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IOSH & WTTC
RELEASE GUIDELINES FOR SAFE RETURN TO WORK Institution of Occupational Safety and Health and World Travel & Tourism Council release guidelines for safe return to work
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o help ensure the protection of both employees in Travel & Tourism and travellers, The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) and the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has signed a memorandum of collaboration and released a number of guides to enable businesses within the Travel & Tourism sector to return to work safely. The guides include Returning safely guide, Risk assessments 16
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guide, Covid-19 ergonomic factsheet, Maintaining good leadership principles factsheet, Mental health, and wellbeing – working from the home factsheet, Remote workers guide. As organisations within the Travel & Tourism sector seek to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, rebuilding consumer confidence through safety and health protocols in all tourism operations has emerged as one of the biggest priorities for WTTC, and the
wider sector. As the chartered body for occupational safety and health professionals and leading developer of safety and health training courses, IOSH is ideally placed to provide support in preventing accidents and ill-health in the sector. The memorandum was signed by IOSH Chief Executive, Bev Messinger, and WTTC President & CEO, Gloria Guevara on 29 September 2020 followed by a webinar on 30 September, where Bev
