Attendance Advice: COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
*Advice for First Recruitment Group contractors.
Please read this article's guidance if you’ve been:
- invited to an interview
- when starting a new assignment
- or when you’re on an assignment with one of our clients
We ask that you follow the best practice personal hygiene standards outlined below.
General hygiene guidance
- Public Health England recommends that general cold and flu precautions are taken to help prevent people from catching and spreading COVID-19
- If you need to cough or sneeze, cover your mouth, ideally with a tissue or sleeve and avoid using your hands.
- Regularly wash your hands for at least 20 seconds using soap or use a gel hand sanitizer if this is not possible.
- Don’t shake or embrace when greeting one another
- If you make contact with shared surfaces including handles, buttons or equipment, try to avoid touching your face until you have opportunity to clean your hands.
- Avoid close contact with people, particularly with those who are unwell.
- Try to maintain at least 2 metres from other people.
The main symptoms associated with COVID-19 are fever OR sore throat/cough OR difficulty breathing
Before you arrive at our client’s office and/or work site
Even if you have NO symptoms
If you have been to one of the following places and returned on or after 19 February 2020 you should self-isolate and not attend:
- Wuhan City and Hubei Province
- Iran
- Daegu or Cheongdo (Republic of Korea)
- Any Italian town under containment measures.
Use the 111 online coronavirus service to find out what to do next or call NHS 111
If you DO have symptoms
If you have returned from one of the following countries in the last 14 days you should not attend.
- Cambodia
- China (except those areas mentioned above)
- Northern Italy (north of Pisa, outside of those towns under containment measures)
- Thailand
- Japan
- Laos
- Macau
- Myanmar
- Singapore
- Vietnam
- Republic of Korea
- Hong Kong
- Taiwan
- Malaysia
Use the 111 online coronavirus service to find out what to do next or call NHS 111.
If you are at one of our client’s offices and/or work places and feel unwell
If you become unwell in the office and have travelled to one of the affected countries above, you should try to move to an isolated area which is at least 2 metres away from other people (e.g. an available meeting room).
You should then call NHS 111 from your mobile and explain which country you have returned from in the last 14 days, outline your current symptoms and ask for advice.
We will review and update this in line with Government and World Health Organization guidance.
*Updated 10th March 2020