Protective Screens Buyers Guide

How to Implement Social Distancing?

Whether your business has been open during lockdown, or your business is looking to reopen, one thing will be the same for everyone – safe social distancing measures are necessary.

Many businesses have adapted well to the current climate by changing working hours, offering staggered or flexible shift patterns, remote working, job sharing, or working with limited skeleton staff.

Not every premises will have the infrastructure or resources to distance desks or create a one-way system to prevent a cross over of staff and customers, so what else can you do to implement social distancing?

• Restrict the number of people in your premises at one time – this may require staff to man the door and head count as people enter and leave
• Hold virtual meetings and conferences to reduce contact and people visiting your premises
• Integrate an effective queuing system where customers and visitors can maintain the 2m social distancing rule
• Provide many reminders in and around your workplace – this can include floor stickers, posters, hanging signs, voice messages over a tannoy or speaker system
• Include hygiene stations around your premises - hand sanitising and hand wash stations are ideal for reminding people to maintain a level of cleanliness
• Create an entrance and exit to your workplace – this makes it easier to head count
• Provide protection barriers to limit staff and customer contact but still allow safe transaction to be completed
• Install sneeze screens to prevent airborne transmission of the virus
• Set up a strict an appointment schedule so there is no cross over of people attending appointments
• Consider restricting your services that may involve too much contact and providing alternative services that you did not prior to the coronavirus pandemic
• Adapt your business to the current climate so you can still operate but with minimal contact – this could be offering takeaways instead of restaurant dining
• Redesign your workspace – this can include moving desks, creating distancing between equipment, creating individual work areas
• Stop the use of communal facilities such as the office fridge, kettles and kitchenet areas to avoid cross contamination
• Stagger a return from furloughed leave to limit the number of people present in your workplace at any one time

What Types of Social Distancing Screens Are There?

We have a wide range of Perspex screens and acrylic glass screens in a choice of styles including freestanding screens, desk mounted dividers, frameless partitions, countertop barriers and desk guards, glass office pods, mobile dividing screens on wheels and many more.

Sneeze screens benefit from easy to clean, wipeable surfaces that can be regularly sanitised to maintain a hygienic workstation.

Offices, call centres and business premises need to think about how they will adapt their workspace to allow employees to return from furloughed leave and safely work in teams. Social distancing screens can be used to divide open plan offices, separate groups of tables, and segregate smaller areas for individuals to work.

Our COVID screens can be easily deployed with minimal installation allowing you to integrate safety and virus control measures quickly and effectively.

• Wipeable, hygienic protection barriers
• Integrates safe social distancing
• See-through vison panels that allow light & visibility
• Easy to sanitise glazed surfaces
• Acrylic, Perspex, toughened safety glass or plexiglass options
• Range of styles to suit any location
• Demountable screens - quick and easy to install
• Moveable screens that can change locations easily
• Freestanding, desk mounted and mobile options