Motion
- Motion title
- Safer Workplaces, Return to Workplaces and Long Covid
- Session
- 2021-2022
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 1 June 2022
- Status
- Remitted (not taken)
- Motion
- 28
- Motion text
Congress notes:
1. The Covid-19 pandemic is still a serious health and equality challenge world-wide, that Covid-19 can be transmitted easily in educational workplaces and further pandemics may occur;
2. Long Covid is a serious health issue for significant numbers of staff and students in post-16 education.
Congress calls on the Government to take necessary measures to stop the spread of future pandemics and a recurrence of Covid-19.
Congress calls on employers to:
a. provide FFP2/FFP3 masks to staff and students;
b. implement strategies to ensure clean air by installing air filtration units where necessary, and by prioritising good ventilation in building strategies;
c. include in building strategies provision of more spacious accommodation to allow social distancing;
d. provide hand sanitisers;
e. ensure that returns to the workplace take place in safe environments for students and staff;
f. develop comprehensive policies to support staff and students with Long Covid;
g. enable home-working and home-studying if future pandemics occur.
- Proposing body
- Yorkshire and Humberside regional committee
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Strategy and finance committee (SFC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2022/C/06-01/068/28