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COVID-19 precautions for fleet drivers
While office workers can often self- distance and work remotely in order to protect themselves and others from the coronavirus, this is not always possible for others, particularly fleet drivers. Fleet managers should instead develop a policy of what drivers need to do to protect themselves from being infected or unknowingly sharing the virus.
While a rigid policy of sanitising their hands every time one enters or leaves a building or comes into contact with another person is important, the managing director of MasterDrive, Eugene Herbert, explains why this alone may not be effective enough. “If you were to sanitise your hands in the car after an interaction with someone, by the time you do this, you could potentially have brought the virus into the car already.”
Ensuring your vehicle remains sanitised should be done in a number of steps:
Follow these tips to protect yourself as much as possible. “If everyone does as much as they can to reduce the spread of COVID-19, we can reduce the impact it can have on businesses and many lives,” says Hebert.