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Recording - Podcast series: Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) team address questions about COVID19 - UK

  • United Kingdom
  • Coronavirus - Webinars and podcasts
  • Employment law
  • Health and safety
  • Litigation and dispute management

10-11-2020

Episode 6 - COVID-19 webinar - The return of the Corona Cast discussing Lockdown 2 - November 9

What was initially labelled as a ‘softer’ lockdown is anything but, with a plethora of criminal offences for executives who flout the new rules. In the latest Corona Cast, Eversheds Sutherland’s lead partners in the safety space answer your questions about what you need to do to stay on the right side of the law. During this podcast our panel discussed:

  • What do the new Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 4) Regulations 2020 actually say is permitted?
  • Criminal offences for breaching the rules – who can be liable and what for?
  • What is the test for office workers to physically go to work?
  • Travelling to work – how much should employers do to plan?
  • Is wellbeing a reason to go to a place of work?
  • Risk Assessment – what is a suitable and sufficient risk assessment?
  • Wearing Masks in an office environment – necessary or a bridge too far?
  • The latest RIDDOR guidance – what do the stats say?
  • organisations doing?
  • Furlough rules – and will furlough be extended?
  • Horizon Scanning: issues in Safety and Employment

We were joined on this webinar by MD of Fortis Therapy and Psychotherapist Alexis Powell-Howard, to address mental health in lockdown and how to support our people.

Speakers:

Listen to the COVID-19 webinar - Discussing Lockdown 2

Episode 5 - COVID-19 webinar - Recover, Reset, Re-engage - Preparing to Return to Work  - May 11

Following the lockdown briefing by the Prime Minister on Sunday 10 May 2020, our Health, Safety and Employment clinic returned the following day to focus on the practical application of transitioning a workforce back into the workplace. This session was joint with Employment group and one of the speakers included Suzy Hardyman, General Counsel at VPS Group. This podcast particularly addressed:

  • Reasonable Practicability
  • Staffing ratios
  • RIDDOR reporting
  • Wearing masks
  • The shielded and the vulnerable
  • Disinfecting the workplace
  • Checking for fever and requiring a negative test
  • Emerging issues
  • Perspectives on disinfection, fever and temperature measurement 

Speakers:

Listen to the COVID-19 webinar - Recover, Reset, Re-engage - Preparing to Return to Work

Episode 4 - COVID-19 webinar - When does a pandemic crisis spell disaster? - May 4

Listen to the replay of Eversheds Sutherland's episode 4 podcast providing guidance on at what stage does the pandemic crisis spell disaster. Reputations will be made and lost during this crisis and a loss of trust now could be catastrophic for an organisation’s viability. In this session we considered how good communication and a ‘people-first’ strategy can help protect your company and its leaders in these turbulent times. This session was joint with Employment group and one of the speakers included Tim Toulmin Managing Director of Alder Consulting. This podcast particularly addressed:

  • Appropriate communication strategies;
  • Our Health and Safety partner looked at the ‘reasonable practicability’ for organisations working through the pandemic and the challenges they face; and
  • Our Employment Partner considered wrinkles in the furlough system now that it has gone live
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Episode 3 - COVID-19 webinar - Guidance on how viruses are spread - April 15

Listen to the replay of Eversheds Sutherland's episode 3 podcast providing guidance on how a virus is spread and what health and safety precautions to take during the pandemic. This session was joint with Employment group and one of the speakers included Professor Janet Brown, Academic Leader and Clinician Scientist. This podcast provided participants with guidance and advice on how viruses spread and particularly addressed:

  • The challenges facing the Coronial services and address health and safety queries;
  • Why the guidance is so specific on hand washing for 20 seconds and how the virus can remain on surfaces for days after an infected person spreads it; and
  • General COVID-19 health and safety and Employment questions.

Speakers:

Listen to the COVID-19 webinar providing guidance on how viruses are spread

Episode 2 - COVID-19 webinar - Working from home and mental health - March 31

Listen to the replay of Eversheds Sutherland's episode 2 podcast on working from home and mental health - challenges created by the pandemic. This session was joint with Employment group and one of the speakers included Alexis Powell-Howard, MD of Fortis Therapy. This podcast provided participants with guidance and advice on home and lone working and particularly addressed:

  • An closer focus on health and safety
  • How to surmount the mental health challenges
  • General COVID-19 health and safety and Employment questions

Speakers:

Listen to the COVID-19 webinar on working from home and mental health

Episode 1 - COVID-19 webinar for Health and Safety or HR professionals - March 24

Listen to a replay of Eversheds Sutherland‘s live video Q&A on COVID-19 and what to do in the current crisis for Health and Safety or HR professionals. This podcast is the first of our series which provided participants with the opportunity to ask questions to help address any legal and practical issues they have. This free clinic was joint with Litigation and Employment group and addressed the following topics:

  • Risk assessments and travel;
  • Employees with customer facing roles; and
  • High risk environments

Speakers:

Listen to the COVID-19 webinar for Health and Safety or HR professionals

For more information, please contact:

Paul Verrico, Partner

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