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<blockquote data-quote="Max68" data-source="post: 2297842" data-attributes="member: 521172"><p>Not sure that is a great comparison. As others have said when you sign up to any of those occupations there are known risks within the job. If you add Covid to the risks then I am sure employees in those occupations would be requesting certain assurances themselves and we are all aware of the NHS's own fight for PPE.</p><p></p><p>Examples of comparisons with regard to friends or family of mine are interesting - My brother in law works in a petrol station. He says he has seen thousands of people since he went back to work but freely admits that customers aren't in the shop long. Half of all customers wear masks even though they are mandatory and half don't. Staff have been told to keep a list of how many do and how many don't. He says they have a Perspex screen around the counter and have been provided with PPE if they want it.</p><p></p><p>My best friend works as a Manager in a Hire Shop. If anyone enters his office for a meeting they stay metres away. He has social distancing markers throughout and he has already had to have a word with a member of staff who got too close to a customer. He has an underlying condition so now works two days from home. They are all offered PPE.</p><p></p><p>Another friend works for a company that has reduced shift numbers to only three in a team rather than the usual number. They now work three days on, three days off in their small teams and they don't get close to each other. They are all offered PPE.</p><p></p><p>Someone else works for a company in an office and he has been told to work from home until the new year at the earliest.</p><p></p><p>My ex works as a receptionist in a hospital and is behind a Perspex screen and also wears a mask. Shift times have been shortened.</p><p></p><p>All of the above either use PPE or it is offered. They all either work from home or stringently social distance within the workplace.. When I go back to school I will not be offered PPE and it is impossible to social distance. The other big difference is that in the above contact with customers or patients are either behind Perspex screens and time spent in any vicinity with someone else will be short. Not the case in a school!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Max68, post: 2297842, member: 521172"] Not sure that is a great comparison. As others have said when you sign up to any of those occupations there are known risks within the job. If you add Covid to the risks then I am sure employees in those occupations would be requesting certain assurances themselves and we are all aware of the NHS's own fight for PPE. Examples of comparisons with regard to friends or family of mine are interesting - My brother in law works in a petrol station. He says he has seen thousands of people since he went back to work but freely admits that customers aren't in the shop long. Half of all customers wear masks even though they are mandatory and half don't. Staff have been told to keep a list of how many do and how many don't. He says they have a Perspex screen around the counter and have been provided with PPE if they want it. My best friend works as a Manager in a Hire Shop. If anyone enters his office for a meeting they stay metres away. He has social distancing markers throughout and he has already had to have a word with a member of staff who got too close to a customer. He has an underlying condition so now works two days from home. They are all offered PPE. Another friend works for a company that has reduced shift numbers to only three in a team rather than the usual number. They now work three days on, three days off in their small teams and they don't get close to each other. They are all offered PPE. Someone else works for a company in an office and he has been told to work from home until the new year at the earliest. My ex works as a receptionist in a hospital and is behind a Perspex screen and also wears a mask. Shift times have been shortened. All of the above either use PPE or it is offered. They all either work from home or stringently social distance within the workplace.. When I go back to school I will not be offered PPE and it is impossible to social distance. The other big difference is that in the above contact with customers or patients are either behind Perspex screens and time spent in any vicinity with someone else will be short. Not the case in a school! [/QUOTE]
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