Everyone who lives or works in Lambeth should take an enhanced Covid-19 test
Due to new cases of the South African variant of Covid-19, everyone in Lambeth should take a Covid-19 PCR test whether they have symptoms or not. This includes business owners and employees who travel to Lambeth to work.
We appreciate that it may take some time out of the working day to go out and get tested or pick up tests, and we’re grateful for your understanding.
The notices and guides are available as PDFs and Word Documents below. We hope that the notices will help you to keep your customers informed whilst maintaining a clean and professional look to your shop or takeaway front.
Printable social distancing notices for shopkeepers and takeaways
Checklist for business reopening
We have created a checklist for business to help you follow official Government advice. It is important that you make your premises Covid-19 secure to protect yourself, your staff and anyone entering your premises (e.g. customers, contractors, delivery staff etc).
The checklist is available in multiple languages below.
- English business reopening checklist
- Amharic business reopening checklist
- Arabic business reopening checklist
- French business reopening checklist
- Hindi business reopening checklist
- Italian business reopening checklist
- Pashto business reopening checklist
- Persian business reopening checklist
- Polish business reopening checklist
- Portuguese business reopening checklist
- Somali business reopening checklist
- Spanish business reopening checklist
- Tamil business reopening checklist
- Tigrinya business reopening checklist
- Urdu business reopening checklist
Risk assessment
As an employer, you must protect people from harm. This includes taking reasonable steps to protect your workers and others from Coronavirus. This is called Risk Assessment. This document will help you to ensure a safe working environment for staff and members of the public.
The checklist is available in multiple languages below.
- English risk assessment for businesses
- Amharic risk assessment for businesses
- Arabic risk assessment for businesses
- French risk assessment for businesses
- Hindi risk assessment for businesses
- Italian risk assessment for businesses
- Pashto risk assessment for businesses
- Persian risk assessment for businesses
- Polish risk assessment for businesses
- Portuguese risk assessment for businesses
- Somali risk assessment for businesses
- Spanish risk assessment for businesses
- Tigrinya risk assessment for businesses
- Tamil risk assessment for businesses
- Urdu risk assessment for businesses
The Health and Safety Executive, the independent regulator of health and safety, have produced lots of useful coronavirus guidance for businesses, including a risk assessment template which may be useful to larger businesses.
Guides on how to maintain social distancing for shops and takeaways
Other useful links
The Health and Safety Executive, the independent regulator of health and safety, have produced lots of useful coronavirus guidance for businesses.