Employers with 10 employees or less must take the following measures:
| (a) |
If the employer is permitted to recommence operations under the Regulations, it must develop a basic plan for the phasing in the return of its employees taking into account those that are able to work remotely and those over the age of 60 years or who have comorbidities; |
| (b) |
arrange the workplace to ensure that employees are at least one and half metres apart or, if not practicable, place physical barriers between them to prevent the possible transmission of the virus; |
| (c) |
ensure that employees that present with the symptoms set out in direction 6(1)(a) are not permitted to work; |
| (d) |
immediately contact the relevant provincial inspectorate26 for instruction and direct the employee to act in accordance with those instructions; |
| (e) |
provide cloth masks or require an employee to wear some form of cloth covering over their mouth and nose while at work; |
| (f) |
provide each employee with hand sanitizers, soap and clean water to wash their hands and disinfectants to disinfect their workstations; |
| (g) |
ensure that each employee while at work washes with soap and sanitizes their hands; |
| (h) |
ensure that their workstations are disinfected regularly; and |
| (i) |
take any other measures indicated by a risk assessment of the workplace, including such measures as are appropriate in direction 9(2), if the public has access to the workplace. |
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26 See the list of telephone numbers for provincial inspectorates in Annexure C.
National Small Business Act, 1996 (Act 102 of 1996)
