WASH (Workplace Assessment for Safety & Hygiene), a scheme by QCI, provides the companies / organizations to demonstrate relevant due diligence and preparedness of their workplace on Safety & Hygiene aspects, either before restarting the operations or during operations.
An organization is responsible for the occupational health and safety of workers and other stakeholders who can be affected by its activities during the COVID-19 pandemic situation. This responsibility includes promoting and protecting their physical and mental health.
The adoption of this National Protocol is intended to enable an organization to provide a safe and healthy workplace, prevent workrelated ill health, and continually improve its COVID-19 prevention and mitigation management system.
The purpose of this standard is to provide a framework for managing risks mainly related to safety and hygiene with a focus on COVID-19 pandemic. The aim and intended outcomes of this standard are to provide an objective assessment of the workplace and its operations to prevent safety and health related risks and hazards posed to the employees, visitors, customers, supply chain and other stakeholders as it is critically important for the organization to eliminate or minimize COVID-19 related Safety & Hygiene risks by taking effective preventive and protective measures.
Every effort has been made to ensure that the content of this standard is accurateat the time of publication.
The WASH standard document includes only Hygiene & Safety aspects with respect to COVID-19 pandemic and does not include requirements specific to other subjects, such as those for quality, social responsibility, environmental, security or financial management. This standard can be used by any organization/workplace, irrespective of type and size. This document contains requirements that can be used by an organization to implement a Safety & Hygiene management system and to assess its preparedness with respect to COVID-19 risks. An organization that wishes to demonstrate conformity to this standard, can do so by:
