Highbury Concrete is a construction contractor in the New York City area that focuses on concrete placement, among other specialties. Like many businesses in the construction industry, Highbury Concrete has developed a strategy for reducing the risk of its employees contracting COVID-19 through workplace distancing.
In New York, social distancing has resulted in the closure of most businesses outside of construction. Recently, even employers in construction are devising workplace distancing strategies so that construction workers are not working close to each other and spreading the virus.
While there is a need for construction, building luxury condos is not a pressing need, and with the rapid spread and contraction of the virus, many questions allowing construction on affordable housing. Instead, as of last week, the mayor was considering redefining what “essential” construction workers were and sending everyone else home.
One construction outfit has established standards that dictate how close workers can stand next to each other and have completely prohibited shared lunches. Another strategy adopted by this outfit was to alternate schedules. The workers’ shifts would be broken into two, allowing an hour for the site to be disinfected before the second shift begins their work.
Highbury Concrete has established protocols that would reduce the transmission of the virus. In addition to supplying workers with toolbox topics on how to remain healthy, routine meetings are held to keep workers abreast of information.
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