SINGAPORE: Customer-facing staff will get priority testing for COVID-19 as some sectors prepare to resume with more stringent measures, Trade and ...
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The Ministry of Health said on Saturday that companies must continue to allow staff to work from home wherever possible, enforce safe distancing among employees at the workplace, stagger working hours and break times and ensure no cross-deployment of staff across teams or worksites. "We have to put in place now at factories and companies safe distancing measures, safe rest areas, cohorting for business continuity, use of technology solutions to track and trace, and also to do the necessary testing for higher risk groups," he said.
The Government has said all residents and staff at nursing homes and other facilities serving the elderly"The other group of people we will be more concerned about will be frontline staff with a high degree of interaction with the public," Mr Chan said.Mr Chan said companies must advise workers to maintain separation beyond work"so that employees in different cohorts, shifts and work sites do not mix and interact outside work".
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