Protecting your Employees

DRPG SET UP INHOUSE COVID TESTING CENTRE

Global creative communications agency DRPG have implemented new measures to ensure the safety of their team and visitors to their studio complex in Worcestershire. Working closely with BHA medical, Professor Richard Lyon and H&S specialist Alan Law Associates, DRPG have created an in-house COVID testing centre using government approved Antigen rapid tests giving results in just 15 minutes. Alan Law commented: “For many years DRPG has led the industry with their pro-active approach to event safety management, the opening up of DRPG’s on site COVID-19 Testing Centre is further evidence of this. In planning the Test Centre DRPG partnered with medical suppliers, Health Care Experts, H&S Advisors and rigorously applied all current UK.Gov guidance on the controls measures that need to be put in place to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission to the lowest possible level.” Dale Parmenter, group CEO, outlines why: “We encourage all those team who can work from home to do so. However, due to the nature of our work we need certain team members to be on site to run and maintain the 11 broadcast studios. We recognised the need for our clients to communicate is more important now than ever before so it’s imperative the studios are operational while also being safe. We have found visitors have been extremely cooperative, following the safety measures and now happy to take the COVID test. “Once face to face and hybrid meetings start again the testing process will be offered to clients for their delegates at venues globally. Having our crew fully trained in the safety procedures will allow us to be ahead of the game in ensuring all delegates, presenters and crew feel safe wherever the venue maybe. With the tests and now the vaccine we can finally see light at the end of the tunnel” says Parmenter.

www.drpgroup.com

COVID-19 SAFE COMMUNITIES PASSPORT

Sunshine Radio, partnering with CSC, is delighted to announce the launch of a pioneering new Covid-19 Safe Communities Passport. The CSC passport gives employers and HR departments the opportunity to access real-time data on their workforce’s COVID-19 test result status, enabling complete visibility of your workforce’s compliance with your COVID-19 testing protocol. The app reports on the results of the 15-minute Healgen rapid antigen test, one of only three government approved tests. With market leading >99% accuracy, their test is already deployed by governments globally, as well as professional sports teams, manufacturers, logistics specialists, cleaning companies, trade organisations and film productions. With a shelf life of 24 months, room temperature storage and no machine or lab required to process, the test is easy to use and simple to deploy. Use the code ‘Sunshine’ for a 10% members discount.

www.csctests.com

EMPLOYERS WITH 50 OR MORE STAFF ABLE TO SIGN UP TO RAPID TESTING TO PROTECT WORKFORCE

Businesses and public sector organisations are joining a government scheme to test workers without symptoms who cannot work from home. Around 1 in 3 people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and may be unknowingly spreading the virus. To help stop the virus spreading, the government is making millions of rapid test kits available to NHS and care home staff, primary care workers, schools, colleges and universities, as well as to all 314 local authorities in England via the community testing offer. To support this national effort, government departments are working in partnership with NHS Test and Trace to support businesses and public sector bodies to implement rapid testing, including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks, and the military. Companies interested in delivering workplace testing should email

P-and-PSector@dhsc.gov.uk

including “Register interest for National Worker Programme” in the subject line. This scheme is open until 31 March 2021.