Staff Handbook - Policies and Procedures

• people with cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma who are at any stage of treatment • people having immunotherapy or other continuing antibody treatments for cancer • people having other targeted cancer treatments which can affect the immune system, such as protein kinase inhibitors or PARP inhibitors • people who have had bone marrow or stem cell transplants in the last 6 months, or who are still taking immunosuppression drugs 3. People with severe respiratory conditions including all cystic fibrosis, severe asthma and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary (COPD). 4. People with rare diseases and inborn errors of metabolism that significantly increase the risk of infections (such as Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), homozygous sickle cell). 5. People on immunosuppression therapies sufficient to significantly increase risk of infection. 6. Women who are pregnant with significant heart disease, congenital or acquired. People who fall in this group should have been contacted to tell them they are clinically extremely vulnerable. Shielding means: 1. You do not leave your house. 2. You do not attend any gatherings. This includes gatherings of friends and families in private spaces, for example, family homes, weddings and religious services. 3. Strictly avoid contact with someone who is displaying symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19). These symptoms include high temperature and/or new and continuous cough. The Government is currently advising people to shield until the end of June and is regularly monitoring this position. The rest of your household do not need to start shielding themselves, but they should do what they can to support you in shielding and to carefully follow the government guidance. If working on domestic or healthcare premises where a person or persons are self-isolating or shielding It is prohibited to: - • enter the building or come within 2.0m • The management or client will notify the household or healthcare providers of the work taking place to enquire if anyone is self-isolating or shielding prior to attending site. Please make yourself known on arrival. Self-Isolating All employees should be advised that anyone who meets one or more of the following criteria should not travel to work: - • Vulnerable person (e.g. persons over 70 or with an underlying health condition such as a respiratory disease e.g. mild asthma or a weakened immune system or is pregnant). • Living with someone else who is showing symptoms of the virus. If so, they should stay away from work for 14 days from the first day of illness. (See below). Anyone who develops a high temperature or a persistent cough must stay at home until the symptoms have ended, and in all cases for at least seven days. Everyone else in the household must stay at home for at least 14 days after the first person’s symptoms appear, even if they themselves do not have symptoms. If anyone else develops symptoms during that time, that individual must stay home for an additional seven days from when they developed symptoms. Once seven days have passed and provided symptoms have ended, they no longer need to isolate. • High temperature. • Persistent cough.

Pandemic Policy: V5 24-06-24

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