter the workplace, they should maintain good hygiene by not touching their faces, wiping their workstations frequently, washing their hands frequently, using hand sanitizer, covering their lips when they cough or sneeze, and so on. Signage should at least solve the following problems:

            Not only does signage alert those entering the workplace about precautions they need to take. It also reinforces the fact that the school administrator and the staffs take the health and welfare of those entering the workplace seriously, and it should make them more comfortable emotionally. Not only does signage alert those entering the workplace about precautions they need to take.

Reference:

Rounds, D.X. Safe at Work: Creating Healthy Workplace During        Corona Virus Pandemic. http://www.facilitiescom>

By: JONATHAN B. BALDEO| HEAD TEACHER III| BATAAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL|BALANGA CITY, BATAAN