With the coronavirus outbreak continuing to evolve and spread, it is important for employers to consider additional measures to ensure that staff arriving for work are safe for work.

The main symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) are a high temperature, a new, continuous cough and a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste.

However, there are also additional symptoms being added to official guidance at all times, and it can be hard to know what the right questions are to ask your employees.

We’ve compiled some sample questions relating to the health of your workforce, to complement safeguarding measures already in place within your business, offering employers and employees extra peace of mind:

With the spread of infectious diseases at the forefront of the implementation of enhanced measures within the workplace, there is a real need to ensure that employees are symptom-free before they enter a place of work. Whilst employers are doing all they can to ensure staff are safe at work, until now, there has been no mechanism to check staff are safe to come into work.

Safety at the workplace is paramount, and simple additional measures before reaching the workplace, such as regular communication, wellness checks, symptom reporting, records of travel or of interaction with people that have contracted COVID-19, are integral to overall safeguarding.